SciStarter Australia

SciStarter Australia is integrated with the larger international SciStarter platform. Australia-based projects submitted to scistarter.com will flow through to SciStarter Australia. Each project submitted to SciStarter Australia is reviewed by a member of our team for accuracy and completeness before it is made public. We do not include commercialised projects, fundraisers, or similar, but we do use a very wide definition of citizen or community science when considering projects for inclusion.

If your citizen science project is not listed here and you wish to add it, please visit https://scistarter.org/add-project.

Each year we ask project leaders to update their project pages or change the status to “completed.” Completed records still appear to the public which allows us to track project progress over time, but they have a red sign that says “this project is complete.”

We strongly encourage all environmental citizen science projects to use BioCollect for scientific data collection purposes. Centralised databases such as BioCollect are vital to the aims of citizen science. Click here to learn about BioCollect.

See this blog post for tips and best practices on crafting your SciStarter entry.

We encourage project leaders to consult the 10 Principles of Citizen Science for a best practice guide to conducting citizen science projects.

SciStarter Australia encourages all projects to ensure that their processes align with the FAIR Principles for Scientific Data and Stewardship and the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance.

Projects based in Australia must be compliant with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2023), the AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research, the Australian Code for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes, and any other relevant local, state, or national ethics guidelines and regulations.