Citizen science as a form of social empowerment of youth and volunteers’ engagement in research in the context of mobilized economy of knowledge

Abstract

The article reflects the systematization of approaches to stimulating the participation of young people in scientific volunteering in an economy mobilized to produce and implement new knowledge and ensure the country’s leadership in global innovative growth. The needs of Russian society in involving young categories of the population in the implementation of citizen science have been studied within the framework of theoretical socioadministrative analysis and political economy. Open citizen science is based on the sociocultural regulation of the motives of young people to participate in national research projects, which makes it very important to systematize the motives and needs of young people to turn to citizen science. The article presents the results of a theoretical analysis of the motivation for the participation of young citizens in scientific projects, based on the analysis of the case study and secondary research, the main recommendations for organizing and stimulating the involvement of young people in citizen science are formulated. The article presents the specifics and requirements of the mobilization economy for the branches of knowledge production; the tasks of involving citizens in scientific projects are formulated; the essential characteristics of open science, citizen science are determined; the main approaches to attracting young categories of the population as volunteers in research activities based on their motivation are identified. The article also provides some practical recommendations on the use of managerial tools to stimulate youth participation in citizen science. Formed approaches to the motivation of young people’s participation in research activities.