Boosting the social impact of the CREDO project" is a dual scientific-educational effort aimed at increasing social engagement for detection and analysis of cosmic ray signals. This is particularly important because contrary to conventional scientific infrastructures designed for and operated by specialists, CREDO operates in the form of a citizen science project where the involvement of a general audience like students, teachers, science enthusiasts, and NGOs is not only welcome but essential for project success. Engaging social media, blogosphere, and direct contacts are means to this end.

1. Development and strengthening the collaboration with high schools and possibly elementary schools by developing and offering to school teachers the high quality teaching materials involving CREDO and developing long-term collaboration programs.
2. Organization of visits in schools, inviting teachers and students to participate in educational events specifically organized for this purpose. This will enable us to engage increased numbers of young people with interests in science.
3. Integration of the CREDO data resources with the Linked Open Data network, which is the current standard for open data publishing and which should help to increase the outreach. This will provide wider availability and visibility of CREDO data gathered from the cosmic ray measurement and stored on CREDO servers.
4. Further improvement of public engagement not only in cosmic ray measurement activities but also in data analysis tasks by exploring the integration of CREDO infrastructure with popular existing citizen science platform such as BOINC and SciStarter.
5. During the project we plan to explore the possibility to employ cryptocurrency technology to be able to generate digital tokens from CREDO actions which will be awarded as a reward for the action.
6. Finally, we will also be actively seeking potential industrial partners and we will look into ways how to generate business opportunities for potential partners within the CREDO ecosystem.

Implementation period: 01/02/2023–31/07/2024

This project is generously supported by the Visegrad Fund under grant number 22220116 - See a short video about this fund.