In order to engage the public in science and design effective citizen science projects, it is important to understand the main motivations that drive individuals to engage in research. The paper "The motivation for citizens' involvement in life sciences research is predicted by age and gender by the ORION partners CEITEC, CRG and VA was published on 3 August in in PLOSONE. The findings are based on the ORION study "Public attitudes to life sciences research in six European countries which was designed to map citizens'' expectations regarding science to inform and support research organisations on how to engage with the general public.
Data Availability Statement: The full, anonymized dataset has been uploaded to the Zenodo repository under the title of this paper.