The European Union has funded a video about "citizens' observatories" in which appears CITI-SENSE, a project in which CREAL, an ISGlobal alliance research center, is involved. The idea of the project is that citizens become ‘observatories', thanks to new technologies.

CITI-SENSE will develop "citizens' observatories" to empower citizens to contribute to and participate in environmental governance, to enable them to support and influence community and societal priorities and associated decision making. CITI-SENSE will develop test, demonstrate and validate a community-based environmental monitoring and information system using innovative and novel Earth Observation applications.

The project will raise environmental awareness in citizens, raise user participation in societal environmental decisions and provide feedback on the impact that citizens had in decisions. It will address effective participation by citizens in environmental stewardship, based on broad stakeholder and user involvement in support of both community and policy priorities. The project aims to learn from citizen experience and perception and enable citizenship co-participation in community decision making and co-operative planning.