Chiara Certomà is assistant professor of socio-political geography establishing the trans-sectoral research team “Geo&theSea”, while leading national and international projects on civic participation in knowledge-production, planning and decision-making, grassroot innovation for just sustainability. With overly twenty years of experience in participatory methods and more than 30 papers and books authored, she is now action-researching in marine social science and cultural geography of the ocean. Amongst the other, she has and is leading the EU-funded research projects “Participatory Art for society engagement with Ocean and Water (PartArt4OW)”, “FishArt. Participatory Art for the Fishermen’Harbour in Anzio, Italy” and “SeaPaCS. Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution” that has been awarded the EU Citizen Science-Diversity and Collaboration award in 2024.Info at https://crowdusg.net/