EXAMPLE: Do you already organize a canoe trip down a river? Together, let us distribute the scientific canoe river descent version, with non-invasive monitoring of beavers and dragonfly populations.

 35 years after its creation, OSI is scaling up to a new level with its partners

For many years, in order to make these impossible projects possible on a daily basis, Objectif Sciences International had to help build almost the entire chain needed for true Participatory Science trips to exist: scientific projects, teams, pedagogy, organization of stays, logistics, participant recruitment, relations with territories and international development.

Today, the landscape has changed profoundly.

Thousands of actors now know how to organize the various components of these experiences excellently.

• Agencies and tour operators know how to produce trips.
• Associations and youth organizations know how to supervise audiences.
• Universities and laboratories have research questions.
• NGOs and field organizations know their territories.
• Parks, reserves and local authorities have exceptional sites.
• Accommodation providers know how to welcome groups.
• Guides and local operators master the field.
• Schools and training organizations mobilize their audiences.
• Companies, foundations and institutions can contribute to funding and scaling up.

OSI’s mission can therefore evolve with all these actors.

Rather than continuing to do what its partners are now very good at doing, OSI is now focusing on strengthening, connecting, qualifying and giving visibility to all these capacities.

This is the role of the Objectif Sciences International Resource Platform.

 You organize, and OSI provides the shared infrastructure.

You remain the Organizer of your operation.

You retain your identity, your teams, your profession, your expertise, your local presence, your suppliers, your partners and your way of operating.

The Objectif Sciences International Scientific Expeditions Platform intervenes where pooling genuinely brings value:

• scientific structuring,
• Participatory Science and Research engineering,
• monitoring of the real research carried out during your operations,
• project-based pedagogy,
• proven methodologies, reference frameworks and quality standards,
• scientific preparation of operations,
• continuity before, during and after the fieldwork,
• documentation and promotion of results,
• relations with scientific partners,
• community of practice, shared tools,
• visibility within the OSI catalog,
• use of the 35^th anniversary brand of the Objectif Sciences International Scientific Expeditions
• UN status, Major Stakeholder of UNEP, UN-Habitat, UNESCO, etc.,
• international institutional environment,
• connections with other Organizers and territories,
• opportunities for cooperation and scaling up,
• funding engineering and connection with partners,
• support in creating new offers,
• access to philanthropic and tax mechanisms that can be mobilized around the operations, such as tax reductions for travelers who take part as volunteers in your missions.

The ambition is therefore to enable more competent actors to work together, within a shared framework solid enough to grow Participatory Science and Research all over the world.

 Four major Product Departments

The operations you can propose may notably join one of Objectif Sciences International’s four major Product Departments:

• Trips for Children, Teenagers, Families
  Scientific stays, camps, language stays, family trips, nature, biodiversity, climate, technology, astronomy or other discipline programs enabling participants to contribute to genuine scientific processes.

• Adult Trips
  Scientific trips, expeditions, participatory missions, thematic stays, field programs, individual trips or organized groups combining experience, discovery, research and impact.

• School Trips
  Scientific discovery classes, school trips, field missions, multi-year programs, school projects and experiences enabling students to genuinely contribute to a scientific process.

• OSI scientific and technical training courses
  Training courses directly linked to scientific disciplines, protocols, field techniques, instruments, observation methods, data collection and production needed for Participatory Research Participatory Research see : http://www.voyages-scientifiques.com Programs.

 You can come with an operation that is already ready… or simply with capacity

It is not at all necessary to have already created an “OSI Scientific Expedition.”

You simply need to propose to us:

• a trip or tour that you already market,
• an existing stay,
• an adventure, a route, a destination,
• accommodation, a residential center,
• an educational team, guides or field teams,
• a class or a network of schools,
• a group of participants,
• an expedition, a boat or means of transport,
• a park, a reserve or a territory,
• a laboratory or scientific program,
• a research question, scientific equipment,
• an educational activity,
• a marketing capacity,
• a distribution network,
• local expertise,
• logistical capacity,
• or simply an excellent idea that you know how to make possible.

The Objectif Sciences International Scientific Expeditions platform is designed to connect capacities with one another that might otherwise never have met... and to multiply your travelers and your stays.

 An open platform

This opportunity is intended for all Organizers capable of directly carrying an operation or entering into partnership alongside it:

• tour operators and travel agencies,
• incoming agencies and DMCs,
• educational and youth organizations,
• associations and NGOs,
• universities,
• laboratories and research organizations,
• schools and universities,
• national and natural parks,
• reserves and protected areas,
• local authorities and governments,
• tourism offices and destination organizations,
• residential centers and accommodation providers,
• guides and field operators,
• boats and maritime operators,
• transport and logistics actors,
• site owners or managers,
• providers of scientific material and equipment,
• companies, foundations, funders,
• professional networks,
• international organizations,
• and more generally any organization with a capacity useful to a Participatory Science operation.

A single operation can thus bring together several complementary partners without requiring each one to become a specialist in the others’ professions.

 What the Organizer gains by joining the platform

For an Organizer, joining the OSI catalog does not simply mean adding a logo to a web page.

It means being able to place their operation within an already established international infrastructure.

In concrete terms, depending on the projects, this can bring:

• A recognized shared identity
  Your operation joins the history and universe of OSI Scientific Expeditions, developed over more than three decades.

• A demanding scientific framework
  Each project can be connected to a genuine scientific question, a research program or a documented need.

• Participatory Research Participatory Research see : http://www.voyages-scientifiques.com engineering
  OSI helps articulate the scientific question, citizens, protocol, data quality, pedagogy, impact and program continuity.

• An upgrade of your products
  An existing stay can become a more distinctive, more useful and stronger experience for its participants.

• New audiences
  Families, children, teenagers, adults, school groups, students, organized groups, companies, associations or other communities can be reached depending on the program.

• New referral partners
  Schools, universities, local authorities, companies, NGOs, foundations, institutions or networks can become partners or clients of the operations.

• Better use of your existing capacities
  Teams, accommodation, boats, vehicles, sites, laboratories, guides and equipment can host new operations or be better used outside the high season.

• New revenue opportunities
  New sessions, new groups, new destinations, scientific or logistical services and the annual renewal of programs can create additional activity.

• Visibility in an international catalog
  Your operations can be presented to audiences specifically looking for scientific and participatory trips and stays.

• A scientific and institutional network
  Your project can connect with scientists, universities, NGOs, territories and other partners present in the ecosystem.

• Scientific continuity before and after the trip
  Participant preparation, data collection, documentation, transfer, analysis and restitution can be articulated within a single system.

• Shared tools and methods
  You benefit from building blocks that would be long and costly to rebuild alone.

• A community of practice
  Organizers can learn from one another, share methods and develop joint operations.

• A capacity for scaling up
  The same scientific program can gradually be deployed across several dates, several territories or with several Organizers.

• Connections with funding opportunities
  Depending on the projects: scientific funding, patronage, foundations, territorial partnerships, companies or philanthropic mechanisms.

• Mechanisms enabling some participants to finance their departure differently
  When the applicable legal and tax conditions are met, certain operations can be articulated with donation, patronage or tax incentive mechanisms.

 And what you retain

Your profession.

• A travel Organizer remains a travel organizer.
• A laboratory remains responsible for its research.
• An NGO retains its mission.
• A territory retains its public policies.
• An accommodation provider remains an accommodation provider.
• A guide remains a specialist in their field.

The platform is there to make these skills work together without confusing them.

Each Organizer remains responsible in particular for their organization, teams, contracts, logistics, insurance, safety, suppliers and the obligations related to their activity.

OSI provides the shared architecture enabling this diversity of actors to jointly produce coherent Participatory Science and Research operations.

 You already have everything you need to begin

You do not need to send us a complete file immediately.

A few minutes are enough.

Simply tell us:

• who you are,
• where you can operate,
• the audiences you work with,
• the capacities you already have,
• and the first activity, destination, operation, site or idea that you would like to propose.

We can then identify with you the possible connections with:

• the OSI Product Departments
  • Children/Teenagers/Families,
  • Adults,
  • School Trips,
  • Training courses...
• the Participatory Research Programs,
• scientific partners,
• other Organizers,
• territories,
• audiences,
• referral partners,
• and, where relevant, financial partners.

 For its 35^th anniversary, OSI is opening a new chapter

We are deeply grateful to all the people and organizations who, for more than three decades, have contributed to making Participatory Science a field reality.

The current development of the sector is precisely what we hoped to see happen.

It now enables OSI to do less in place of others, and more with them.

Our ambition for the coming years is therefore simple:

to enable a growing number of autonomous Organizers, all over the world, to offer high-quality scientific experiences that are useful to participants, useful to territories and useful to research.

If you already have part of this capacity, we would like to discover what we can build together.

 Free and non-binding expression of interest.

Present your organization to us and the first capacity that you would like to integrate into or connect to the platform.