Our monitoring tool detected just over 63,000 “actions” by civil society actors (citizens, small groups and NGOs) in the areas covered by the Science and Diplomacy scientific platform. Compared to the other 3 scientific platforms analysed, we observe a larger share of citizen science contributions and policy-oriented actions. This is explained by the nature of the emerging topics considered, with, for example, the detection of many citizen-led projects in the area of democracy-affirming technologies.