The new department in Prague is being established thanks to a small strategic expansion with a substantive focus on the topic of citizen science. From 2025 onward, it will examine the relationship between academically and non-academically generated knowledge from a historical, contemporary and transnational perspective, thus serving as a methodological-theoretical laboratory for citizen knowledge and participation. The new department will have an impact on the GWZO's work, with targeted topics and fields of activity (epistemology of science; historical knowledge and structures of evidence; a toolbox for participation and participatory exhibitions) and offer important impulses for the further development of the GWZO's cross-departmental research agenda, mostly with concrete bilateral project cooperation with the Czech partners.