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A joint effort to UAVR by the UAVR widening projects From the 13th to the 15th of March 2024, the second edition of the soft skills training programme was held at UAVR following a joint organizational effort by the widening projects coordinated herein: the Twinnings Supralife, EPIBOOST, Fonda, Epiviral and the ERA-Chair BESIDE. This programme…

EPIBOOST short course and advanced course 2024 And a few weeks ago, EPIBOOST organised specialized training courses targeting the EU early-career research community: one short course, fully held online and open to everyone registering to attend, and one advanced course, held online and in-person, limited to 20 trainees competitively registering in advance.The short course was…

CSIC and UGent visit UAVR As planned in EPIBOOST workpackages 2 and 4, CSIC and UGent already started the visits to UAVR for hands-on training in different project tasks.During November 2023, the CSIC researcher Dr. Janan Gawra was at UAVR for a medium-term visit. As initially planned, the specific objective of this visit was to…

on the 27th of October 2023, online It was about one month after the first annual meeting of the project that the EPIBOOST External Advisory Board (EAB), composed currently by Drs. Csaba Komlo, Eduarda Santos, Jan Mennigen and You Song, met with the project management team to provide recommendations that can improve the implementation of…

on the 20th and the 26th of September 2023 in a hybrid format The first annual meeting of the project was held following an innovative format, both because it was a hybrid event, allowing in-person participation by the team members from UAVR, and because it was split into two days one week apart.The hybrid format…

@Ghent and @Barcelona Education and literacy regarding sustainability of natural resources and the assessment of effects of contaminants in environmental health towards better ecosystems protection is a focus on EPIBOOST. Within the scope of the programme “Escolab”, a dissemination initiative by several institutions in Barcelona, our partners IDAEA-CSIC received 22 high school students and one…

@Santarém, Portugal | with the UAVR-CIDTFF team One of the EPIBOOST flagged stakeholder groups is the educational community, including teachers and students involved in School education. A great step was taken in the past October 11th towards raising awareness on the project within this community in Portugal through the participation of Maria José Loureiro in…

@Aveiro (UAVR-CESAM team) & @Barcelona (CSIC-IDAEA team) One of the EPIBOOST objectives is to disseminate and communicate science to the local people through outreach activities. This is why the participation of the project in major events at the EU level such as the European Researchers night are very much considered by our team. This year,…

EPIBOOST is committed to science communication and this is a challenging option considering the difficulties of explaining the concepts behind environmental epigenetics to non-specialized audiences. Education is key for a successful implementation of these concepts in the younger, towards a society better able to interpret the importance of epigenetic changes induced by environmental cues in…

EPIBOOST associated this year to the Blue Science and Technology (BS&T) Summer Training by UGent as part of WP3 plans. The BS&T summer training happened from 3 to 14 July 2023, providing the participants with a remarkable opportunity to bridge between knowledge provided by higher education or research and the competence requirements in the Blue…