Experimental Models in Molecular Biomedicine (EMMB)

*Recognition of ECTS depends on your home university.

Physical mobility

The physical mobility part will be running from 30 June to 4 July 2025 in Madrid, Spain and will include:

• visits to university's facilities and/ or laboratories; 
• individual evaluation of each student - written and oral presentation;
• general discussions on each model;
• personal feedback from scientists;
• closing ceremony including keynote speeches from young and veteran researchers.

City tours and local cultural activities will make the mobility experience the most enriching for all international participants.

Proposed program:

• Monday: teachers seminars
• Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 

- morning: written exam, individual presentations & individual feedback tutorial (up to six practical cases, similar to those presented and worked on during the workshops, will be proposed. The students will choose two of them for development, and afterwards only one to be presented in the following days. All teachers and students will be present and there will be individual feedback provided to each student);

- afternoon: visits to research facilities; cultural visit of the city; social program.

• Friday: course wrap up, inspirational seminar by an invited speaker and diplomas delivery ceremony.

Virtual part

The online meetings will take place between 3 February - 20 June 2025, as following:

Week 1: General lectures (compulsory)

• 3 February - Presentation
• 5 February - Scientific method
• 7 February - Experimental approaches

Then students will have to attend 4, 6 or 8 workshops (depending on the enrolled ECTS - 3, 5 or 6). Please note that dates are final, however workshops order can be changed, although the final calendar will be updated (if needed) before the enrollment.

10-21 February: workshop Yeast as a biotechnological tool with multiple applications: a model for dietary toxicology

24 February - 7 March: workshop Non-coding RNAs and RNA modifications in cell differentiation and disease

10-21 March: workshop Behavioral phenotyping of Mouse Models

24 March - 4 April: workshop Human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells differentiation for tissue engineering applications

13 - 27 April: Easter holidays spanning all different CIVIS countries

28 April - 9 May: workshop In Vivo and Ex Vivo Cancer Immunity Models

12 - 23 May: workshop Riboseq to understand proteostasis in disease

26 May - 5 June: workshop Models to study Angiogenesis

9 - 20 June: workshop Novel approaches to study Human Diseases

Requirements

This course is open to Bachelor's, Master's and PhD's students at CIVIS member universities, with at least 180 certified ECTS of Bachelor Degree in Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics, Biomedicine, Pharmacy or similar (in the field of Health sciences).

Participants should have a good level of written and spoken English (B2), but also skills such as critical analysis of experimental design, team work and peer-instruction, self- and peer-assessment, ability to make simple, effective, informative, right-to-the point graphic presentations (synthesis & data interpretation skills), critical thinking, and scientific communication abilities. 

NB: Visiting Students - Erasmus Funding Eligibility

To be eligible for your selected CIVIS programme, you must be a fully enrolled student at your CIVIS home university at the time you will be undertaking the programme. Click here to learn more about the eligibility criteria.

Students from CIVIS’ strategic partner universities in Africa cannot apply for participation in this course.

Application process

Send your application by filling in the online application form by 31 October 2024, including:

• CV
• Motivation letter

• Level of English (According to CEFR)

Applications will be evaluated based on the academic performance of the student, Molecular and Cell Biology courses background (ECTS number & grades), motivation letter: career plan, expectations, research interests, reasons to choose the course.

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Assessment

Assessment will comprise teacher and peer evaluation (based on a rubric form which will be fully explained):

Continous assessment:

• individual questionnaires: 15%
• team work & presentations (4, 6 or 8 - depending on the enrolled ECTS): 35% (20% teachers + 15% peer teams)

Individual exam & presentation:

• written exam: 20%
• presentation: 30%

Blended Intensive Programme

This CIVIS course is a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP): a new format of Erasmus+ mobility which combines online teaching with a short trip to another campus to learn alongside students and professors across Europe. Click here to learn more about CIVIS BIPs.

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