FEBS Education Platform

Paris (France), 7–8 April 2017

Kindly hosted by Prof. Frédéric Dardel, Président de l'Université Paris Descartes

This is a significant event, involving FEBS Constituent Societies, to create a platform at the Europen level to brain-storm on educational issues across Europe. The discussions focus on what can be done in order to meet the mission and vision of FEBS on educational issues —to promote education throughout Europe.

Venue: Foyer des Professeurs, Université Paris Descartes, 12 Rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 - Paris.

Participants: FEBS Education Committee members and FEBS Education Ambassadors from different European countries.

Agenda

1st part of Meeting

Friday 7 April 2017, afternoon (13:00 to 18:30)

• 13:00-13:30
  • Opening and welcome talks by hosts.
• 13:30-14:00
  • "FEBS Education Committee activities" — Gül Güner
• 14:00-15:15
  • Reports from ambassadors on education activities.
    • “The Interactive Education Workshops of the French Society (SFBMB): 2016 and 2017” — Jean Luc Souciet
    • “Education Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Biochemical Society 2017” — Winnie Eskild
    • “The Latvian Biochemistry Society: FEBS Education Workshop in Riga in 2016” — Kaspars Tars
    • “The Education Section as Part of the Biochemical Congress of the Czech and Slovak Societies for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology” — Jiří Hudeček
    • "Commitment and Leadership of SEBBM with the Improvement of the Teaching of Biochemistry. Past, Present and Future." — Néstor V. Torres
    • “The Biochemical Society (UK): Learning Resources” — Steve Minchin
    • “Activities of the Austrian Society” — Hannes Stockinger
  • Panel discussion.
    
• 15:15-15:30
  • Coffe and break into working groups
• 15:30-17:00
  • Ambassadors’ working groups discussions (part 1).
• 17:00-17:45
  • "A case study approach to engaging with complex biochemical topics" — Steve Minchin
• 17:45-18:30
  • "Research and Publishing in Education.- FEBS Open Bio" — Ferhan Sağin, Angel Herráez
• 19:00
  • Dinner with Ambassadors (invitation of FEBS Education Committee)

2nd part of Meeting

Saturday 8 April 2017, morning (9:00 to 14:00)

• 9:00-9:30
  • "Educational technologies" — Angel Herráez
• 9:30-11:00
  • Ambassadors’ working groups discussions (part 2)
• 11:00-12:00
  • Reports of working groups.
    • Group 1: Inventory of key skills.
    • Group 2: Good practices.
    • Group 3: Promotion of education: ambassadors’ educational activities and comunication with all strategic stakeholders.
    • Group 4: Learning resources (repository).
• 12:00-12:45
  • "Trends and tips for organizing education activities" — Jean-Luc Souciet, Gül Güner, Keith Elliott
• 12:45-13:00
  • Feedback and close.
• 13:00-14:00
  • Lunch

Reports

• Summary report of the feedback received from participants.

Atendees:

Ambassadors Alberto SPISNI (Italy) Aljoša BAVEC (Slovenia) Anat YARDEN (Israel) Aylin Sepici DİNÇEL (Turkey) Catalin MARIAN (Romania) Daisy W. J. VAN DER SCHAFT (The Netherlands) Erkki Raulo (Finland) Hannes STOCKINGER (Austria) Jason PERRET (Belgium) Jerka DUMIC (Croatia) Jiří Hudeček (Czechia) Jürgen ALVES (Germany) Kaspars TARS (Latvia) Magali BLAUD (France) Marija GAVROVIC-JANKULOVIC (Serbia) Mónika KIRICSI (Hungary) Néstor V. TORRES (Spain) Nikos KARAMANOS (Greece) Paweł POMORSKI (Poland) Revaz SOLOMONIA (Georgia) Steve MINCHIN (United Kingdom) Todar LAKHVICH (Belarus) Vida MILDAZIENE (Lithuania) Winnie ESKILD (Norway)

FEBS Education Committee Gül GÜNER Ferhan SAĞIN Jason PERRET Jean-Luc SOUCIET László DUX Keith ELLIOTT Angel HERRÁEZ Other attendees Marion PETITRE (France) Xavier COUMOUL (France) Excuses (could not attend) Diana PETKOVA (Bulgaria) João Carlos MARCOS (Portugal) Radivoj JADRIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Tatiana BORISOVA (Ukraine)