The third main block of "Marine Genomics" J.P.A. was designed to ensure an efficient spreading of the NoE competencies and results. Spreading activities will include joint training courses in genomics since these will seek trainees both inside and outside of the initial consortium, notably to target young or established researchers that would be willing to join the network. A number of educational courses (teaching) as well as topic-driven workshops, to refine further the joint research priorities, will also be organized throughout Europe. Again, these actions will be opened to emerging and senior researchers who are not formal members of "Marine Genomics Europe". In particular, we will invite to our workshops scientists from outside Europe, so that we can tune our scientific priorities to important external developments, notably in the USA and Japan.
Bioinformatics course in Bielefeld (1) PhDs and Post Docs Work Shop in Berlin (2005) (2)
credit photographies: Amit Cohen (1) and U. Hjelm (2)
Communication with fellow colleagues will of course involve result dissemination through peer-reviewed publications and presentations at international symposia under the Network umbrella, thus progressively contributing in identity building.
However, since Marine Genomics also wants to enhance awareness about sustainable husbandry of marine living resources and to create new gateways for the exploitation of marine assets, we will develop complementary dissemination strategies, targeting public, private and institutional communities. In practice, this aspect will require the establishment of a Knowledge and Communication System (The REX Tool) i. e., a permanent web-based interface for communications within the network and its environment (for the flow of information into the NoE as well as dissemination.
The different activities proposed :
An experimental project is currently on going between the CNRS (Station Biologique, Roscoff, Fr) and a local high school (Collège Jacques Prévert, Saint Pol de Léon, Fr)
