BGE will engage with citizen scientists through a series of workshops and open days targeting all levels -from school children to students, from employees of national parks to amateur expert taxonomists. The workshops use activities and games to show the crucial role of invertebrates in the environment and make participants familiar with the concepts of DNA barcoding as well as the main field methods for collecting, preserving and identifying insects. These activities are also important to explain the concept of DNA barcode library building and the interpretation of barcoding results.
Biodiversity Genomics Europe Workshops
Biodiversity under our feet!
Associação BIOPOLIS - CIBIO; Camara Municipal de Lousada Mata de Vilar, Lousada (Portugal) 14 January 2024 What a day! Theoretical session, sampling
100 years of Grabia river research – from microscopy to DNA barcoding!
Benthological Section of the Polish Hydrobiological Society Zalecze Landscape Park, Warta River, Poland 19-20 October 2023 The main aim of the
Insect Day at Storbekkøya!
Storbekkøya museumsseter, Budal, Norway 29 July 2023 BGE's "Insect Day" at the local museum for summer mountain pastures in Budalen was open
Biodiversity under your feet (part 2)
Tatra National Park (TNP), Poland 9-11 September 2023 The 3-day meeting was closing the sampling period, lasting 20 weeks, in Tatra National
BioBlitz “Ocean of Change”
Oceanological Institute Polish Academy of Sciences Sopot (Poland) 16-17 June 2023 NOTE: The activity was co-organised by the Lodz University, Department of
Entomological Summer Camp in Bialowieza
Białowieża Goebotanical Fieldstation of the University of Warsaw Bialowieza (Poland) 29 July - 8 August 2023 NOTE: The activity was co-organised by the
Biodiversity under your feet (Part 1)
Tatra National Park 26-27 April 2023 As still little is known on the insect diversity in high mountains, together with the Tatra
Barcoding NL – engaging with amateur expert collectors
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (NL) 7 October 2023 Last October 7th, Naturalis Biodiversity Center (the Netherlands) hosted the ‘Barcoding NL’ event. BGE
The Most Wanted
De Biesbosch National Park, Netherlands 4 August 2023 The Naturalis sampling team joined the youngsters of JNM - Jongeren in de natuur
The Little Things That Run the World – Mountain (1st edition)
Associação BIOPOLIS - CIBIO; CISE – Centro de interpretação da Serra da Estrela 18-20 July 2023 This event aimed to create awareness
DNA detectives: Which fish swim in the Rhine?
Museum Koenig, Bonn 18 June 2023 This workshop was designed to teach children from 6 to 10 years old the concept of
The Little Things That Run the World BIOPOLIS CIBIO (PT)
Lousada (Portugal) 3 - 5 April 2023 BGE's first citizen science workshop took place in early April in Mata de Vilar, Portugal.The three-day
Help us to detect invasive species in European coastal waters!
BGE wants to harness the power of citizen scientists and eDNA techniques to provide a powerful new perspective on marine invasive species occurrence and distribution
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