April to August 2025 | Hybrid Course | SoilMATs – Soil Meiofauna Advanced Taxonomy school [25.11.24]
Location: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Modena, Italy), Senckenberg Museum of Natural History (Görlitz, Germany), Biology Centre Czech Academy of Science (Branišovská, Czechia), Online
TETTRIs project delivers unique training opportunity in taxonomy of soil organisms via a third-party project. Soil organisms are of vital importance for our ecosystems, including agricultural landscapes. This course will contribute to the training of a new generation of biodiversity experts that are essential for mitigating the ongoing biodiversity crisis. All costs are covered through the EU-Horizon project that is developed through a consortium of 17 partners including the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart and the Center for Biodiversity and integrative Taxonomy.
Train a new generation of taxonomists expert in soil biodiversity and ecology with a special focus on Nematoda, Tardigrada, and Rotifera phyla. This high-level training course on soil ecology and its fauna will teach about the biodiversity of the surface of and within the soil and how to identify some macrofauna and microfauna taxa. Among these, special attention to the hydrophilic meiofauna taxa in soil, often neglected mainly due to the paucity of expert taxonomists, will be given.
The training is a mixed online OnDemand (~60 hours) and Face to Face (120 hours in 15 days) activities from April to August 2025. In particular, the participants will be involved in an online OnDemand theoretical training about soil environment and its fauna in April and May and in three face-to-face hands-on workshops: one in Czechia focused on rotifers’ taxonomy in May, one in Germany focused on nematodes’ taxonomy in July, and one in Italy focused on tardigrades’ taxonomy in August. Each face-to-face session comprises one day of sampling on the field and four laboratory activities/lectures days for a total of 5 days.
For any additional information write to evozoolab@unimore.it.
TETTRIs experts (online support):
- Dr Iasmi Stathi (soil macrofauna-arthropoda) (NHMC-UoC, Greece)
- Dr Eleftherios Bitzilekis (soil macrofauna-gastropoda) (NHMC-UoC, Greece)
- Dr Roberto Guidetti (Soil Microfauna-Tardigrada) (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
- Dr Karin Hohberg (Soil Microfauna-Nematoda) (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany)
- Dr Miloslav Devetter (Soil Microfauna-Rotifera) (Biology Centre CAS – Institute of Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry, Czech Republic)
The SoilMATs Trainers:
- Edoardo Massa (Italy)
- Daniele Camarda (Italy)
- Julian Escher (Germany)
- Michala Tůmová (Czech Republic)
- Marco Antonio Jiménez (Czech Republic)
Further information on
https://cetaf.org/dest/soilmats-soil-meiofauna-advanced-taxonomy-school
Details about the course
| Date: | April to August 2025 |
| Location: | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Modena, Italy), Senckenberg Museum of Natural History (Görlitz, Germany), Biology Centre Czech Academy of Science (Branišovská, Czechia), Online |
| Target group: | The application is open to - European citizens or people who are currently involved in a European research institution/university
- third-year bachelor students, master’s students, graduate students
- PhD students
- post-docs for a maximum of 5 years after the PhD.
Degrees in biology, forestry, agriculture, and natural sciences.
Good level of knowledge of English language (i.e., B1 or above). |
| Course’s language: | English |
| Registration: | Registration deadline: 20 December 2024
Response date: January 25, 2025 |
| Fee: | The school enrolment is free. Expenses for training fees, travels from European localities, transports during the workshops, food, and accommodations are covered by SoilMATs project. All the other costs are at the expenses of participants. |
| Participant quota (min and max number of trainees): | 1-20 |
| External funding/sponsoring: | This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation program within the framework of the TETTRIs Project funded under Grant Agreement Nr 101081903 |
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