Announcements and Events

MicroCokit Project TRAINING SCHOOL - Methods for detecting and quantifying aquatic microbial communities

Rome, April 4-6, 2017
IRSA-CNR, Area della Ricerca RM1

The MicroCokit project, coordinated by CNR-IRSA, has been conceived to investigate and identify aquatic indicators based on microbial communities linked to anthropogenic pressures. The project is under the Microbial Community-based sequencing analysis linked to anthropogenic pressures (MicroCoKit), with the framework of the FP7 Marie Curie Action: "Industry Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP)" project.

The three day Training Course is aimed to disseminate molecular bio-tools for the characterization of microbial communities under different anthropogenic pressures.


Instructions for application can be found on the leaflet

The deadline is 16 March 2017.

Workshop Entrepreneurship from ideas to success

24-25 September 2015 Ispra (Italy)

The JRC (Ispra, Italy) is organising this workshop under the Microbial Community-based sequencing analysis linked to anthropogenic pressures (MicroCoKit), with the framework of the FP7 Marie Curie Action: "Industry Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP)" project.

The workshop aims to:

Provide young scientists with useful tools, information and inspiration
Promote and boost entrepreneurship activities
Motivate young scientists to be proactive in using the wealth of information available to help create jobs based on their ideas.


More information on the leaflet

The deadline for registration is 15 September 2015.

The maximum number of participants is 100.

Please register at the website linked here