Around eighty secondary school students and sixty-five medical students participate in the second edition of the MicroMón UJI project



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## Around eighty secondary school students and sixty-five medical students participate in the second edition of the MicroMón UJI project

26/04/2023 |
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Based on the service-learning methodology, it aims to raise awareness of the problem of antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria and research into new antibiotic-producing micro-organisms.

Around eighty students from five secondary schools in the province of Castelló and the city of Castelló de la Plana and sixty-five students of the Bachelor's Degree in Medicine at the Universitat Jaume I have participated in the second edition of Micron UJI. This citizen science project, based on the service-learning methodology, is aimed at raising awareness of the problem of multi-antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens and research on new antibiotic-producing microorganisms.

This participatory project addressed to members of the university community has been coordinated by the microbiologists Rosa de Llanos and Begonya Vicedo. It has the support of several teachers from the five participating secondary schools: Francesc Collado (IES Bovalar), María Buendía and Amalia Valiente (IES Matilde Salvador) and Isabel Henares (IES Penyagolosa), from Castelló de la Plana, and Pilar Safont (IES Broch i Llop in Vila-real) and Eugenia Delcampo (IES la Vall d’Alba in La Vall d’Alba).

Students in the fourth year of compulsory secondary education, in the first year of upper secondary education and of the higher level of the Clinical and Biomedical Laboratory specialisation of vocational training have explored soil microbial biodiversity by collecting samples and subsequently choosing bacteria producing antimicrobials. To carry out this task, they have had the support of students of the Bachelor's Degree in Medicine, who talked to them about pathogenic microorganisms and their resistance to antimicrobials and helped them select the most interesting samples of bacteria for their subsequent analysis in the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló (UJI).

In the last academic year, 2021-2022, the UJI launched a pilot test of the project with the participation of twenty-five volunteer students of the Bachelor's Degree in Medicine and of the Bachelor's Degree in Agrifood and Rural Engineering, who trained around twenty secondary school students from the IES Bovalar in Castelló de la Plana and the IES la Vall d'Alba in La Vall d'Alba.

The closing conference of this second edition will take place in the morning of Thursday 4 May 2023 in the morning, in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Its purpose will be twofold: to bring society closer to this serious problem, known as the "silent pandemic", caused by the more and more frequent presence of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms, and to make biomedical research more widely known in order to encourage pre-university  students to pursue scientific careers.

MicroMón UJI is a project integrated within and coordinated by the SWI@Spain-MicroMundo network, supported by the Teaching and Dissemination Group of the Spanish Microbiology Society (SEM) and the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Healthcare Products (AEMPS) (National Antibiotic Resistance Plan). The SWI@Spain-MicroMundo network is the Spanish branch of the international projects Small World Initiative and Tiny Earth.

Its goal is to bring scientific culture on antibiotic resistance, the One Health perspective and biomedical research in general closer to young pre-university students in order to encourage them to pursue STEM studies and conduct R&D. Hence, a crowdsourcing strategy is implemented to discover new antibiotics.

The initiative has the support of the office of the vice-rectors for Innovation, Transfer and Science Outreach and for Students and Healthy Living of the Universitat Jaume I, of the town councils of Vila-real and Castelló de la Plana, and of the Castelló Provincial Government, as well as the commitment of the five participating schools.

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