| dc.description.abstract | Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a global threat to human, animal and environmental health. Among the multidisciplinary tasks aimed at collectively tackling the AMR crisis, surveillance, research and education stand as major priorities. Based on a crowdsourcing research strategy, the MicroMundo project, a partner of the Tiny Earth initiative in Spain and Portugal, has been developed and consolidated with success in the academic environment. The objectives are focused on promoting research and, especially, on bringing knowledge of One Health and microbiology concepts, as well as AMR awareness to the community. Following a service-learning approach, MicroMundo integrates university and secondary/high school students in a citizen science-based research project to collectively isolate microorganisms with the potential to produce new antibiotics from soil environments. Over the last 7 years, 32 MicroMundo hubs operating across 31 different Portuguese and Spanish universities have recruited thousands of teenagers in this quest. Here we review the outcome of this unprecedented effort from a scientific and an educational perspective. | es_ES |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Funding: This work was supported by Universidad de Valencia, UV-SFPIE_PID21-CON-1641321, UV-SFPIE_PID22-CON-2075782, UV-SFPIE_PID23-PIEE-2730346, UV-SFPIE_RMD17-588566, UV-SFPIE_RMD18-839102. Universidad de Zaragoza, PIIDUZ_19_01, PIIDUZ_21_ID66, PIIDUZ_22_921,PIIDUZ_2_4690. Universidad de Salamanca, ID2018/143, ID2019_036. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, LA/P/0087/2020, PTDC/BIAMIC/2422/2020, UIDB/04612/2020, UIDP/04612/2020. Universidad de Alcalá, UAHEV/1484. Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, FCT17-12215, FCT-18-13055, FCT-19-14673, FCT-19-14737, FCT-21-17093, FCT-22-17907, FCT-22-18062. Xunta de Galicia, PR804A 2020-20, PR804A 2021-19, PR804A 2022-22, PR804A 2023-23, PR804A 2024-19. Acknowledgements: The MicroMundo network and integrated hubs are in debt to the ‘Plan Estratégico Nacional para la Resistencia a Antimicrobianos’ (PRAN) from ‘Ministerio de Sanidad’ (Spain) and to the ‘Sociedad Española de Microbiología’ (SEM) as well as to local funding agencies: The Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) hub was funded by MSD España S.L., the UCM INNOVA-Docencia program (2016 and 2017), FECYT CT-17-12215 from ‘Fundación Española de Ciencia y Tecnología’ (FECyT) (2018) and the UCM Service-Learning program (2019–2023). Sampling at the UCM hub was compliant with the Nagoya protocol (reference ABSCH-IRCC-ES-270144-1); the University of Valencia (UV) hub was funded by projects UV-SFPIE_RMD17-588566, UV-SFPIE_RMD18-839102, UV-SFPIE_PID21-CON-1641321, UVSFPIE_PID22-CON-2075782, UV-SFPIE_PID23-PIEE-2730346; the University of Zaragoza hub was funded by projects PIIDUZ_19_01, PIIDUZ_21_ID66, PIIDUZ_22_921, PIIDUZ_2_4690; the University of La Rioja hub was funded by FECyT and UCC-UR projects from 2019 to 2024; the CEU-Cardenal Herrera University hub was funded by FECYT (FCT-19-14737, FCT-22-18062) and UCH-CEU from 2017 to 2024; the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) hub was funded by C_004.19_INN-UAM and C_019.21_IMP-UAM grants; the University of León hub was supported by ‘Programa de apoyo a los grupos de innovación docente de la Ule’ from 2019 to 2024; the University of Vigo hub was funded by ‘Proxectos de Innovación Educativa en Aprendizaxe-Servizo (ApS) de la Universidad de Vigo’ during 2019, 2021 and 2022 and ‘Axudas económicas para mejorar la divulgación de las actividades de innovación docente’ (2019–2024); the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) was supported from 2017 to 2019 by the ‘Vicerrectorado de proyectos estratégicos’ and from 2020 to 2024 by ‘Programa Argó (Insitut de Ciències de l'Educació, UAB)’; the University Institute of Health Sciences-CESPU (IUCSCESPU) hub was funded by Cooperative of Polytechnic and University Higher Education (CESPU); the University of Salamanca/Spanish National Research Council (USAL/CSIC) hub was supported from 2018 to 2024 by ‘Unidad de Cultura Científica y de la Innovación (USAL)’, and FECyT, ThermoFisher (2018–2019), Teaching Innovation grants ID2018/143 and ID2019_036 (2018–2020), ‘Vicepresidencia Adjunta Cultura Científica’ (CSIC; 2021–2023), ‘Provincia Creativa (Diputación de Salamanca; 2021–2023)’ and Service-Learning Grant 2023/01 (USAL); the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM-Tol) hub was supported by grants by FECyT (FCT-18-13055, FCT-19-14673, FCT-21-17093 and FCT-22-17907) and Teaching Innovation grants from ‘Vicerrectorado de Estudios, Calidad y Acreditación de la UCLM’; the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM-Albacete) hub was supported by high schools centres and by the grant received from ‘Unidad de Cultura Científica e Innovación (UCLMdivulga)’ and would also thank the Service-Learning Committee of ‘Dirección Provincial de Educación, Cultura y Deportes’ in Albacete for managerial help for the MicroMundo and the Nagoya Protocol (ESCN35); the University of Porto (UP) hub was supported by UP grants from the ‘Projetos de Inovação Pedagógica do Programa de Excelência Pedagógica program’, ‘Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto’, ‘Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto’ and Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas (UCIBIO); the University of León (ULE) hub was supported by the ULE teaching innovation program; the University of Sevilla (US) hub was granted by the ‘Ayudas Extensión Universitaria’ program from the US ‘Vicerrectorado de Relaciones Internacionales’, the US VI and VII ‘Planes Propios de Investigación y Transferencia (2018–2024) and supported by the US School of Pharmacy; the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) hub was funded by Xunta de Galicia (PR804A 2020-20, PR804A 2021-19, PR804A 2022-22, PR804A 2023-23 and PR804A 2024-19); the University of Granada (UGR) was supported by the UGR ‘Facultad de Ciencias’ (2021–2022) and UGR teaching innovation grant 22-107 (2022–2024). The activities of the ITQB NOVA, Oeiras Municipality (ITQB NOVA, UNL, OM) hub were supported by ‘Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia’ (FCT) (UIDB/04612/2020, UIDP/04612/2020, LA/P/0087/2020 and PTDC/BIA-MIC/2422/2020) and the Oeiras Municipality through the project ‘Ciência + Cidadã’. The Jaume I University of Castellón (UJI) hub was supported by different sections from UJI (Training and Educational Innovation Unit, ViceRectorate for Students and Healthy Living and Innovation, Transfer and Scientific Dissemination) and the Castelló City Council and the Castelló Provincial Council. The University of Alcalá (UAH) hub was funded by project UAHEV/1484. Finally, we would like to sincerely thank allthe university and school teachers, as well as the university and school students, who have been part of the MicroMundo community from its inception to the present. | es_ES |
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