National Centre for Biotechnology Education UK (NCBE)
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The NCBE's Web site (started in January 1995) is recognised as a valuable source of information and has featured in Nature Biotechnology. It attracts more than 100,000 connections per week. The Centre also deals with written and telephone enquiries from teachers, students and members of the public each day, particularly on safety and practical project work.
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TeachingBase
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The TeachingBASE provides an online archive for outstanding science teaching material, offers general information related to science education initiatives throughout the world and serves as communication and exchange forum for science educators. The TeachingBase is part of 'Continuing education for European Biology Teachers' an initiative of EMBO, EMBL and EFB.
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The European Initiative for Biotechnology Education (EIBE)
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The European Initiative for Biotechnology Education (EIBE) seeks to promote skills, enhance understanding and facilitate public debate throughout Europe. Founded in 1991, EIBE has become an active European multidisciplinary network of experts in biotechnology education drawn from 20 centres in 17 European countries.
The main activity of the Group has been to generate teaching materials for 16 -19 year olds. The material is written in several european languages and is available at their website.
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The University of Arizona Biotech Project: Mobile Biotechnology for the Classroom
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Many experiments intended for use by high school teachers who want their students to have a hands-on experience with biotechnology. |
Strategies for Introducing Biotechnology in the Classroom, Acces Excellence
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Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides high school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. |
LearningLab
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In the LearningLAB, science school teachers can attend practical laboratory courses that cover cutting-edge research topics and methods.
The LearningLAB also runs a visitors programme for scientists and science educators that want to work with teachers, develop teaching material and education programmes. The LearningLab is part of 'Continuing Education of European Biology Teachers' an initiative of EMBO, EMBL and EFB.
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Continuing Education for European Biology Teachers (CeeBT)
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The goal of Continuing Education for European Biology Teachers (CeeBT) is to provide a new layer of professional development for biology teachers in secondary schools, a professional group that is recognised as crucial to many aspect of future European success in the area of research and development.
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