SupBioteh, Engineering School of Biotechnology will host its the 2025 Summer School in Paris from July 7 to 25, 2025.
This year’s theme is “One Health”: A Pragmatic Approach Through Biotechnology.
This course will offer a unique opportunity to explore how human, animal, and environmental health are interconnected, and how biotechnology is critical to solving global challenges.
Special Offer for UNIgreen Students
Thanks to our Alliance, registration and tuition fees (€1,300) are fully waived for UNIgreen students.
The only cost is accommodation: a flat fee of €1,400 for the entire program. Additionally, the flat fee covers all meals and organized activities in Paris!
How to Apply
Apply by 10 June 2025 via email at [email protected] for UNIgreen students.
Programme details
During this summer school, participants will have the opportunity to learn about One Health principles, and how they are applied. They will also be introduced to systems thinking through case studies. We will then illustrate how biotechnologies, including environmental biotechnologies, can integrate within One Health.
The goal of this summer school is to develop the capacity of the participants to better understand complex systems and to consider biotechnological innovation from the perspective of One Health which is essential to develop sound biotechnological solutions.
This Summer School includes:
- lectures (22 hours)
- hands-on training (27 hours)
- workshops (4 hours)
Objectives
- Understand One Health principles
- Develop systems thinking capabilities for one health
- Improve decision-making skills and capacity to propose relevant solutions to complex problems
- Understand how biotechnologies contribute to One Health
- Develop practical skills in the evaluation of environmental impacts on human health using cellular models
- Acquire knowledge and technical skills in metagenomics
The lecture program will be divided into two parts. The first will address One Health principles and core knowledge. The second part will illustrate the place of biotechnologies into One Health.
The lecture sessions will address the following points:
- Core principles of One Health
- Underlying ecological theories
- System thinking
- Water pollution, environmental epidemiology and bioremediation
- Socio-economical barriers opposed to innovation and change
- Genetic engineering
- Monitoring the environmental impacts on human health
- Microbial biodiversity assessment by metagenomics
- Ecotoxicology
Practical training will be an entry door to invite students to frame into a broad picture the results obtained, and their knowledge using the One Health approach. Hands-on training will allow students to question pesticides usage through One Health perspective. Participants will:
- Perform an ecotoxicological evaluation of the impacts of pesticides using cell based assay
- Use culturomic and metagenomic approaches to characterize the environmental impact of pesticides on soil microbiome
- engage in a workshop dedicated to holistic understanding of the relationships that bridge pesticides usage in agriculture to One Health
If you have any questions or need further details, feel free to contact us at [email protected].