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Martín Brieva, Humberto

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Humberto
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Martín Brieva
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/77676
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Farmacia
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Microbiología y Parasitología
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Microbiología
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    Educating in antimicrobial resistance awareness: adaptation of the Small World Initiative program to service-learning.
    (FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2018) Valderrama Conde, María José; González Zorn, Bruno; Calvo De Pablo, Pilar; Díez Orejas, Rosalía María; Fernández-Acero Bascones, Teresa; Gil Serna, Jessica; Juan Ferré, Lucía De; Martín Brieva, Humberto; Molina Martín, María; Navarro García, Federico; Patiño Álvarez, Aurora Belén; Pla Alonso, Jesús; Prieto, Daniel; Rodríguez Fernández, Carmina; Román González, Elvira; Sanz Santamaría, Ana Belén; Silóniz Jiménez, María Isabel De; Suárez Rodríguez, Mónica; Vázquez Estévez, María Covadonga Inmaculada; Jiménez Cid, Víctor
    The Small World Initiative (SWI) and Tiny Earth are a consolidated and successful education programs rooted in the USA that tackle the antibiotic crisis by a crowdsourcing strategy. Based on active learning, it challenges young students to discover novel bioactive-producing microorganisms from environmental soil samples. Besides its pedagogical efficiency to impart microbiology content in academic curricula, SWI promotes vocations in research and development in Experimental Sciences and, at the same time, disseminates the antibiotic awareness guidelines of the World Health Organization. We have adapted the SWI program to the Spanish academic environment by a pioneering hierarchic strategy based on service-learning that involves two education levels (higher education and high school) with different degrees of responsibility. Throughout the academic year, 23 SWI teams, each consisting of 3-7 undergraduate students led by one faculty member, coordinated off-campus programs in 22 local high schools, involving 597 high school students as researchers. Post-survey-based evaluation of the program reveals a satisfactory achievement of goals: acquiring scientific abilities and general or personal competences by university students, as well as promoting academic decisions to inspire vocations for science- and technology-oriented degrees in younger students, and successfully communicating scientific culture in antimicrobial resistance to a young stratum of society.