Citizen Science to Raise Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness in the Community: The MicroMundo Project in Spain and Portugal
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2025
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Gil‐Serna, J., Antunes, P., Campoy, S., Cid, Á., Cobo‐Molinos, A., Durão, P., Fajardo, C., Fouz, B., Freitas, A. R., Grosso, F., de Groot, P. W. J., de Miguel, T., Zorn, B. G., Hinojosa, B., Leão, M. J., Llagostera, M., de Llanos, R., Lucía, A., Maicas, S., et al. (2025). Citizen Science to Raise Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness in the Community: The MicroMundo Project in Spain and Portugal. Microbial Biotechnology, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70123
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.
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Jessica Gil‐Serna: writing – review and editing, data curation, formal analysis, project administration, funding acquisition, conceptualization, investigation, writing – original draft. Patricia Antunes: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Susana Campoy: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Ángeles Cid: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Antonio Cobo‐Molinos: data curation, writing – review and editing, funding acquisition. Paulo Durão: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Carmen Fajardo: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Belén Fouz: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Ana R. Freitas: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Filipa Grosso: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Piet W. J. de Groot: methodology, writing – review and editing, funding acquisition, data curation. Trinidad de Miguel: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Bruno González Zorn: conceptualization, writing – review and editing, data curation. Belén Hinojosa: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Maria João Leão: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Montserrat Llagostera: conceptualization, funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Rosa de Llanos: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Ainhoa Lucía: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Sergi Maicas: funding acquisition, methodology, writing – review and editing, data curation. Irma Marín: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Magdalena Martínez‐Cañamero: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Carla Miranda: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. José Manuel Molina‐Guijarro: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Diego A. Moreno: funding acquisition, methodology, writing – review and editing, data curation. María de los Llanos Palop: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. María José Pérez‐Álvarez: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Pedro M. Pereira: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. María Teresa Pérez‐Gracia: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Sandra Quinteira: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Carmen Rioboo: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Beatriz Robredo: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation, methodology. José María Rodríguez‐Calleja: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Rafael R. de la Haba: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Sandra Sánchez: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Manuel Sánchez Angulo: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Cristina Sánchez‐Porro: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Félix J. Sangari: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Beatriz Santos: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Eduarda Silveira: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Begonya Vicedo: funding acquisition, writing – review and editing, data curation. Víctor J. Cid: conceptualization, investigation, funding acquisition, writing – original draft, methodology, validation, visualization, formal analysis, project administration, data curation, supervision, resources