RT Journal Article
T1 Citizen Science to Raise Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness in the Community: The MicroMundo Project in Spain and Portugal
A1 Gil Serna, Jessica
A1 Antunes, Patricia
A1 Campoy, Susana
A1 Cid, Ángeles
A1 Cobo Molinos, Antonio
A1 Durão, Paulo
A1 Fajardo, Carmen
A1 Fouz, Belén
A1 Freitas, Ana R.
A1 Grosso, Filipa
A1 de Groot, Piet W. J.
A1 de Miguel, Trinidad
A1 González Zorn, Bruno
A1 Hinojosa, Belén
A1 Leão, Maria João
A1 Llagostera, Montserrat
A1 de Llanos, Rosa
A1 Lucía, Ainhoa
A1 Maicas, Sergi
A1 Marín, Irma
A1 Martínez Cañamero, Magdalena
A1 Miranda, Carla
A1 Molina Guijarro, José Manuel
A1 Moreno, Diego A.
A1 de los Llanos Palop, María
A1 Pérez Álvarez, María José
A1 Pereira, Pedro M.
A1 Pérez Gracia, María Teresa
A1 Quinteira, Sandra
A1 Rioboo, Carmen
A1 Robredo, Beatriz
A1 Rodríguez Calleja, José María
A1 de la Haba, Rafael R.
A1 Sánchez, Sandra
A1 Sánchez Angulo, Manuel
A1 Sánchez Porro, Cristina
A1 Sangari, Félix J.
A1 Santos, Beatriz
A1 Silveira, Eduarda
A1 Vicedo, Begonya
A1 Jiménez Cid, Víctor
AB 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.
PB John Wiley & Sons
SN 1751-7915
YR 2025
FD 2025-03-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120261
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120261
LA eng
NO 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
NO 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.
NO Universidad de Valencia
NO Universidad de Zaragoza
NO Universidad de Salamanca
NO Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
NO Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
NO Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología
NO Xunta de Galicia
DS Docta Complutense
RD 30 jun 2025