The Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST), originally funded by the EC in the framework of the EDIT project, provides two types of training courses at various European research facilities and universities. The programme is open to participants from Europe and from outside of Europe.

The Modern Taxonomy programme 2013-2014 offers intensive theoretical courses in subjects as varied as nomenclature and DNA-barcoding. The Expert-in-training programme 2013-2014 enables graduate students and early career researchers to develop and strengthen their taxonomic research skills through on-the-job-training. The programme includes a great diversity of topics and covers various groups such as diatoms, rotifers and tropical plants.

Within the latter programme, several training courses focus on freshwater taxa and might be of particular interest to you (registration deadline on 31 January 2014!):
Training program in non-marine diatoms from the (sub-) Antarctic Region (B. Van de Vijver, National Botanic Garden of Belgium)
Morphology, taxonomy and identification of Rotifera (H. Segers, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences)
Training programme in Crustacean systematics with specialisation in Cyclopidae (Copepoda) (M. Hołyńska, Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland)
Systematics of freshwater subterranean Malacostraca: Morphology, molecular systematics, and web-taxonomy (C. Fišer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

New training providers are most welcome to participate in training delivery within the Distributed European School of Taxonomy. For more information, please mail us at dest-training@naturalsciences.be or have a look here.

PhD students within the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative, the Israel Taxonomy Initiative and the Research School in Biosystematics (ForBio) might receive support to attend DEST-courses. For details, please contact STI, ITI or ForBio.

Thank you for spreading the word!
With best regards,
Dr Hendrik Gheerardyn
Dr Isabella Van de Velde
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DEST Training
www.taxonomytraining.eu
dest-training@naturalsciences.be

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 32 2 627 43 34 (336)

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