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Welcome to the Digital Marine website. 
The DigitalMarine project is a strategic 


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partnership funded by the Erasmus+ 
programme, bringing together six 


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universities and institutes. Its aim is
 to develop an online learning platform 


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dedicated to the use of marine
 organisms in life science.


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For students in the Schmid Training Course,
 this online platform will be combined with 


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a practical course taking
 place in a marine station.


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And this way of teaching, mixing
 online and in-person sessions,


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  is called hybrid and/or blended learning.
The organisation of experimental courses


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 has been a long tradition in the Station
Biologique de Roscoff, the Schmid Training 


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Course is one of them and it is presenting
 a wide diversity of marine organisms,


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 for example brown algae and marine
 bacteria, but also metazoans such as


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crustaceans, sponges, placozoans,
cephalochordates, sharks, et cetera. 


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It is presented in this course how they are
 useful in different fields of developmental 


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biology, of biology in general: neurobiology,
 developmental biology, cell biology, and


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 also evo-devo or eco-evo-devo. They are
 also useful to study questions related to 


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regeneration and stem cells, 
cell cycle regulation, life cycle,


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 cellular morphogenesis, and
 also symbiotic relationships.


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So, this practical course
 has run for many years 


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and we decided to transform
 the learning experience.


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 You will find on this website for each model 
an online companion resource for the Schmid


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 Training Course. Virtual labs, video lectures,
 interviews with researchers, animations,


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 and scientific literature. This online
 resource will allow you to familiarise 


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yourself with the different models and topics
before coming to the Schmid Training Course.


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So as you have the basic knowledge before
 coming to the Schmid Training Course 


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 through this online module, we can have
 more time for practical lab work and we


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 can increase opportunities to speak with 
the different instructors. You will have also 


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more time to tackle conceptual 
questions related to academic research. 


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You will also find on the DigitalMarine
 website the complete history of the 


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Schmid Training Course, the biographies
 of your instructors and researchers who


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 are participating, and the names of the 
institutions and universities involved in


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 this project. Enjoy the DigitalMarine 
website, and see you soon!