PAST COURSES

Courses organised by DEST partners or by members of the DEST consortium. These courses take place on an annual or biannual basis and are often part of the organisers’ curriculum.

LUCE: Taxonomy of Italian fireflies, from field work to laboratory analyses

When: Online sessions: 10/3/2025-12/4/2025 (asynchronous), 14-19 April 2025 (synchronous)

Face to face: 06-10 May 2025
Registration deadline: Registration has closed on 2 February 2025
See further information here: https://bit.ly/408qV0K
Registration form: https://bit.ly/40pKjHR

SoilMATs-Soil Meiofauna Advanced Taxonomy school

When: April to August 2025
Registration deadline: Registration has closed on December 20th, 2024
See further information here: https://bit.ly/4e8WcFP

Registration form: https://bit.ly/3UrGsXe

Spider taxonomy and field methodologies

When: Online sessions: 14/3/2025, 21/3/2025, 28/3/2025
Face to face field-lab work and lectures: 7-11/4/2025
Registration deadline: Registration has closed on December 30th, 2024
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3UixQCy
Registration form: https://bit.ly/3PkaRDn

From the collections to the taxonomy: An innovative cross-disciplinary workshop on the tropical deep-sea sponges

When: 02-13 December 2024
Registration deadline: November 15th, 2024
See further information here: https://bit.ly/4cjCyG2

Registration: For registration send an email to magalie.castelin@mnhn.fr

Systematics and Phylogeny of Insects

When: 01- 26 July 2024
Registration deadline: Registration has closed on 1 June 2024
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3yqPsUy

Registration: For registration send an email to museum@smns-bw.de

Collection methods and identification of
parasitic wasps, with special emphasis on
Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)

When: 16-20 September 2024
Registration deadline: Registration has closed on 01 April 2024
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3Q9RnCd

Registration form: https://bit.ly/4933eKO

Crustacean with specialisation in Cyclopidae (Copepoda)

When: 1 February 2024 onwards (the exact date will be agreed with the trainee)
Registration deadline: Registration has closed on 22 January 2024
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3SgALvh
Registration form: https://bit.ly/40ad61v

Best practices for Vertebrate Specimen Preparation

When: 2-5 October 2023: Online interactive sessions
9-11 October 2023: face to face lab work

Registration deadline: Registration has closed on 20 June 2023
See further information here:https://bit.ly/41cvDsY
Registration: https://bit.ly/3HBZZ0b

Digitisation of Natural History collections: From data quality to data cleaning and data publishing. A hands-on experience

When: 13 – 17 November 2023
Registration deadline: Registration has closed on 10 July 2023
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3VuFpp0
Registration: https://bit.ly/44nD4QR

From the collections to the taxonomy: An innovative cross-disciplinary workshop on the tropical deep-sea benthic cnidarians

When: 28 August – 1 September 2023
Registration deadline: 25 August 2023
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3OcNfBq
Registration: Please contact Magalie Castelin at: magalie.castelin(at)mnhn.fr

Orthoptera Taxonomy and Conservation

When: 3-6 July 2023: Online interactive lectures, 17-23 July 2023: Field summer school
Registration opening and deadline: Registration has closed on 31 March 2023
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3DIE1Y0
Registration: https://bit.ly/3HBZZ0b

Monitoring and protecting pollinators in Central Italy, a taxonomic perspective

When: 19-23 June 2023
Registration deadline Registration has closed on 31 March 2023
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3D1ncXb
Registration form: https://bit.ly/3soYcnM

POLICO – Polychaetes Identification Course

When: 11-16 June 2023
Registration deadline Registration has closed on 31 March 2023
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3urNfTI
Registration form: https://bit.ly/3VOoRXZ

Morphometrics

When: 22 – 26 May 2023
Registration deadline: 30 of April 2023
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3W1axuF
Registration: Please contact Sylvain Gerber at: sylvain.gerber@mnhn.fr

Integrative taxonomy in the Big Data Era

When: 27-31 March 2023
Registration deadline: 15 February 2023
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3z7worQ
Registration: Please contact Nicolas Puillandre at: nicolas.puillandre@mnhn.fr

Online Training course on Biodiversity and Climate change

When: 16 January to 7 April 2023
Registration deadline: Registration has closed on 15th December 2022
See further information here: http://bit.ly/3EyBGQs
Registration form: https://bit.ly/3E8hjIq

Spider taxonomy and field methodologies

When: Online sessions: 24/2/2023, 10/3/2023, 24/3/2023
Face to face field-lab work and lectures: 3-7/4/2023
Registration deadline: Registration has closed on 15 December 2022
See further information here: https://bit.ly/3wqK3cq
Registration form: https://bit.ly/3PkaRDn

Practices in Palaeoentomology

When: A series of four (4) independent training courses in the period autumn-winter 2022 until spring 2023

Registration has closed on 12th of September 2022

Check the quick info sheet: Palaeoentomology

See further information here: https://bit.ly/3QDfDer

Registration form: https://bit.ly/3QgdA06