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The Science Festival School got the name from the Warsaw Science Festival - a series of popular-science activities that take place during the last week of September in Warsaw (www.icm.edu.pl/festiwal). The International Institute became a co-founder of the School of the Science Festival (SFN), along with two other PAS Institutes: the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology (IBD), the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB) and Warsaw Agricultural University (WAU) and the Warsaw Festival of Science.
The SFN laboratory is hosted in the IIMCB. Science Festival School leads another laboratory at Warsaw Agricultural University. The SFN's main objective is organization of workshops aimed to the public, mainly secondary school students and teachers, where all participants perform simple molecular biology experiment (such as DNA cloning or protein analysis). Teachers are also involved in experiments, that can be easily carried out in a classroom environment. They are familiarized with the many ways of gathering modern molecular biology information and presenting it to students. The SFN also organizes open lectures on various topics of molecular biology, presented by the country?s top specialists. The SFN cooperates with media partners and other institutions helping to increase the awareness of problems connected to molecular biology/genetics. In the near future students, teachers, journalists and politicians will become the main target of SFN activities. The SFN's long term goal is to gain governmental support and broaden its offer on a national scale.