On September 22, 2015 IIMCB will organize “Be Healthy as a Fish” workshop as a festival lesson at 19th edition of the Warsaw Science Festival. The objective of the IIMCB educational program is to teach children basic knowledge about the life of fish and about possibilities of their use in studies on certain human diseases. We would like to introduce children to modern science in a friendly way. We will focus on the field of biology in a way that complements the children’s classroom curriculum and that encourages them to broaden their biology interests in the future.

Since December 2012, IIMCB has been implementing the FishMed project, supported by the European Union. Within this project, we have opened one of the largest facilities to grow and breed lines of zebrafish as research models in this part of Europe. We are pioneering research, in which we use zebrafish as an attractive alternative to studies in which higher vertebrates are used as the model organisms. Using this species as an example, children will have the opportunity to learn how important fish are for us, as well as discover what we as a society can gain through the work of biologists in the future.

The Warsaw Science Festival is a scientific event held each year in September in Warsaw. The main objective of the Festival is to popularize the understanding of methods, scope of possibilities and achievements of science in the society, present its role in the development of a strong economy and its significance for the development of a better, knowledge-based society.

For more information (in Polish) about the “Be Healthy as a Fish” at Science Festival please visit: http://festiwalnauki.edu.pl/lekcje/badz-zdrow-jak-ryba

For more information (in Polish) how to book a festival lesson please visit: http://festiwalnauki.edu.pl/aktualnosci/rezerwacja-lekcji-festiwalowych