Past EBSA courses

  1. 17 April 2018

    EBSA21 - Course B - Risk assessment methodologies

    Management of risks related to activities with hazardous biological material, be it research, development, production or diagnostics, requires risk assessment at various stages of the activity. To begin with, the hazards of the various biological materials need to be estimated. Also, when genetic modification is involved methods and tools such as viral vectors, plasmids and types of inserts need to be considered.

  2. 17 April 2018

    EBSA21 - Course J - BSC – making the most of it

    Biosafety cabinets are the most important and most widely used primary containment equipment in microbiological and biomedical laboratories (BSL-2, BSL-3 and BSL-4) for the protection of workers, the environment and the product. 

  3. 17 April 2018

    EBSA21 - Course I - Training must be fun – a comprehensive introduction to teaching convincingly

    This is a highly interactive course.
    The trainers guide you through the maze of making a training program, fit for the audience; including an introduction to various ways of teaching, organizing group work and evaluation of training. 

  4. 17 April 2018

    EBSA21 - Course H - The User Requirement Specification (URS): How to start it right, keep it ship-shape not pear-shaped, and arrive at a happy ending

    The course is aimed at biosafety people and others desiring to create User Requirement Specifications (URSs) which optimize the ability to create successful outcomes.

  5. 17 April 2018

    EBSA21 - Course F - Arthropods: Invertebrates – facilities and handling

    This course will provide researchers, biosafety professionals and facility managers an insight into the assessment of risk, design, operation and management of contained use activities involving arthropods.

  6. 17 April 2018

    EBSA21 - Course C - Bioethics: Social Responsibilities and Regulation

    The aim of this course is to reflect on the rationale and benefit of science regulation in different research fields from a bioethical point of view.
    We will start with a brief introduction to the aims and methodology of bioethics and the general relation between ethics and law. 

  7. 26 April 2017

    EBSA20 - Course N - Latest methodologies in gene technology New risks? New uncertainties? New risk assessment?

    Techniques of genetic engineering have allowed significant reconstruction of organisms.

  8. 26 April 2017

    EBSA20 - Course L - Tools and tips for practical Biosafety Training

    The course will describe the basic principles of training to allow the particpants to develop and carryout internal Biosafety training programmes tailored to different audiences and to evaluate the effectiveness of the training.

  9. 26 April 2017

    EBSA20 - Course J - Risks of working with neural tissues from conformational neurodegenerative disorders: The prion paradigms

    Most neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer´s, Parkinson and prion diseases, are associated with unusual forms of proteins that may pose novel and unique biological risks.