FEBS Education Platform

• Efstathios Efstathopoulos, Prof., Vice-Rector for Administrative Affairs & Student Welfare, NKUA (Greece)
• Ioannis Trougakos, NKUA (Greece)
• Dimitris Kletsas, HSBMB-NCSRD (Greece)
• Ferhan Sağın, Chair of FEBS Education and Training Committee (Turkey)

• What does FEBS Education and Training Committee offer to educators of all stages? — Ferhan Sağın

SESSION I: Active learning — Chaired by Ferhan Sağın and Dimitris Kletsas

• Maximizing engagement: active learning approaches for large classes — Manuel João Costa, Prof., Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
  30 min + 5 min Q&A
• Digital tools: your allies for active learning — Ali Burak Özkaya, Assoc. Prof., School of Medicine, Izmir University of Economics (Turkey)
  30 min + 5 min Q&A
• Storytelling as a pedagogical tool in nature of science instruction — Evangelia Mavrikaki, Prof., Biology & Health Education, Dept. of Pedagogy and Primary Education, NKUA (Greece)
  20 min + 5 min Q&A
• Creativity and innovation in higher education — Thomas Babalis, Prof., Dept. of Pedagogy and Primary Education, NKUA; Konstantina Tsoli, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Pedagogy and Primary Education, NKUA (Greece)
  20 min + 5 min Q&A
• Open discussion
  15 min

SESSION II: Artificial intelligence in education — Chaired by Ioannis Trougakos and Manuel João Costa

• The future of biochemical education in the AI era — Robert Harris, Prof., Academic Vice President of Doctoral Education at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
  40 min + 5 min Q&A
• Teaching GenAI as the next digital skill — David Smith, Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
  40 min + 5 min Q&A
• Open discussion
  30 min

Parallel workshops:

SESSION III: Postgraduate education, academic integrity, bioethics and ethical
considerations in education — Chaired by Emanuel Fragoulis

• Post-graduate education: training tomorrow’s scientists — Gül Güner, Professor, School of Medicine, Izmir University of Economics, (Turkey)
  30 min + 5 min Q&A
• Ethics at the heart of training of scientists: a crucial issue for the future of research — Xavier Coumoul, Professor of Biochemistry and Toxicology, University Paris Descartes (France)
  30 min + 5 min Q&A
• Promoting active teaching and learning through socio-scientific issues — Martha Georgiou, Laboratory Teaching Stuff, Faculty of Biology, NKUA (Greece)
  20 min + 5 min Q&A
• Transforming a biochemistry lecture into a virtual lab — Paschalis Doulias, Assoc. Prof., Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina; Institute of Biosciences, University Research Center of Ioannina; HSBMB, Education programs (Greece)
  20 min + 5 min Q&A

Short talks

• 4× 10 min

Open discussion and closing remarks.