First impression ;)

Hi, we have just received a new photo of and from our Swiss organizers. We wish them good luck again ;) Keep checking this blog and the SymBioSE website for updates!

p.s. Looks like a picture from '90s, doesn't it?

The video

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Hi, Symbionts!

Here is, probably, the key link for a tourist coming to Switzerland: switzerland.com. Please also pay your attention to swissworld.org and swissinfo.ch . They are presented in English and seem to be very informative. As for me, I liked them very much - and that is not an advertisement ;)

Sincerely,

Your administrator.

SymBioSE 2011 website

Dear Symbionts,

We have already updated our main page and currently are working on the SymBioSE 2011 site. Having all general data and now we are just trying to organize it in the most accurate way. We are also constructing so called "national SymBioSE web page" for Switzerland. In the past, there were much more national pages that contained information about biological research in precise countries. It will be nice if we revive this tradition. If you want to help us, send an e-mail to symbiose.adm@gmail.com and we'll generate a your national web page together. This pages may be very useful for foreign biology students that are about to continue their career in your country.

General requirements are listed here: http://www.symbiose.eu.org/national.html

In 2 days we are planning to upload some photos from SymBioSE 2010 in Turkey to our Picasa albums, be sure to check them out!

Sincerely,
Dinar

The Swiss crew

SymBioSE 2011 organizers:

Joelle Sprunger
Raphael Thurnheer
Florian Heer
Micha Eichmann
Stefanie J. Krauth
Armando Lenz

Good luck!

Joelle's announcement

My dear Symbionts,

How are you doing? I guess most of you are back home and are trying to adjust to normal life.. I think “lovesick” would describe best how I feel right now, because I miss SymBioSE and all you guys so much!!

But I found 2 cures to deal with this heartsickness:

1. Relive all those happy moments with the photos on Facebook :) and listen to Murat Dalkilic “La Fontaine”;
2. Be a Symbiont all year through.

For me and the Swiss team this means: use all the energy gained in Turkey for the organization of the next SymBioSE in Switzerland.

For you this means: stay engaged and help us!

As you know, we had several National Assemblies in this SymBioSE. During the 2nd and 3rd session, I was taking notes which I would like to share with you. I tried to catch as many personal statements as possible, because there is not one truth about SymBioSE and how it should look like, but each of us is a crucial part and together we shape SymBioSE. If you care about SymBioSE, please have a look at the minutes.

..and the second way of engagement:

For the continuation of SymBioSE it is very important to have new Symbionts every year. That means that we have to promote SymBioSE in all European biology faculties. Some years ago our SymBioSE friends invested a lot of effort and created an MS Excel file with all the addresses. So don’t worry – most of the work has already been done! It is just time to update and revise this document.

• Each country should define one representative who takes care of this task. This person will then check the sheet about his country only;
• Check if the contact information is still correct. Especially verify e-mail addresses! Try to fill gaps in the table and use the corresponding columns for street, code and city (sometimes they are in one column now);
• Add the contact information of your student associations;
• Use the first column to track if the information has been updated;
• Please send the file back to me (or to symbiose.adm@gmail.com) by the end of September 2010.

Thank you all for your commitment to SymBioSE! Hope to stay in touch with all of you!
Huge symbiontic hug!
Joelle

Downloads:

SymBioSE 2010 National Assembly 2 (PDF, 397 kb)
SymBioSE 2010 National Assembly 3 (PDF, 378 kb)

List of Biology Faculties in Europe (05.10.2010; XLS, 556 kb)

Contacts

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