Micromundo: Aprendizaje-servicio a la búsqueda de nuevos antibióticos

espanolLa iniciativa SWI&MicroMundo, innovadora en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, consiste en la busqueda de bacterias productoras de nuevos antibioticos para luchar contra la ineficacia de muchos tratamientos antimicrobianos debido al fenomeno de la resistencia bacteriana. El exito ha sido tal que se han incorporado 25 universidades espanolas y 5 portuguesas. La red tiene actualmente 30 nodos. En nuestro pais se implanto como proyecto de Aprendizaje-Servicio para abordar el problema de salud global de las multirresistencias a los antibioticos. Su objetivo es acercar la cultura cientifica y la investigacion biomedica a jovenes estudiantes para fomentar vocaciones cientificas, mediante actividades experimentales dirigidas al aislamiento de microorganismos del suelo productores de nuevos antibioticos. EnglishSWI&Tiny Earth, a ground-breaking initiative of Universidad Complutense, consist of the search of new antibiotics produced by bacteria to fight against the disturbing crisis caused for the lack of effectiveness of many antimicrobial treatments due to bacterial resistance. This initiative has been so successful that 25 Spanish and 5 Portuguese universities have been incorporated. Nowadays, the Tiny Earth net is composed by 30 teams. In Spain, Tiny Earth was introduced as a Service-Learning project to deal with the global health problem of the multiresistance to antibiotics. Its main objective is to approach scientific culture and biomedical research to young students to promote scientific vocations by experimental activities managed to the isolating of new antibiotics produced by microorganisms from the soil.