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Multilingual education of students on a global scale and perspective—international networking on the example of bioindication and biomonitoring (B&B technologies)

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Living or formerly living organisms are being used to obtain information on the quality of the general health status of our environment by bioindication and biomonitoring methods for many decades. Thus, different roads toward this common scientific goal were developed by a lot of different international research groups. Global cooperation in between various scientific teams throughout the world has produced common ideas, scientific definitions, and highly innovative results of this extremely attractive working field. The transdisciplinary approach of different and multifaceted scientific areas—starting from biology, analytical chemistry, via health physics, up to social and economic issues—have surpassed mental barriers of individual scientists, so that “production” of straightforward common results related to the influence of material and immaterial environmental factors to the well-being of organisms and human life has now reached the forefront of international thinking. For the further sustainable development of our common scientific “hobby” of bioindication and biomonitoring, highest personal energy has to be given by us, being teachers to our students and to convince strategically decision makers as politicians to invest (financially) into the development of education and research of this innovative technique. Young people have to be intensively convinced on the “meaning” of our scientific doing, e.g., by extended forms of education. One example of multilingual education of students on a global scale and perspective is given here, which we started about 3 years ago.

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Acknowledgements

We are thankful to all colleagues around the world supporting our ideas for many years by their prudent, constructive critic and advices for getting bioindication and biomonitoring methods which gets more and more into common practical use for human benefit and sustainable management on an international and transdisciplinary level. Additionally, we gratefully acknowledge the innovative commentaries given by the reviewers.

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  1. Environmental Institute of Scientific Networks, Fliederweg 17, 49733, Haren, Germany

    Bernd Markert & Simone Wuenschmann

  2. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio al. 11, 10223, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Edita Baltrėnaitė

  3. Institute of Experimental Biology, Department of Genetics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland

    Ewa Chudzińska

  4. Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Department for Biology, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 25 de Mayo, 2855, Mar del Plata, Argentina

    Silvia De Marco

  5. Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Environmental Biogeochemistry, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637, Poznań, Poland

    Jean Diatta

  6. Faculty of Environment and Energy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hesarak, 1477893855, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

    Zahra Ghaffari

  7. Department of Botany and Plant Growing, L.N. Tolstoy Tula State, Pedagogical University, 125 Lenin Avenue, 300026, Tula, Russian Federation

    Svetlana Gorelova

  8. Instituto Argentino de Oceanografia (IADO - CONICET/UNS), Camino La Carrindanga km 7, B 8000 FWB, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

    Jorge Marcovecchio

  9. Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia, Raiņa bulvāris 19, Riga, 1050, Latvia

    Guntis Tabors

  10. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 52 Sanlihe Rd., 100864, Beijing, China

    Meie Wang

  11. Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Sohag University, 82524, Sohag, Egypt

    Naglaa Yousef

  12. International Institute Zittau, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences; Research Group of Theoretical and Environmental Chemistry, Technical University of Dresden, Markt 23, D-02763, Zittau, Germany

    Stefan Fraenzle

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Markert, B., Baltrėnaitė, E., Chudzińska, E. et al. Multilingual education of students on a global scale and perspective—international networking on the example of bioindication and biomonitoring (B&B technologies). Environ Sci Pollut Res 21, 5450–5456 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-013-2132-9

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