Identity area
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Date(s)
- 1966 - 2017 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
98 boxes of paper materials, digital material, and textiles.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Course Committee was first appointed by council on May 8th 1965, in order to manage funds the organisation were to receive from the Volkswagen Foundation in December of that year . The structure of the grant allocated funding for Courses and Workshops, the former providing laboratory training in new scientific techniques, and the latter being more informal meetings, bringing scientists together and offering them the opportunity to learn and present new discoveries. The remit of the department has expanded over time, now encompassing keynote lectures, conferences, training, and scientific training conducted in non-EMBC countries. EMBO also formed partnerships with other organisations to offer training courses, including symposia offered in collaboration with the European Science Foundation (ESF), and Plenary Lectures organised alongside the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS).
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection covers the activities of the Courses and Workshops department at EMBO from 1966-2024.
The ”Course Committee” series is mostly comprised of agendas, minutes, and correspondence and runs from 1966-2024. Paper records for the years up to 2010 are stored in the archive and subsequent years are stored as digital files.
The series concerning courses, workshops, and other events contain correspondence, funding applications, programs, lists of participants, coursebooks, financial and scientific reports, survey analyses, and posters. These materials run from 1972-2014, although references to events outside of this timeframe may be found in the Course Committee files.
The collection is comprised almost entirely of paper materials, but occasionally contain other materials such as floppy disks, CD-ROMS, and t shirts.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
This collection is arranged at the file level. Materials after 2012 have not yet been appraised. The original file names, eg. C/1995/1, denoting the type of event, the year, and the number of the event in question, have been retained as identifiers.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Restricted - Certain materials may be available online. Other materials are accessible to registered researchers subject to an approved access request. Visitors must fill out a request form and sign the Archives Access Terms and Conditions.
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Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
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Related units of description
EMBO conducted joint courses with its sister organisation EMBL: https://archive.embl.org/index.php/informationobject/browse?creators=635&collection=606&topLod=0&sort=relevance&query=embo&sq0=embo&sortDir=desc
There are also materials related to the Course Committee as part of Oxford’s Kendrew Papers:
https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/151159