Hello and welcome to this onboarding video that will walk you through
how to use JOGL for the iGEM 2020 program
As you may know, iGEM is offering a special prize this year
for teams who structure their projects around the SDGs,
the sustainable development goals set out by the United Nations.
Essentially, if you focus your project on meeting one or a few of the sustainable
development goals, or if you evaluate your project across
other SDGs in terms of the impact of your project
on these sustainable development goals, you are eligible
for the special prize. The idea here is also to get the iGEM community
to focus its energy increasingly on the sustainable development goals
because the world really needs to help tackle these complex
challenges, and there's help needed from the iGEM community as well. So, iGEM
is really hoping that your projects will not only show impact but also that
future teams can add to your work,
and move forward even faster in meeting
the sustainable development challenges that our world is facing.
As a collaboration partner, JOGL offers a platform
to foster open collaboration between iGEM
teams.
During this short video, we will go over what is JOGL,
we will take a tour of JOGL as a platform,
we will also look at other onboarding documents and support available to you
for the iGEM program
JOGL is a non-profit organization based in Paris, France, but operates globally.
but operates globally. We're an open laboratory,
and at our core we are open-source, and we support open citizen-driven
science. We strive for global impact in all of our activities and we support
all of our project teams in reaching that goal as well.
JOGL and iGEM have a common mission around
open science, and they have a common belief that open science really holds an important key
in achieving the sustainable development goals.
That's what led to this collaboration.
Let's take a quick tour of JOGL and
the iGEM 2020 program.
Here we are on the JOGL app platform,
here you can view members, projects, needs, groups, challenges, and programs. To find
the iGEM 2020 program,
click on programs and select iGEM 2020.
Every JOGL program is organized with challenges, projects,
needs, and members. You can click through the different challenges
of the iGEM 2020 program here. The challenges provide
a thematic framework that are usually aligned
with the SDGs. In this particular case, we have challenges for industrial
SDGs, environmental, fundamental
and socioeconomic.
These different challenges will house
the projects that are relevant to that theme. If you
are an iGEM team member looking to launch your iGEM
project on JOGL to be eligible for the
SDG special prize,
go to the iGEM 2020 program on the JOGL platform, click on the challenge that is
most applicable to your iGEM project,
click on submit a project, and if you
have an existing project, you can go
ahead and select that and click on submit. If you don't have an
existing project, click on create a project and follow the
steps to launch your project on JOGL to be
eligible for the SDGs special prize. To view all of the projects active
on iGEM 2020, select projects on the left.
Here you can see the project name, a
short description, how many members are active in the
project, and if the project has a
specific
need that they're looking to fill.
As a member, you can contact the project
team and discuss how you can help.
As a project lead or project
team member, you can also post your need.
by creating account and creating a
project and posting your need.
To learn more about the iGEM 2020
program,
you can take a look at this page here,
this about page that has
more information on the timeline,
important dates,
references,
as well as a background on iGEM as a
whole.
if you're active on the iGEM 2020
program on JOGL,
don't forget to share many updates on a
regular basis.
News and updates is what makes your
project succeed
on JOGL. Different members will see your
news and updates
and will know that your project is
active. If you have a specific need,
you can also share that as an update
or if your project is moving forward and
if your new collaborators are helping
you meet your challenges and achieve
your goals,
share that as an update as well!
For more information on how to onboard
the program or if you have other
questions, you can take a look at this
onboarding guide
available on the iGEM 2020 program page.
if you have further questions and would
like to contact iGEM 2020 directly,
you can click on the contact button
available right here.
Best of luck in your project and in iGEM
2020!
Thank you for watching!
