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OUR VALUES
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Hi reader! Here you can find more about the values and principles that shaped our iGEM experience and project.
Specifically, we want to celebrate and share the values that we adopted as people and as scientists
Hope and positivity
The iGEM competition is always challenging and this year was no exception given the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID19 pandemic Surprisingly when we had to make a final decision over the continuation of the project everyone was committed to proceed regardless of the forthcoming challenges. In these harsh times, we fulfilled our duties of being full-time students, respected and followed the directives of our national and local authorities as responsible citizens of wider society, stayed close to the ones that we love as individuals that value maintaining healthy private lives and contributed to the advancement of synthetic biology as iGEMers. We embraced our daily challenges with the conviction that science, human advancements and social cohesion are the winning formula for a postCOVID future. And we want to extend our message of hope to the entirety of the community. Stay safe and stay Awesome!!
It’s gaein be awricht ance the pain has gane awa.’
Friendship
We think that approaching and participating in an iGEM competition by just being “colleagues” or “team-members” or by exclusively aiming to publish some papers or improve one’s CV is not the best basis to build a successful team. During the project team members were constantly making an effort to establish genuine connections between one another By recognising the value of friendship as one of the highest and most important aims of this competition, we want to celebrate our friendships and all the other friendships made by the other iGEMers around the globe.
Purpose
We do things with a sense of meaning and purpose, we know that what we do will have an impact that goes beyond our University's walls.
While our wiki wants to explain "WHAT" we did and "HOW" we dit it we wanted to explain to you ""WHY"".
We believe in iGEM's mission and we love science and synthetic biology but this is not enough for us we want to bet our lives, careers on synthetic biology and we want to challenge and be challenged.
We want to prove that we can change the world one e.coli extract at a time or that the messiest lines of code could miraculously work and do their job.
We want to prove that when stubborn and determined scientists and non-scientists work together nothing is beyond's synthetic biology reach.
Curiosity
We had so many questions too many perhaps.
Altruism
We cannot achieve our goals alone, and nobody should be left alone. We believe that when possible we should help others without necessarily expecting reciprocity.
We embraced the iGEM competition knowing that each team becomes part of a wider community.
We engaged with different iGEM teams and our team members volunteered to offer their time and expertise to other iGEM teams.
Even when the team reached the silver medal criteria "collaboration" our team members continued to be involved in other iGEMers' initiatives just because they were genuinely interested in contributing in causes that they deemed to be important.
Having "Altruism" as one of our values also meant that we celebrated and we still celebrate other's altruism.
During each interaction we tried to express our since warm and support to our fellow iGEMers and we hope of that our collaboration wiki page ( Collaborations) could be a token of appreciation to the iGEMers and iGEM teams that were close to us during these difficult times.
