Upcoming Training Courses

Our online training courses runs several times a year and is delivered in six-week blocks. You can enrol on one, two or all three modules, depending on your needs and experience.

Participants taking two or more modules are invited to an end-of-course drop-in session. This is an opportunity to refine your survey aims, stress-test your methodology, and get expert feedback before planning your next eDNA project.

If you have a group of five or more people and would like online training outside our scheduled teaching blocks, please get in touch. We can arrange a private course tailored to your needs.

Private in-person training can also be arranged for small groups.

Important Information

Courses

Booking form

Please fill in the form to request a place on a course. Submitting the form doesn’t automatically secure your place, we’ll first send you our Terms and Conditions and a payment link. Your place is guaranteed once payment has been made.

Please read our note on our pricing structure and 'pay-it-forward' fund below.*

*A note on our pricing

To make our training as accessible as possible, we have kept our prices as low as we can. We use a tiered pricing structure based on country income levels, with reduced rates available for participants from middle-income countries, and free courses for those from low-income countries. This helps ensure that practitioners working in biodiversity-rich but resource-limited regions can access the same high-quality eDNA training and tools. If you are able, you can choose to “pay-it-forward”, which directly supports places for trainees in low-income countries.

If you are based in a middle-income country and cannot afford the course fee, please get in touch – we may be able to support you through our pay-it-forward fund.

Each online course is limited to a maximum of 30 participants, with up to 65% of places reserved for participants from mid and low-income countries.

Low-income countries (LI) - Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, North Korea, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Uganda, Yemen.

Middle-income countries (MI) - Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Fiji, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Maldives, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Republic of the Congo, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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