International courses

Naturalis is a partner of DEST (Distributed European School of Taxonomy), which offers education to European students and professionals in the field of biodiversity, taxonomy, and collection management.

DEST is a consortium of several institutes that provide education on taxonomy, biodiversity, geological diversity, and nature conservation. It falls under CETAF (Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities), a European research network. In addition to Naturalis, DEST currently comprises natural history institutes from Belgium, Norway, Greece, France, and Hungary. Below you can find the courses that Naturalis is involved in and that are currently available.