This material was developed within the project STEM Continuous Professional Development at European Universities, number: 2020-1-PL01-KA203-081802 This material was done with the assistance of ChatGPT AI. The voice was generated using ElevenLabs AI. Some figures were generated with DALL-E AI.

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