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What’s on at EGU25: highlights from the Outreach and Education Committees

April 23, 2025
What’s on at EGU25: highlights from the Outreach and Education Committees
Nina and Berry sculptures by Heike Jane Zimmermann

There are so many great events to participate in at EGU25 this year, in both on-site and virtual formats, that it can be very easy to feel overwhelmed. Whilst we encourage you to make good use of your Personal Programme to help organise your activities, we also reached out to several of EGU’s Committees that are responsible for specific other aspects of EGU’s activities, including the ...[Read More]

Friedrich Barnikel reflects on the final Geoscience Information For Teachers workshop in Cape Town

and October 18, 2024
Friedrich Barnikel reflects on the final Geoscience Information For Teachers workshop in Cape Town

The final edition of the capacity building Geoscience Information For Teachers (GIFT) workshop was held this year in Cape Town, South Africa. This three-year programme, an initiative by the EGU Education Committee, brought together local teachers and scientists to build a sustainable, long-term workshop series and network for teacher training in geoscience education. The 2024 theme was “Exploring ...[Read More]

Higher Education Resource: Project Design for Research and Community Projects

September 23, 2024
Higher Education Resource: Project Design for Research and Community Projects
Our job: Environment by Mari Keski-Nisula via Imaggeo

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) supports bringing science into the classroom at all learning levels, from schools to universities. Since the Higher Education Teaching grant programme launched in 2020, EGU has funded 24 projects to develop useful and freely available geoscience resources to university educators. This blog is part of a series of blogs highlighting the innovative and accessible ...[Read More]

Bringing scientists and teachers together for the Cape Town GIFT workshop

February 2, 2024
Bringing scientists and teachers together for the Cape Town GIFT workshop
Hands-on action at the Two Oceans Aquarium in GIFT Cape Town, 2023

Many teachers follow path writ by a particular diction, which reads “lifelong learning”. There is no other way, actually, to keep track of all of these fast changing issues and challenges of today’s world, which, in many ways, touch geoscientific topics (climate change, food security, geopolitics, to name but a few). Consequently many teachers are eager to learn from science as much as they can in ...[Read More]