Education Committee

Higher Education Resource: Project Design for Research and Community Projects

Simon Clark September 23, 2024

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

Friedrich Barnikel February 2, 2024

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]

Meet the EGU Education Committee!

Simon Clark May 26, 2023

Members of the EGU Education Committee From top-left to bottom-right: Giuliana Panieri, Carlo Laj, Annegret Schwarz, Teresita Gravina, Francesca Funiciello, Stavros Stathopoulos

The EGU’s Education Committee (EC) helps to bring science to educators, from higher education funding grants and coordinating training programmes to bringing teachers to Vienna to participate in the annual GIFT (Geoscience Information For Teachers) workshop and meet with scientists at the EGU General Assembly. In this article, six of the volunteer committee members reflect on what it’s ...[Read More]

What is GIFT? The Education Committee’s Jean-Luc Berenguer & Phil Smith explain

Simon Clark March 30, 2022

Jean-Luc Berengeur and Phil Smith

EGU’s annual Geoscience Information For Teachers (GIFT) workshop will take place between 4 – 8 April 2022, with the theme of “How the planet shapes history – Geosciences, human society and civilizations”. To find out more about what GIFT is and get a taster for the workshop’s content EGU’s Programme Coordinator, Simon Clark, talked with two of the organisers: th ...[Read More]