IPY (International Polar Year March 2007- March 2009):

1. uni.lu Université du Luxembourg FNR Fonds National de la Recherche MNHN Musée national d’histoire naturelle COLUPO Comité Luxembourgeois pour l’Année Polaire Internationale invite to a POLAR EducationandTeachers Day Thursday November 23rd, 2006 Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg/Grund 15h00 - 15h30: Opening, Georges Bechet (MNHN); Antoine Kies (COLUPO), Frank Wagner (FNR), Lucien Hoffmann (CRP Gabriel Lippmann), Hugo Decleir (European Polar Board) 15h30 - 16h00: German Education and Outreach Program by Dr. Margarete Pauls, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, AWI (Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar und Meeresforschung) 16h00 - 16h30: Le programme français ECO, actions en direction des jeunes,Alain Lesquer,Service Communication,Institut Polaire Français 16h30 - 17h00: Coffee break 17h30 - 18h00: The Swedish program with special emphasis on student exchange possibilities, Helena Lilja, International Coordination IPY 18h00 - 18h30: Polish Education and Outreach program in Arctic Regions by Jacek Jania, Polish National Committee for IPY 18h30 - :Discussions around a brunch Bitter cold winds whip the earth's polar regions, the Arctic in the north and the Antarctic in the south. - The core of the Arctic is a great ocean -- the Arctic Ocean -- parts of which are covered all year round by ice that drifts about the North Pole. The Arctic Ocean has many thousands of big and small islands and is almost surrounded by land: the northern parts of Europe, Asia and North America. - The Antarctic is an isolated continent surrounding the South Pole. Most of Antarctica's land lies beneath ice and snow almost two km thick. It has high mountains and glaciers. IPY (International Polar Year March 2007- March 2009): Determine the present environmental status of the Polar Regions by quantifying their spatial and temporal variability, quantify and understand past and present environmental (and human) change A huge number of international educational projects will take place during IPY by Polar Institutions and National IPY Committees around the world (http://www.ipy.org/). The Polar Education and Teachers Day informs on these projects and on the possibilities for Luxembourg teachers, educators and students (primary, secondary, university) to participate and to contribute in an active way to IPY (*) For organization reasons, please do a pre inscription at antoine.kies@uni.lu before November 20th