The EGU Committee on Education organizes Geosciences Information For Teachers (GIFT) Workshops since 2003.
The GIFT workshop is two-and-a-half-day teacher enhancement workshops held in conjunction with EGU's annual General Assembly.

Selected top-level scientists working in the field of Earth Science will offer the invited teachers talks centered on a different theme every year.
The main objective of the GIFT workshops is to spread first-hand scientific information to science teachers of primary and secondary schools, significantly shortening the time between discovery and textbook, and to provide the teachers with material that can be directly transported to the classroom.
In addition, the full immersion of science teachers in a truly scientific context (EGU General Assemblies) and the direct contact with world leader geo-scientists are expected to stimulate curiosity towards scientific research that the teachers will transmit to their pupils.

Chairmen of the EGU Committee on Education:
Carlo Laj
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Carlo.Laj@lsce.ipsl.fr
http://gift.egu.eu/committee-on-education.html