EGU General Assembly 2023 GIFT Workshop

The EGU GIFT workshop will take place over two and a half days during the EGU General Assembly (April 24-26, Vienna). Selected top-level scientists working in the Earth sciences offer the invited teachers talks centred on a specific theme.

In 2023 the topic will be: ‘The key role of geosciences for the global challenge of sustainable development: the Agenda 2030’. Some goals described in the Agenda 2030 will be presented as education, climate changes, energy, water life, pure water, terrestrial life and natural risks.

GIFT 2023 will propose lectures, hands-on activities and a poster session for around 80 teachers selected in Europe and beyond. The selected teachers can participate either in person at the GIFT workshop or online.

The main objective of the GIFT workshops is to spread first-hand scientific information to science teachers of secondary (and primary) 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 and the direct contact with world leading geoscientists are expected to stimulate curiosity towards scientific research that the teachers then transmit to their pupils.

Teachers and educators from Europe and around the world can apply to participate in GIFT from 7 November 2022 until 18 December 2022 by filling in an online application form. Successful teachers receive a partial travel and accommodation stipend to attend the workshop and will be notified of the results of their application at the end of December.

This workshop will illustrate a theme in the Earth, planetary and space sciences, through topical presentations from scientists at the cutting-edge of research, together with hands-on teaching activities.

Please see the full brochure (PDF document, 3.2 MB) for more details.

Monday, 24 April 2023

• Welcome
  

  Helen Glaves (EGU President)
  Jean Luc Berenguer (Chair of the EC)

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 1.1 MB)
• Introduction on the Agenda 2030
  

  Jonghwi Park (UN University, Tokyo, Japan)

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 1.6 MB)
• The ocean and its ecosystems, climate change and the sustainable development goals
  

  Laurent Bopp (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 5.9 MB)
• Equitable education for all: teachers as leaders of change
  

  Clara Vasconcelos (University of Porto, Portugal)

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 4.2 MB)
• Gender equality in geosciences
  

  Lena Abrahamsson (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 5.0 MB)
• Agenda2030@school: Liceo Spallanzani
  

  Luigi De Filippis (Spallanzani Scientific High-School, Tivoli, Italy)

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 10.1 MB)
• The circular city challenge project
  

  Antonija Bogadi (SYNYO Gmbh, Vienna, Austria)

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 705.2 KB)
• Hands-on activities: Past climates through analysis of marine microfossils and their isotope compositions evaluating
  

  Stephen Macko (University of Virginia, USA)
• Hands-on activities: AKMA2-oceansenses: an expedition in the Arctic Ocean, learning-through-research
  

  Giuliana Panieri (The Arctic University of Norway)
• Hands-on activities: Tuned into the Earth from the school: data mining at school
  

  Jean Luc Berenguer (Université Côte d’Azur, France)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.0 MB)

Tuesday, 25 April 2023

• The role of energy in sustainable development
  

  Jarmo Kikstra (Imperial College London, UK)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 7.1 MB)
• The predictability of European heat waves
  

  Andreas Fink (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 7.9 MB)
• An expedition in the arctic ocean to promote the sustainable development goals
  

  Giuliana Panieri (The Arctic University of Norway)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.9 MB)
• How to integrate the SDGs in STEM lessons – New teaching material with hands-on examples
  

  Daniela Neumann (Science on Stage Deutschland)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 3.9 MB)
• Hands-on activities: Presentation and practical exercise: "How to use digital maps of the diercke international atlas to develop SDGg awareness in the classroom"
  

  Björn Richter (Westermann Textbook Publishers, Germany)
• Hands-on activities: Geoscience practical activities on natural hazards in a rapidly changing world
  

  EGU Field Officers Team

  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.8 MB)

Wednesday, 26 April 2023

• The river basin as a living organism
  

  Hubert H.G. Savenije (Delft University of Technology)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 5.8 MB)
• The major challenges for ensuring a sustainable use of freshwater under change
  

  Alberto Montanari (Università di Bologna, Italy)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 5.1 MB)
• Presentation of the EGU committee on education activities
  
  • Presentation (PDF document, 815.8 KB)
• Challenges and perspectives for the science of volcanoes in the current decade
  

  Paolo Papale (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 8.7 MB)
• Earthquake hazard and societal risk
  

  Domenico Giardini (ETH Zürich)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 9.0 MB)
• EPOS: A novel geoscience open data platform for a better understanding of planet Earth
  

  Daniele Bailo, Rosanna Paciello, Carmela Freda (EPOS team)

  • Presentation (PDF document, 11.9 MB)

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