Summer workshop for secondary school teachers
The European Space Agency is providing many innovative and inspiring aids to teachers to enhance their curriculum with space related subjects. Now ESA is inviting educators to a summer workshop at its establishment in the Netherlands from 28 to 30 June 2010.
ESA’s Directorate of Human Spaceflight has been using the International Space Station as a 'classroom in space' for many educational events and for the production of educational material made available to teachers, science educators and all interested. ISS will continue in orbit till at least 2020 – and the educational side of the ISS will be even stonger in the future as the focus of the ISS activities is being turned from construction to routine operation.
Summer workshop series
To facilitate this on-going support to European educators and to bring in new ideas, the Directorate of Human Spaceflight will begin a series of summer workshops for teachers. The first of these will be held this summer at ESA’s largest establishment, the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands from 28 to 30 June.
Secondary school teachers from the ESA Member States are invited to apply for a limited number of places. The ESA Member States are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
Interested secondary school teachers are asked to fill in a application form in which they will need to send a short testimonial as to why they would make a suitable candidate for this workshop. The deadline for registration is 1 June and the successful candidates will be informed by 4 June 2010.
For more information on this summer workshop and how to apply, please use the following link.
