GTTP during COSPAR 2012
COSPAR 2012 – Pannel of Education Session – 17 and 18 July 2012, @ Mysore
There will be a special GTTP session during the next COSPAR (COMMITTEE ON SPACE RESEARCH) Assembly that will take place in Mysore from 15th to 22nd of July. This session is integrated in the scope of the COSPAR Panel of education sessions PE-1 and PE-2. The training session will take place in the framework of session PE-2.
This will be the first teacher training session promoted by the Panel of Education (PE). The PE vision is to establish a strong and sustainable support network with the mission to integrate space research in science curricula across the world, empowering educators for this cutting edge task.
Open Discovery Space
Starting this April the Galileo Teacher Training Programme will have the opportunity to take part of this new European Commission funded project. The Open Discovery Space intends to be a multilingual e-learning infrastructure that stimulates and engages teachers, students and parents in a new learning experience.
Discover the Cosmos – Bringing cutting edge science to schools across Europe
Several Global Hands-on Universe partners (France, Portugal, UK) are taking part on this European proposal that aims to introduce a new learning experience of science topics in school. This project, funded by the European Commission, will demonstrate ways to involve teachers and students in the use of existent e-infrastructures and reproduce in students the thrill of a scientific discovery.
GTTP Morroco 2011
Two GTTP training workshops took place in Morocco in 2011. The first one was in October 19th at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. Representative teachers and one school director from 2 primary schools, one middle school and two high schools (9 persons in total) in Ifrane and the nearby city Azrou, were introduced to the GTTP program and benefited from a hands on observational training using a telescope.
Another GTTP training was organized in Dec 12th, 2011 in the Oukaïmenden observatory located in the High Atlas Mountains near Marrakech.