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Events for schools
• National Program:
“Competition for Secondary Schools”, coordinated by Ilaria Ermolli (INAF/OAR)
• Schools of L'Aquila:
“Solar activity and geomagnetic storms”: students of the Istituto Superiore “D. Cotugno” (other schools will be involved in the next future) analyze solar activity, interplanetary structures, geomagnetic activity on the basis of space and ground-based heliophysical data and present their results in a public conference.
• Catania Astrophysical Observatory:
“Observe the sky and draw your emotions” – children up 10 years old are invited to send drawings on the Sun, the solar system or other astronomical objects. The drawings will be posted on an ad-hoc web page and the authors of the most interesting drawings will be awarded a prize (rules in italian).
• Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Catania University and Catania Astrophysical Observatory jointly promote the competition “A Solar presentation”: students of Secondary Schools are invited to prepare Power-Point presentations on the Sun and Sun-Earth relationships.
• European Competition for kids drawings (Elementary Schools) for the COST296/IHY Calendar - coordinated by INGV.
Advanced Training
The scientific programme “Series of Events on Relations in the Sun-Earth System and Space Weather” (SERSES) offers a coherent series of courses for young researchers in the years 2006-2009 in different disciplines which concur to the Sun-Earth relationships, and presents the solar–terrestrial environment as a global system in order to allow a significant improvement in the global knowledge of the entire system. SERSES courses will be organized at L'Aquila, in close cooperation, by the Consorzio Area di Ricerca in Astrogeofisica and the International School of Space Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario di Fisica Spaziale:
1) Spring 2006: The Physics of the Sun (i.e. The Active Sun on your Active Desktop)
2) Fall 2006: Solar Terrestrial Physics
3) Spring 2007: Magnetospheric dynamics (9-15 April 2007)
4) Fall 2007: Turbulence and Waves in Space Plasmas (9-15 September, 2007)
5) Spring 2008: Geomagnetism and Ionosphere
6) Fall 2008: Solar-terrestrial relations in Antarctica
The website of the italian coordination is opened: http://ihy.oato.inaf.it
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