Science on Stage 2013: sharing best-practice teaching ideas
From 25-28 April 2013, about 350 science teachers met in Slubice, Poland, during the Science on Stage festival.
The main focus of the event is to offer science and mathematics teachers a platform from which they will exchange teaching projects and network together. The projects presented at the festival in 2013 were selected from 25 European countries.
The Science on Stage festival gives teachers the opportunity to present their best-practice ideas…
Good news on membership
2012 saw three improvements on Individual Membership. The total number of new directly registered Individual Members increased by well over 500 in 2012, showing an upward trend since a dip in 2010.
Even better news as seen on the table and figure is that 24% of the new Individual Members are female, up from under 15% in 2009. We are therefore showing significant progress on both gender balance and overall numbers.
The cherry on the cake is that a carefully targeted conference, the International Conference on…
ALMA, an international partnership to discover space
After 10 years of construction the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array [ALMA] based in Chile was inaugurated on 13 March 2013. The ceremony marks the completion of all the major systems of the giant telescope and the formal transition from a construction project to a fully-fledged observatory.ALMA is funded by an international partnership comprised of the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere [ESO], by the U.S. National Science Foundation [NSF] and by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences [NINS] of Japan…
Festival of Science 2012 at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
The Festival of Science is the day when the Bauman Moscow State Technical University [BMSTU] opens it doors to numerous curious visitors and welcomes school children, high school graduates, and first-year university students.
BMSTU organised its second Festival of Science at the end of 2012. Every department of the university displayed information describing the research and education in science. Participants could also attend a variety of master classes, lectures, seminars and reports on different scientific topics, presented by senior students, postgraduates and…
Cyprus Physicists Society to join the European Physical Society
The Cyprus Physicists Society [CPS] was presented at EPS Council 2013 as a possible new – the 42nd – Member Society of the EPS.
The CPS president, Dr. Manolis Lioudadkis illustrated the history, membership and activities of this small society. With around 300 members, mostly pre-university teachers, the CPS is engaged in many education and outreach programmes, such as F1 for schools and the International Physics Olympiads…
16th EPS General Meeting
The 16th EPS General Meeting will be held on 28 October 2013 in Budapest, Hungary at the Danubius Hotel Flamenco 1113 Budapest, Tas vezér tér 3-7. The meeting begins at 14:00.
The meeting is open to all EPS Members: Member Societies, Individual Members and Associate Members. Participants to the General Meeting can register through the 3rd European Energy Conference website.
The agenda for the meeting is: President’s Report; Honorary Secretary’s Report; Honorary Treasurer’s Report…
The Pathway to teaching science by inquiry
The Pathway project, financed under the 7th Framework Programme [FP7] is exploring new approaches to inquiry-based science education [IBSE]. Based on the examination of best practices in IBSE, Pathway aims to promote the effective widespread use of inquiry and problem based science teaching techniques in primary and secondary schools in Europe. Running from 2011 to the end of 2013, the project consortium – the European Physical Society included – organizes workshops and events all over Europe and develops guidelines and resources.Amongst the Pathway tools, the ASK-Learning Design Tool [ASK-LDT] has been designed for teachers…
SEENET-MTP Network celebrate its 10th year during the BW2013
The new edition of the Balkan Workshop – “Beyond Standard Models” [BW2013] will be held this spring, from 25 to 29 April 2013, in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia.
The series of Balkan workshops has been a very important part of a project of the Southeastern European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics [SEENET-MTP]. Created in 2003, SEENET-MTP was the initiative of the University of Niš, Serbia, and the Scientists in Global Responsibility project (Wissenschaftler in Global Verantwortung)…
The number of EPS Individual Members has surpassed 3500
Since 2011, the European Physical Society [EPS] has been examining and testing various methods of increasing the number of individual members. On the occasion of some EPS conferences, as for instance the EPS High Energy Physics Division conference, participants have been effectively invited to become EPS individual members. Some EPS member societies, such as the Italian Physical Society [SIF], have been actively encouraging their young members to become at the same time EPS individual members.
Other initiatives will be implemented in 2013…
The EPS Executive Committee Meeting, February 2013
The European Physical Society’s Executive Committee [EPS ExCom] met on 1-2 February 2013 in the beautiful venue of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts in Barcelona, Spain. The ExCom was kindly and warmly welcomed by the president of the Academy, Ramon Pascual de Sans, EPS individual member since 1970!
Important points in the agenda of the meeting were, in particular, the EPS position paper on Horizon 2020 (see Editorial in this issue), the report commissioned by EPS to CEBR on the importance of physics to the economies…
Science: it’s a girl thing
On 21 June 2012, the European Commission launched its brand new EU–wide campaign “Women in Research and Innovation”. Under the slogan “Science: it’s a girl thing”, the first phase of the campaign aims at encouraging girls aged 13-18 to embrace a scientific school curriculum.
Women are still under-represented in research at a time when Europe needs more researchers to foster innovation and bolster its economy. The goal of the campaign “Science it’s a Girl Thing” is to attract young…
EPS conference in Munich attracts record submissions
The European Physical Society [EPS] through its Quantum Electronics and Optics Division [QEOD] organizes one of the world’s largest conferences in pure and applied optical physics, which has been held every 2 years in Munich, Germany, since 2001.
The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference [CLEO Europe-EQEC] is one of EPS’s flagship congress events, attracting the world’s pre-eminent scientists in optics and photonics…
