Webinars on Ecology, Environment, Climate Change and Climate Action for schools around the world.
In 2020-2022 LeWiBo developed a special educational programme - webinars on ecology, climate change and global warming for high school students. The webinars take place in different languages (mostly English). The full programme and upcoming webinars can be found below. Also, you can watch the videos of the past webinars.
NEW LECTURES ANNOUNCED! REGISTER TO ATTEND IN MAY 2022!
"Cultiver la diversité de plantes alimentaires pour construire une agriculture durable" with Adeline Barnaud
Tuesday 10th of May, 1 PM CET
Language: French
Age range: 12+
Dr. Adeline Barnaud is a researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development. She is interested in the history of cultivated plants. How have human societies shaped the diversity of plants and how will this diversity allow us to build a sustainable agriculture in the face of climate change?
"Abrupt events and Hothouse earth"
with Shruti Setty
Wednesday 11th of May, 2PM CET
Language: English
Age range: 12 -17
Shruti Setty is a PhD candidate at Wageningen University, in the Department of Environmental Sciences.
"Energy efficiency and the climate change" with Stanley Okoro
Tuesday 17th of May, 1 PM CET
Language: English
Age range: 16+
Dr. Stanley Uchenna Okoro is a Climate Strategy & Renewable Energy expert. He has a Ph.D. in Earth System Science from the University of Hamburg Germany. His research and consultancy work are centred on Science Based Targets Development, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Accounting, Renewable Energy System. He is committed to providing information that helps students, direct management, policy, and decision-making towards sustainability, aiming to make an impactful contribution to society and the planet.
"The role of the ocean in the Earth's climate"
with Daan Boot
Thursday 19th of May, 2PM CET
Language: English
Age range: 11 -15
Daan Boot is a PhD student at the Institute of Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU) affiliated to Utrecht University. She does research in the marine carbon cycle and the Earth's climate and feedbacks between the two. She has a degree in Hydraulic Engineering and in Climate Physics. She volunteers at a local Scouting group, first as a youth leader and now as a board member.
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PREVIOUS LECTURES TO WATCH ON DEMAND
2021/2022 school year
"How to link extreme weather events and climate change" with Davide Faranda
Language: English
Age range: 15+
"The science of climate change" with Luke Surl
Language: English
Age range: 11+
"Everyday sustainable practices and climate change" with Maria Skivko
Language: Russian
Age range: 11+
"Open Litter Map - A revolutionary App to Map Litter and Plastic Pollution" with Sean Lynch
Language: English
Age range: 11+
"Climate change imaginarium" with Jenifer Wightman
Language: English
Age range: 15+
"How can plants and soil help fight climate change?" with Timofey Chernov
Language: Russian
Age range: 12+
"Engaging with the Anthropocene: which scientific approaches to guide students?" with Alexis Tantet & Joan Delort Ylla
Language: English
Age range: FOR TEACHERS ONLY
"An introduction to climate change" with Beniamino Abis
Language: English
Age range: 10+
2020/2021 school year
Timofey Chernov, "Climate Change, Global Overview"
Timofey Chernov, "Climate change: 4 main questions"
Alexis Tantet, "Climate change: a great challenge of the Anthropocene"
Alexis Tantet, "Imagining possible, just and desirable futures"
Diana Vladimirova, "Greenhouse gases and global warming"
Davide Faranda, "Extreme events in the climate system: a dynamical systems approach"
Beniamino Abis, "Climate Change and Climate Detectives"
Diana Vladimirova, "Methane bomb - is it a real threat?"
WHY DO WE DO IT?
We aim to help students to raise their awareness and understanding of the global ecology, main threats and perspectives of the current situations and to inspire them to create their own projects in order to live conscious life and to save the planet.
We develop a series of webinars in English, Russian, French that will be offered for free to schools and universities as well as to educational associations that work with high school students. The webinars will be recorded and placed on website and social media to make them accessible for more students and schools as open online lectures. We will add new material building on the existing capacity found at the general library collection. This library contains video lectures and online materials curated by the Lecturers without borders association. Our network of collaborators around the globe includes more than 8000 schools in more than 20 countries.
Students will be invited by their institutions and participation will be entirely optional. We will coordinate all activities, adapting the content to the specific requests of each institution and to the prior knowledge of the students.
The webinars will be interactive and the students will have the opportunity to send us questions beforehand in order to actively participate in determining the content of each session.
The project is in line with the main activities of the organization as we do focus on organizing free outreach scientific lectures for the high schools. Historically Lecturers without Borders have deep roots in both Russia and France working especially close with scientists from the two countries. Therefore, the database of the project includes a decent amount of high schools in both countries where it could be possible to arrange lectures in English, Russian or French.
We target to organize and record at least 10 high-quality webinars with leading researchers around the globe from France and Russia.