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Chat Calendar 2008-2009
This chat calendar is provisional and comprises the chat sessions that may take place on our website during this school year (2008-2009). The chat sessions aim to facilitate communication between schools in Europe and a number of experts. The chats will focus on energy related themes, how design and materials influence energy consumption and contribute to finding sustainable energy solutions. The chat calendar is accompanied by some additional information on registration, pre-chat sessions and guidelines.
1. Provisional chat calendar
Chat session no. 1
Plastics, chemistry and climate protection
Age group: 12-20
Date: 27 November 2008
Time: 15.00 CET
Guest: Anton de Vries, PlasticsEurope Vice President and President Polyolefins Europe, LyondellBasell Industries
Language: English
Support information: Plastics, chemistry and climate protection
Chat transcript
Chat session no. 2
Plastics, the performance materials
Age group: 12-20
Date: 2 December 2008
Time: 14.00 CET
Guest: Thomas Schmidt, a former Olympics Champion at slalom canoe (2000 Summer Olympics, More on his personal website)
Language: English
Support information: Plastics, performance material in sports and aviation
Chat transcript
Chat session no. 3
Chat topic: How materials are shaping the design of the future
Guest: Agata Ruiz de La Prada
December 2008
Chat session no. 4
Chat topic: Connecting energy and environment with education
Guest: Commissioner Jan Figel’
January 2009
Chat session no. 5
Chat topic: Fantastic plastic
Guest: Averil MacDonald
February 2009
Chat session no. 6
Chat topic: EU, Environment and Energy – who can make a difference?
Guest: MEP Holger Krahmer
March 2009
Chat session no. 7
Chat topic: Plastics industry and youths - working together to find solutions
Guest: Lorenzo di Lorenzi Borealis
April 2009
Chat session no. 8
Chat topic: Solar impulse or how to fly around the world without fuel
Guest: Bertrand Piccard
May 2009
2. Purpose of the chats
The key purpose of these activities is to encourage teachers to integrate chats, as online lessons, into their teaching to enhance their curriculum and therefore enable their students to experience concrete communication situations with peers and experts from other countries.
The second purpose of the chat activities is to create a context that aims to support the debate activities that are open to all schools in Europe. The debates are organised around nine themes which have common points with the chat topics.
3. Pre-chat sessions
To help classes get familiar with the chat and debate themes, the FuturEnergia programme team encourages all interested schools to take part in pre-chat sessions that are scheduled before the chat activities.
The purpose of the pre-chat sessions is to facilitate dialogues among the schools that are willing to exchange and share ideas, views and opinions around the chat and debate themes.
The participants who will be accepted to take part in will get more information by email. The chat guests are not invited to take part in the pre-chat sessions.
4. Registration
The chats are open to students from 12 to 20 years of age. The communication language of the chats is English (More details on chats as classroom activities).
At present this page is available only in English, which is the communication language of the chat sessions. The teachers who would like to take part in with their classes should register by sending an email to Petru Dumitru at: futurenergia@eun.org
The email should contain the following information:
Chat session no.
Guest name
School name
Town
Country
Students' age
Teacher name
Teacher e-mail
Phone number during the chat
The FuturEnergia programme team reserves the right of selecting 1-2 schools per country to allow participants to represent as many countries as possible.
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