7th EAAE Summer School          

Hall in Tirol, Austria, 25 -30 August 2003


Report on 7th EAAE International Summer School

The 7th EAAE International Summer School took place in Hall in Tirol from 23rd to 30th August 2003. Fifty participants from 15 European countries attended a group of activities related to "Astronomy in the Mountains". Teachers from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain and UK exchanged information on Teaching Astronomy field, spread over 2 General Lectures, 13 Workshops, 1 General Working Group, 2 Observations and 1 Poster session.

General Lectures

  1. COSMIC RADIATION
  2. ASTRONOMY IN THE MOUNTAINS: LIGHT AND COLORS

Workshops

  1. DISCOVERING THE SPEED OF LIGHT
  2. EASY MODELS TO SHOW THE SKY ON DIFFERENT LATITUDES AND THE EFFECT OF OBSERVING FROM MOUNTAINS-TOPS
  3. ENERGY CRISIS IN LUNAR ORBIT
  4. HOW TO MEASURE THE DISTANCE EARTH-SUN BY STUDYING THE ARCTURUS SPECTRUM
  5. HOW TO MEASURE THE DISTANCE EARTH-SUN BY STUDYING THE TRANSIT OF VENUS
  6. MAKING HELIOSCOPES WITH FOUR STICKS
  7. MEASURING THE MOON'S MOUNTAINS
  8. MUONS IN THE MOUNTAINS
  9. OUR CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE
  10. PLANETS IN MOTION
  11. THE HORIZON AS AN OBSERVATORY
  12. THE PYRENEAN SHEPHERDS' DIALS
  13. VISIT TO PARTICLE ZOO

General Working Groups

EXCITING ASTRONOMY PROJECTS FOR STUDENTS. SOME EXAMPLES

Posters

  1. AN ESTIMATION OF THE SOLAR CONSTANT
  2. ASTRONOMY TEACHING ACTIVITIES IN LATVIA
  3. BEING DETECTIVES TO PROMOTE ASTRONOMY
  4. EUROASTRO: A SOCRATES EUROPEAN PROJECT
  5. FEEDBACK ON THE ASTRONOMY COURSE
  6. IN SEARCH OF THE SKY IN THE CITY
  7. IN-SERVICE TRAINING COURSE IN ASTRONOMY
  8. JUPITER SATELLITES AND THIRD KEPLER'S LOW
  9. LIGHT: THE MESSAGE FROM THE STARS
  10. MALTA ASTRONOMICAL HERITAGE
  11. MEASURING THE UNIVERSE FROM EUROPEAN DIMENSION
  12. MERCURY AND VENUS TRANSITS IN 2003 AND 2004
  13. ORGANIZING THE ASTRONOMY TEACHING IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL
  14. PUPIL-ORIENTED ASTRONOMY IN AUSTRIAN SCHOOL LESSONS
  15. THE HORIZON AND HORIZON CALENDARS
  16. USING PHOTOGRAPHY IN ASTRONOMY TEACHING

The organisers of this course always encourage active participation by all the teachers and professors through personal contributions to the poster session, in the common discussions or in the general working groups. As a result of this spirit of promoting the exchange of information, each participant received the Proceedings, which included all the activities. All of these papers appeared in English and one of the two other official languages of the Summer School. This year, as well as of English, the official languages were German as hosted country and Italian for reasons of proximity.

The General Lecture of the opening session was presented by Dr. Paul Scheier from the Innsbruck University and Dr. Michele Gerbaldi from the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris presented the General Lecture in the closing session. A group of instructor members of EAAE produced the prior list of activities during the meeting. The majority of them are members of EAAE WG of the Summer School: Arntraud Bacher, Frédéric Dahringer, Rainer Gaitzsch, Rupert Gesenberger, Leonarda Fucili, Rosa M. Ros, and Ilgonis Vilks as well as Alan Pickwick, non-members of this working group, who was invited to present a workshops.

We spent the morning and the first part of the afternoon in Workshops, the second part of each afternoon in General Working groups and Poster sessions . Two evenings were used for observation sessions with telescopes. The General lectures took place at the opening and the closing session. Thursday afternoon was spent in the Alps mountains, which offered us a wonderful sunny day for enjoying our excursion.


Participants at the 7th EAAE Summer School

 

 

Rosa M. Ros, Chairperson of the EAAE-WG3
Arntraud Bacher, Chairperson of Local Organising Committee

 

Last edited september 23, 2003 by Francis Berthomieu <berthomi@ac-nice.fr>