Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Semaine polaire française & International Polar Week - September 2013 - Volunteer opportunities

Voici un message d'Erli Costa, présidente d'APECS-Brésil et membre du comité exécutif d'APECS, à la recherche de volontaires pour aider à l'organisation de la prochaine semaine polaire internationale.
Nous vous rappelons qu'APECS-France organise la version française de la semaine polaire internationale du 30 septembre au 4 octobre prochain. Si ce n'est pas déjà fait, n'hésitez pas à nous dire si vous souhaitez y participer.

Anne-Mathilde



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From: Erli Schneider Costa <erli_costa@hotmail.com>
Date: 7 July 2013 16:41

Dear friends

We are organizing the International Polar Week that will take place in September (15-22)  and we would like to know your opinions on the proposed activities presented bellow. We will love know who can be more involved with the activities, help us in one or in some of them! Suggestions are always welcome! Remember that it is an excellent time to stay in touch with our colleagues and with the community in general, especially teachers and students, which makes us learn a lot, particularly in matters of communication of science we do!!!!

Please feel free to disclose this email to people who you think can help! We will wait for answers until July 12 by email: erli_costa@hotmail.com!

1) Invite ECRs to produce "Frost bytes" as during the IPY. These short videos has about 1 minute and help to spread the science among the general public and  of course to our colleagues and partners! To see some examples go to http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL39F0F0FBACD0C7FE
We will need a volunteer coordinator and some other volunteers  to help us to edit the videos or to help us to prepare a step-by-step to edit these videos, in order to encourage the participation of more ECRs. 

2) Drawing contest for students - The mainly idea is that each school participating in the IPW send us the best drawings (3 per school). A good way to choose between the designs would make them available on a facebook page. The more "liked" will be the winner and could be the logo for the IPW for March 2014. We also can think in a way to use the best 10 drawings to provide materials available on-line, as postal cards. 
We will need one-two volunteers to take care of the Facebook page to the contest who will be responsible to add the drawings send by the schools. We will create a special email to it!

3) Create a simple online form for schools and teachres, they can register from all over the world and we could keep in touch with them encouraging the participation in the proposed activities. 
We will need one person to manage it. 

4) Integrate National Committees in the organization of activities and update the IPW webpage in the APECS web-site, put the informations of the NCs activities during the IPW. 
Each NC representative could send us the information about what is being done/planned in each country and how we can integrate other countries in these activities. We need one-two volunteers to help with the website. 

5) Spread the information on IPW and send emails to all contacts that could participate in the activities. 
We will  prepare an invitation letter and it will be important translate in some languages. Then all of us could send it to our contacts. 

These proposals aims to integrate the national committees, schools, teachers and students and ensure the continuity of our International Polar Weeks. Please let us know your opinions!!!