Agenda Call for participation in The International Polar Year Youth Steering Committee 2007 - 2009 The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2009 will be a coordinated global effort involving more than fifty countries world-wide to focus research attention and public interest on the world’s Polar Regions and the issues facing these areas. The IPY Youth Steering Committee (YSC) was recently created as a project within the IPY to address the needs of involving the youth of the world in this endeavor. The International YSC will be made up of youth representatives from around the world, from science, social science, aboriginal and arts backgrounds and ranging in education from PhD to high school. These national representatives will be responsible for providing the link between the International YSC and their country’s national level YSC. National YSC’s will in turn be composed of regional representatives who will undertake IPY outreach within their region. National YSC’s will coordinate country-wide initiatives to try and involve youth in IPY, with special focus on involving youth in actual IPY research programs. The International YSC as a whole will tackle programs too large for any single national YSC. The full IPY proposal (proposal number ID#168) was submitted on September 30, 2005 and has now been officially endorsed. One of the programs will be the International Youth Conference on the Poles (IYCP). This conference, proposed to be held in late April 2008, will bring together youth from around the world to focus on polar issues. IYCP will feature special sessions highlighting youth polar research and roundtable discussions in which youth will assist in directing international policies on polar issues. An International YSC webpage is currently under construction. It will provide a forum where youth will be able to communicate with each other globally and get involved in IPY programs. A major feature of this site will be the education centre. Here youth will be able to learn more about a wide variety of polar topics and will be able to download materials that they can employ to teach their peers and communities about these issues. The ultimate legacy left by the YSC will be the continued interest and research focus on the Polar Regions beyond the conclusion of IPY. YSC will form a network of polar researchers, policy makers and leaders who will continue to work in and for the poles long past 2009. International contact details: co-chairs of the IPY YSC All PhD and MSc students, currently working in polar research or potentially interested to participate in the Belgian Youth Steering Committee can contact Dr Elie Verleyen (elie.verleyen@UGent.be) Links to complementary resources: http://www.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=168 |
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