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It was suggested that the effort on Capacity Building should go beyond sponsoring summer schools and supporting for young students. | It was suggested that the effort on Capacity Building should go beyond sponsoring summer schools and supporting for young students. | ||
| - | Reply: Capacity building of SCOSTEP sponsors only summer schools of | + | Reply: Capacity building of SCOSTEP sponsors only summer schools of developing countries by giving funding directly to the organizers or help young students of developing countries to attend these schools. Young students willing to attend worshops or colloquia should ask grants directly to the different CAWSES task groups chairmans. |
3. About Instrumentation | 3. About Instrumentation | ||
Vincent responded by pointing out that SCOSTEP has a relative small budget such that it is not fully able to support instrumentation but may leverage it. Gopalswamy suggested that SCOSTEP/CAWSES might consider partly sponsoring some instruments in the range from $5,000 to $20,000. No decisions have been taken. | Vincent responded by pointing out that SCOSTEP has a relative small budget such that it is not fully able to support instrumentation but may leverage it. Gopalswamy suggested that SCOSTEP/CAWSES might consider partly sponsoring some instruments in the range from $5,000 to $20,000. No decisions have been taken. | ||
Revision as of 11:05, 4 September 2010
Outreach
From the Minutes of the SCOSTEP bureau in Berlin July 17, 2010, answers to some questions:
1. About Comics books:
As part of the Capacity Building effort, the SCOSTEP educational comic books have reached young people in many countries. B.Schmieder suggested that SCOSTEP should continue to encourage more countries to translate the comics to their native languages. Schmieder mentioned that the Comics books (10 different books in 2010) are in the SCOSTEP webpage. Five books are already translated in French.
Japanese SCOSTEP/CAWSES activities
Kazuo Shiokawa informed the Bureau that a new comic book on “Space Weather” is currently under development at Nagoya University in Japan, which will become the 10th book of a series of educational comics sponsored by SCOSTEP/CAWSES. Japan also formed a new SCOSTEP subcommittee chaired by Prof. T. Ogino. In addition, Japan has established its own Task Groups corresponding to each of the CAWSES-II themes, including Capacity Building and eSciences.
2. Role of Capacity building of SCOSTEP for students
Question:
It was suggested that the effort on Capacity Building should go beyond sponsoring summer schools and supporting for young students.
Reply: Capacity building of SCOSTEP sponsors only summer schools of developing countries by giving funding directly to the organizers or help young students of developing countries to attend these schools. Young students willing to attend worshops or colloquia should ask grants directly to the different CAWSES task groups chairmans.
3. About Instrumentation
Vincent responded by pointing out that SCOSTEP has a relative small budget such that it is not fully able to support instrumentation but may leverage it. Gopalswamy suggested that SCOSTEP/CAWSES might consider partly sponsoring some instruments in the range from $5,000 to $20,000. No decisions have been taken.
