From CAWSES

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.

2.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 undeveloped countries by giving funding directly to the organizers or help young students of undeveloped 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 taken.