EGU Education Committee initiatives in support of Higher Education teaching

The EGU Education Committee (EC) provides an increasingly wide range of support for all those who teach geosciences at the university level, including PhD students, postgraduates, research fellows, and permanent academic or teaching support staff. New initiatives are being proposed in the hope of having a greater impact on the university community. Initiatives include:

The support of 1 Early Career Scientist (ECS) with experience in teaching Earth, planetary, and space sciences at the university level and in conducting research in the field of geoscience, by receiving a fellowship.

Geoscience Distinguished Lectures series at university: The EGU EC offers an annual series of Geosciences Distinguished Lectures, to be given by top scientists from Europe who have previously participated as speakers in GIFT workshops during the EGU General Assemblies. University teachers from the European region are welcome to request a lecture, for which the EGU Committee on Education will cover the travel and subsistence costs of the speaker. Lecturers and topics should be selected among the ones given in the last 5 years in any EGU General Assembly GIFT Workshop, whose programs can be viewed on the GIFT webpages. The distinguished lectures will be in hybrid mode to ensure a broader visibility of the initiative. More than one university could participate in the event.

Support for the creation of teaching material for higher education: EC awards each year 5-10 grants to fund the preparation of university level geoscience teaching materials. The teaching material can be on any geoscience topic, including laboratory or fieldwork.

The EC is also planning the creation of a professional network in LinkedIn for the promotion of Tertiary Education in Geoscience among university students and university educators.

EC webpages themselves (https://www.egu.eu/education/ ) are a valuable collection of slides, videos and teaching materials.