PROTECTING OUR PLANET DAY 2024

Join us for a world full of experts and leading researchers - passionate people working to protect our planet from here on Earth and from space - beaming live into your classroom.

An audience of over 180,000 joined POP23 last November for a programme of live link-ups with inspirational experts working to tackle climate change, interactive primary school sessions, and career journeys from studying STEM to protecting our planet.

This year we are adding even more enlightening sessions - discover how space agencies, satellites, scientists and solutions help mitigate climate change and meet some of the UK's pioneering conservation programmes protecting biodiversity for all of us.

Full details of the whole day’s programme can be viewed on the POP24 website.

Once registered you will be sent a confirmation email. Then closer to the day you will be sent joining instructions and the link to pop in across the day!

Discover how going into space is protecting our planet with Mission Control experts from the European Space Agency.

Live link up with leading researchers onboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough, one of the most advanced polar research vessels in the world.

See the success of leading conservation projects around the UK - from red squirrels to white storks, from Scottish wildcats to Caledonian pinewoods.

Dive into the incredible science behind protecting the ocean - from satellites to seagrass, from researchers to restoration - and discover why Ocean Colour really matters!

Pop over to the Antarctica Peninsula for an incredible link-up with British Antarctic Survey research pioneers at Rothera Research Station.

Beam in live to the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project in Cornwall for an interactive, live streamed primary school session.

Interview with Boaty McBoatface on the epic scientific odyssey to the ocean’s 'twilight zone', perhaps changing what we know about the pace of climate change.

Meet hidden heroes already working on innovations and research in the UK. Learn about their journeys from studying STEM subjects to protecting our planet.

Primary students can earn their first live badge in the European Space Agency’s challenge, Climate Detectives Kids.

POP24 presenters live at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, exploring incredible ecosystems through their interactive spaces and places.

Hear about challenges and successes, be hopeful of what can be achieved for the future, join in live Q&A with session guests.

Click on each title for full details of the session:

09.10 - 09.50 GMT

Discover the European Space Agency satellites watching over our planet, helping to monitor, understand, model, predict and act on climate change and its related challenges.

09.55 - 10.35

From vital space missions and data to leading UK ecosystem experts, from the RRS Sir David Attenborough to incredible link-ups from research pioneers in Antarctica.

10.40 - 11.20

Dive into the incredible science behind protecting the ocean - this most precious ecosystem - with Ocean Colour experts, Boaty McBoatface and Project Seagrass.

11.25 - 12.10

How some of the UK's pioneering conservation programmes are protecting biodiversity for all - Knepp Wildland Foundation, Saving Wildcats, Trees for Life and National Wildflower Centre.

09.10 - 09.50 GMT

Join the team at Dynamic Earth and explore the incredible ocean in this live streamed activity session for primary schools.

Register for this primary session on its own .

10.00 - 10.40

Beam in live to the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project, Cornwall for this unique educational session.

Register for this primary session on its own .

13.45 - 14.20

How to take part in the European Space Agency Climate Detectives challenge and run an experiment in your classroom along with us in the studio.

Register for this primary session on its own .

They demonstrate how students can follow a career path where they can contribute to protecting our planet - from here on Earth and in space!

Students will be inspired by panellists from academia and industry with backstories in studying STEM subjects leading to their inspiring careers aiming to protect our planet.

With a Patron and three panellists in each session, students can meet hidden heroes and pioneers in environmental programmes, cutting-edge scientific research, and ground-breaking innovations in the UK.

15.30 - 16.30

Join in with schools nationwide for the student finale of POP24 and run climate change activities after school. from ESERO-UK, STEM Learning, Dynamic Earth, POP24 contributors and supporters - choose your own activities, pick the students’ favourites.

You’ll also have the opportunity to take part in a live streamed fun-filled activity session with the Dynamic Earth team at POP24 Mission Control in Edinburgh.

16.30 - 17.00

For teachers and educators at the end of the POP24 day, join professional development leaders from the European Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) and STEM Learning to learn about the wealth of resources and CPD available to support teaching of sustainability and climate change.

Follow ESERO-UK on X (@ESERO_UK) and Facebook (@ESEROUK); STEM Learning on X and Facebook @STEMLearning; check out #POP24 for the latest; follow us on Eventbrite and keep for updates.

Image use

Various images for POP24 courtesy of British Antarctic Survey; Dynamic Earth; ESA (including image containing modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2021, processed by ESA and ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative Data, processed by Plymouth Marine Laboratory); Eden Project; Dr Sammie Buzzard, ; Luke Helmer, Solent Seascape Project.

Information for teachers

You can access further resources and professional development through the STEM Learning website:

https://www.stem.org.uk

Information for STEM Ambassadors

If you are a STEM Ambassador and you would like to get involved with the Climate Ambassador initiative, you can find out more on the STEM Learning website:

https://www.stem.org.uk/climate-ambassadors

Privacy notice

This privacy notice explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when you complete this expression of interest survey.

What information we need:

In order to process your data to enable us to plan the regional launch we need:

• your name
• your email address
• your school/community group/home address
• number of young people and adults joining you for POP24

Why we need it:

We need to know this data in order to:

• contact you with updates about POP24
• share details of how to join the event
• contact you via an email with information about POP24 when it is planned

We will only collect personal data required to provide and oversee this service to you. You will not automatically receive marketing emails about other STEM Learning educational products and services, if you would like to receive these please sign up on our website.

What we do with it:

Your personal data will be shared with those involved in running POP Day at ESERO-UK/STEM Learning.

We have systems in place to ensure secure processing of your personal data by ourselves and anyone whom it is shared with. All the personal data we process is done so by our staff in the UK however information may be hosted in the US.

How long we keep it:

The information collected from this survey will be destroyed after 2 years.

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https://www.stem.org.uk/privacy-policy

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