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Education and Outreach

Education, Outreach and Human Resource Development in Space Weather

Relevant recommendation of the COSPAR-ILWS Space Weather Roadmap

“Identify, develop, and provide access to quality education and information materials for all stakeholder groups: Collect and develop educational materials on space weather and its societal impacts, and create and support resource hubs for access to these materials, and similarly for space-weather related data and data products. Stimulate collaboration among universities in order to promote homogenized space-weather education as part of the curricula.”

Towards implementing the above mission, this team aims to perform the following tasks:

Coordinate with COSPAR, SCOSTEP, ISWI, ILWS, UN-COPUOS, CCMC, CESSI and other regional organizations for planning, organization and delivery of space weather education and workshops around the globe.
Build upon UN / ISWI educational activities and I-REDI (International Research, Education and Development Initiative) initiated by the CCMC to develop a standardized space weather school curriculum.
Engage students in activities that are pushing the frontiers of research, development, and experimental operations.
Create an environment for students from different countries and different career goals to work together for the benefit of society, and strengthen international collaborations.
Promote space environment awareness as an important component of the new millennium core education.
Address a growing need for the next generation professionals to understand the fundamentals of the Sun-Earth system, and the impacts of space weather on humans and technologies.
Encourage motivated graduate students to join ISWAT projects as active participants and possibly co-leads.
Initiate Space Weather World Relay that will engage students from multiple time zones around the globe in innovative and collaborative space weather monitoring, analysis, and forecasting.
Maintain a database of space weather experts from various domains who volunteer to deliver space weather education tutorials.