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  • Monday, 2 November 2015
    • 10:00 - 18:15
      • 10:00 CONFERENCE OPENING 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
      • 10:45 Registration & Coffee (followed by formalities at Fermi Building) 1h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - (Lower Level 1) )
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:30 Disaster Risk Reduction Literacy and Reforming Science Education 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        IRDR is the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Programme co-sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Sciences Council (ISSC), and the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
        Speaker: Rudiger Klein (former Director of IRDR, Zurich, SWITZERLAND)
      • 14:15 Break 15'
      • 14:30 Peri-Peri-U: Disaster Risk Management Education 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Djillali Benouar (University of Science & Technology, Alger, ALGERIA)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:15 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:45 Educational Game to Raise Awareness about Disaster Risks 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Sophie Mossoux (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, BELGIUM)
      • 16:30 Break 15'
      • 16:45 Extreme Seismic Hazards and Disasters 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
      • 17:30 Discussion 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Moderator: Alik Ismail-Zadeh
  • Tuesday, 3 November 2015
    • 10:00 - 18:30
      • 10:00 World Climate Research Program and Education on Climate Change 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        WCRD is the World Climate Research Program co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), ICSU and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Organization (IOC) of UNESCO
        Speaker: David Carlson (WCRP Executive Director, Geneva, SWITZERLAND)
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:15 Climate Modeling and Future Climate Education in ICTP 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Filippo Giorgi (ICTP, Trieste, ITALY)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:00 LUNCH 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:30 Panta Rhei – Water and Society: Science and Education 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Thorsten Wagener (University of Bristol, UK)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:15 Break 15'
      • 14:30 Lessons Learned from Great Tsunamis: a Role of Education 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Harsh Gupta (National Geophysical Res. Institute, Hyderabad, INDIA)
      • 15:15 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:45 Atmospheric Ozone, Air Pollution and Climate Problems 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: John Burrow (Universität Bremen, GERMANY)
        Material: Slides
      • 16:30 Break 15'
      • 16:45 Discussion 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Moderator: Filippo Giorgi
      • 17:30 Poster Session 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - (Lower Level 1) )
  • Wednesday, 4 November 2015
    • 10:00 - 20:00
      • 10:00 Future of Geomagnetic Earth Observations 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Kathy Whaler (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:15 Petrophysics and Geodynamics: Future Science and Education 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Frank Schilling (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)
      • 12:00 LUNCH 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:30 Computational Geodynamics: Combined Mathematics – Geosciences – Computer Science Education 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
      • 14:15 Break 15'
      • 14:30 Science Education in Africa 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Edith Madela-Mntla (Director, ICSU ROA, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA)
      • 15:15 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:45 Geoscience Education and Technology Transfer 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Jesus Martinez-Frias (CSIC-Universidad Complutense, Madrid, SPAIN)
      • 16:30 Break 15'
      • 16:45 Discussion 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Moderator: Karim Aoudia (ICTP, Trieste, ITALY)
      • 17:30 Poster Session 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - (Lower Level 1) )
      • 19:00 Conference Reception 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
  • Thursday, 5 November 2015
    • 09:00 - 16:30
      • 09:00 Resourcing Future Generation 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Roland Oberhansli (University of Potsdam, GERMANY)
      • 09:45 Break 15'
      • 10:05 Cartography, Education and Training 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Menno-Jan Kraak (University of Twente, THE NETHERLANDS)
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:15 Education and Training in Remote Sensing & Related Aspects of Propagation 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Madhu Chandra (Chemnitz University of Technology, GERMANY)
      • 12:00 LUNCH 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:30 Towards a new Declaration on Geographical Education in Europe 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Joos Droogleever Fortuijn (University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANS)
      • 14:15 Break 15'
      • 14:30 Quaternary Science as a Window into the Future 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Allan Ashworth (North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA)
      • 15:15 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:45 Discussion 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Moderator Harsh Gupta
  • Friday, 6 November 2015
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Global Geodetic Observing System for Earth Sciences 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Michael Sideris (University of Calgary, CANADA)
      • 09:45 Monitoring of Disasters from Space 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Orhan Altan (Technical University of Istanbul, TURKEY)
      • 10:30 Astronomy: Future Science and Education 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Piero Benvenutti (University of Padova, ITALY)
      • 11:15 Coffee Break 15'
      • 11:30 General Discussion and Closure of the Conference 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Moderator Alik Ismail-Zadeh
      • 12:30 LUNCH 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 GeoUnions Meeting (by invitation) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 45'
      • 15:45 GeoUnions Meeting (by invitation) 1h45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
  • Saturday, 7 November 2015
    • 09:00 - 12:00
      • 09:00 GeoUnions Meeting (by invitation) 3h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Lundqvist Lecture Hall )