Lecturers Without Borders (LeWiBo)

🌐 The french speaking community of planetary science shows up for bringing space science and exploration to students during the EPSC Goes Live for schools - online. 🚀 #Burundi welcomes Sebastien Besse from the European Space Agency - ESA for the first online talk on Friday at 15:00 CET. #BepiColombo 🌟 Nicolas Lodieu, from IAC Tenerife follows on Friday with Exoplanets orbiting Brown dwarf stars at 16:00 CET. Registrations for both are open to all French speakers: https://lnkd.in/e-fYMPg6 https://lnkd.in/eWcw-Pg5 aux étoiles et Mercure avec Europlanet, EPEC, CoLD Burundi, Animath, Tumbleweed Mars, Netherlands Platform for Planetary Science

After a lively week of school outreach as a satellite program to the Europlanet Science Congress 2026 in The Hague, this week we extend space science to schools all around the world; Starting online today at 17:00-18:00 CET with providing Europlanet tools and resources to secondary education teachers on how they can bring Mars exploration to their classroom. Giovanni Poggiali from INAF Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica will be giving the scientific Introduction to Mars, bringing the latest of our knowledge about the red planet. Athanasia Nikolaou will be following-up with the resources. Register below: https://lnkd.in/egKdbfCV With great thanks to this year's partners: Europlanet, EPEC, Tumbleweed Mars, AMARE Den Haag, Netherlands Platform for Planetary Science, CosmoAmautas, RECA and CoLD Burundi.

"EPSC Goes live for schools" has landed in The Hague and brought Dr. Sabrina Schwinger from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in a classroom of the The British School in the Netherlands where they discussed water on the Moon! The curious minds of 9 year old students not only stood up to the challenge of new discoveries but received the most awesome material to work with after class. Next up: the Tumbleweed Mars hands-on rover workshop. We warmly thank the British school and teachers for hosting our conference researchers! Europlanet, Tumbleweed Mars, Netherlands Platform for Planetary Science

Are you a female #highschool student studying in or at a short distance from The Hague? Next week on Tuesday afternoon join a team of brilliant female scientists who gather for the #EPSC2026 conference in the AMARE venue and will share their time answering questions from you. - How is the life of a scientist? - What rewards and challenges are on their way? Apply https://lnkd.in/dzDmVreW and prepare your own questions to ask! Limited number of spots #STEM #womeninstem #TheHague Supported by Europlanet, Tumbleweed Mars, ESERO NL, EPEC,

EPSC Goes Live for Schools 2026 | The Hague+ edition During the Europlanet Science Congress #EPSC2026, The Hague will become a lively meeting point for scientists and schools. Travelling researchers will connect with classrooms at OpenAMARE in The Hague, the Netherlands, and beyond, bringing planetary science directly to students. A space-powered tart to the school year with the support of Europlanet, EPEC, ESERO NL, Tumbleweed Mars, OpenAMARE, CoLD Burundi For whom: Students 9+ years. When: 6–11 September 2026 Where: The Hague and online Register your interest below by the 30th of August: https://lnkd.in/d87UPyuh

Happy to support this initiative: Our co-founder Athanasia Nikolaou will participate in the Pint of Science Italia event in Frascati on the 18th of May, at Pointbreak pub. Get ready to learn all about Magma oceans in a simple fashion! #Scicomm #STEM https://lnkd.in/e5M9aXp7

"Coordinated chaos". Recently, we started a new partnership with the Montessori School in #Valencia. As part of this collaboration, our scientist and Lewibo coordinator Olha Sobetska visited the school to give a lecture on #Chaos Theory earlier this month. The school follows the #Montessori method, with learning environments adapted to each stage of a child’s development. Students explore science, geometry, geography, and social interaction through hands‑on activities before moving on to more abstract concepts. The teachers’ enthusiasm and the students’ curiosity were immediately visible. In the class of 14‑year‑olds, their engagement with this challenging topic, such as deterministic chaos, and their ability to connect it to other ideas were inspiring and a strong reminder of what science outreach can achieve.

"Coordinated chaos". Recently, we started a new partnership with the Montessori School in #Valencia. As part of this collaboration, our scientist and Lewibo coordinator Olha Sobetska visited the school to give a lecture on #Chaos Theory earlier this month. The school follows the #Montessori method, with learning environments adapted to each stage of a child’s development. Students explore science, geometry, geography, and social interaction through hands‑on activities before moving on to more abstract concepts. The teachers’ enthusiasm and the students’ curiosity were immediately visible. In the class of 14‑year‑olds, their engagement with this challenging topic, such as deterministic chaos, and their ability to connect it to other ideas were inspiring and a strong reminder of what science outreach can achieve.

The largest ever image of the Milky way from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory and the largest school audience at a LeWiBo lecture of the last 3 years in one - complementary - picture. Shortly after Easter we had a warm welcome from a high school in La Plata, #Argentina where one of our volunteer lecturers spent a full hour discussing with three (!) classes of students how the observatories in South America host astronomers and offer them unique observation conditions. Offering lecture opportunities globally to our base of traveling researchers is not always easy. One link at a time is the - slow and steady - way. Grateful to the hosts and volunteer Dr. Tatiana M. Rodriguez for her time. #STEM #scicomm

Memes. Exoplanets. Academic chaos. Geeks - ehm - Hobbyists and pros in #Astronomy, #Astrobiology, #Planetary Science submit your memes to the 6th EXOMEME online exhibition until 4th of February --> https://lnkd.in/drrw7cJ9 #scicomm #exoplanets #stem Thibaut Roger Helena Lecoq Molinos