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Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) Application form

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EGU General Assembly 2025 GIFT Workshop

Vienna, Austria, 27–30 April 2025

Topic: Exploring the Sea Floor

The EGU General Assembly GIFT workshop usually takes place over two and a half days during the EGU General Assembly. The workshop explores a theme in the Earth, planetary and space sciences, through topical presentations from scientists at the cutting-edge of research, together with hands-on teaching activities.

GIFT workshop will run from 27 April 2025 to 30 April 2025. The general theme of this year’s GIFT workshop is “Exploring the Sea Floor”.

Teachers and educators from Europe and around the world can apply to participate in GIFT from 21 October 2024 until 25 November 2024 by filling in an online application form. Successful teachers receive a partial travel and accommodation stipend to attend the workshop, and will be notified of the results of their application in mid-December.

Please see the programme overview (PDF document, 164.0 KB) for more details.

To apply, please fill in the form below and press "Submit application". Fields marked with * are required.

Application details

Application details
Please provide your first name and family name.
This email is used for validation of this application, as well as for all future communication with you. Please provide either your school/professional email address (preferred) or a private email address, if your school does not offer such a service.

School information

School information

Letter of recommendation

A letter of recommendation by your school principal or appropriate supervisor is required for each application and must include the following wording. Even if you were accepted for last year's GIFT, a new letter of your school principal or appropriate supervisor is required for next year's workshop as the timings for GIFT change every year.

“I recommend the above applicant as a GIFT Workshop participant and agree to support the teacher if he/she is required to take time away from school to participate in this workshop and to facilitate the teacher’s role in providing feedback to their colleagues and as a resource provider on the use of geoscience research across the curriculum following this experience.”

The letter needs to include the date, signature of your school principal or appropriate supervisor, and her or his job title.

Letter of recommendation

Data privacy

Your name and a valid email address are required to add your submission to our database. Please make sure to validate your entry (a link will be sent to the given email address) within 10 days, or your submission will be automatically deleted from our database.

All application data provided will be used during the review process and will be shared with the EGU Committee on Education and EGU staff. We respect your privacy and will not share your application details with any other third party. However, successful participants agree to have their name, school information and email addresses published in the GIFT brochure, which is published online.

To improve the review process, we may store your submission data up to two years. After this date, your information will be automatically removed from our database.

Data privacy
The EGU needs your contact information to validate this database entry. In addition we may need to contact you about your submission. You can withdraw your consent and have your data deleted at any time, in accordance with our privacy policy.
You need to agree with the EGU code of conduct in order to participate.