Pupils & Students
The International Polar Year offers unique opportunities to pupils and students to get involved into polar and climate research themselves.
Get all the information on how to get involved into the IPY from the German Youth Steering Committee (GYSC).
Under Click & Learn you'll find small games and animations.
Movies, sounds, photos and downloads you'll find under Movies, Pics & Sounds
Our forum where you can ask your questions about climate change, polar and marine research or anything else in what you take interest. To the Forum.
- National and international competitions for pupils about topics like polar research, climate and environment
- Information about teachers programs: e.g. the participation of teachers on expeditions in order to create new teaching material on the base of current scientific results
- Links to web sites with polar related teaching material
- Links to polar science related institutes and universities in Germany
- Announcement of summer schools for students
- Announcement of student jobs within the Polar Year


