3 French researchers in Science Week 2015 [fr]

The Embassy of France in Ireland supported three members of the French Researchers and Scientists Networkhttp://www.ambafrance-ie.org/French... in their participation to Science Week 2015, which celebrated this year its 20th anniversary.

 Pierre Casaubieilh, French researcher in the MaREI centre in Cork and works on renewable energies, presented his workshop on renewable energies “EVERLASTING ENERGY!”, in front of 50 students. With models, they amused the audience’s curiosity by exploring wind, hydro and solar sustainable solutions. (More information here)

 Johann Issartel, French researcher working on the perception and action fields, investigating how controlled movements may be coupled with sensory information in Dublin City University, stayed one week with his teams in Newpark Comprehensive School. (More information here). He managed to make young students aware of the links between their weight and the accuracy of their movements while collecting data for his own research!

 Pierre Lovera, French researcher in Tyndall National Institute, along with some of his students (Roxane, Karen and Ludovic) introduced light and some of its fundamental concepts to students of primary schools in Cork. (More information here). «It is not the first outreach activity that I do but every time I find the experiment to be refreshing and enriching. It is a pleasure to share your knowledge with a young audience and to help them understand the world around them. It is also a challenge to explain with simple words some rather complicated notions – but it is a good communication exercise».– Pierre Lovera