This week, the Swiss Polar Institute’s educational programme Swiss Polar Class launched the CLASSCADES programme for primary schools in French and German. Over 4700 students from Switzerland, France and Germany joined the two streaming events and met with the programme coordinator, Bastien Ruols and scientist Chloé Höllerer who will be the reporting live from the icebreaker in November, during the second leg of the CASCADES Expedition.
In total, over 10,000 schoolchildren virtually boarded the CASCADES Expedition and registered to the online programme to learn more about why the Arctic region is important, how an expedition is organised and what the scientists onboard will be studying to better understand how the changes in the Arctic affect the global climate.
The videos of both streaming events can be replayed on Swiss Polar Class’ YouTube channel:
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