Canary Islands a volcanic window in the Atlantic Ocean

Description

An educational program about the volcanic phenomenon

Financed by

Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT)

Coordinated by

Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables

Participants

• Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME)
• Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO)
• Gobierno de Canarias a través de la Academia Canaria de Seguridad
• Federación Canaria de Municipios (FECAM)
• Fundación Telesforo Bravo-Juan Coello.

Abstract

ITER has prompted the launch of "Canary: A volcanic Window in the Atlantic Ocean," an educational program on the volcanic phenomenon for citizenship resident in the Canary Islands.

The educational program "Canary Islands: A volcanic Window in the Atlantic Ocean" is taught in all municipalities of the Canary Islands, including the core population of the small island of La Graciosa throughout the year 2008 and 2009, declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Planet Earth.

This statement aims primarily to increase the knowledge and social awareness on issues related with Earth Sciences in order to deal with security challenges that our planet faces in this new century and that, consequently, affects the societies that inhabit it. To contribute to the reduction of natural hazards, including those related to the volcanic phenomenon, through the implementation of programmes aimed at informing and educating the public about natural hazards to which it exposes its territory is one of the specific objectives of the International Year of Planet Earth.

Following these guidelines, "Canary Islands: A volcanic Window in the Atlantic Ocean" aims to contribute in the reduction of the most common risk in this Community, the volcanic risk, now that the Canary Islands is the only active volcanic region of the country. This educational program aims to inform and educate the citizenry that resides in the Canaries on the different volcanic hazards resulting from its own volcanic activity, and the various actions that the society must materialize for reducing volcanic risk.

The educational program "Canary Islands: A volcanic Window in the Atlantic Ocean" is held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays starting at 19:00 pm in all municipalities in the Canary Islands. As part of this program, audio-visual projections developed by the international association of Volcanology (IAVCEI) and the United Nations for the development of education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) as well as by various experts on the Spaniards volcanic phenomenon are presented.

You can find more information about this project in www.planetavivoradio.es