Arbois Science Village

*Every year for the past 19 years, CEREGE (the European Centre for Research and Education in Environmental Geosciences) has opened its doors and its science to schoolchildren and the general public free of charge during the Fête de la Science, which will take place in France from 6 to 16 October 2023.
**Its Science Village on the Technopole de l'Arbois**.
**On Thursday 12 October 2023**, the **Village des Sciences de l'Arbois,** the largest grouping of laboratories working in the field of **environmental sciences,** will welcome more than 600 primary school children from the southern region with 40 workshops and 3 conferences, thanks to the involvement of around a hundred researchers, teacher-researchers, technicians, engineers, managers, staff from the Technopôle de l'Arbois and many players in regional scientific communication.
**2023: Science and sport as a national theme**.
What does it mean to be a researcher, what is his or her life and daily routine? What makes their research qualitative? What makes the difference?
Research is often portrayed in lab coats, with test tubes, analysis and studious reflection, far removed from the image of the trained explorer. Yet very often, the researcher has to reach the inaccessible and swaps his lab coat for the hyper-technical equipment of the explorer.
In environmental geosciences, we need to be prepared for the many challenges that lie ahead.
(https://www.cerege.fr/fr/accueil-cerege/focus-chercheurs-extreme/)
**Lots of support
The event is organised by CEREGE (Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement) in partnership with Les Petits Débrouillards, the Technopole Environnement Arbois-Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille University, the Observatoire de Sciences de l'Univers Institut Pythéas, the IMBE (Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Écologie marine et continentale), the Laboratoire Chimie Environnement, and the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM). There will also be scientists from the IRD, INRAé Recover (Aix-en-Provence), the Institut Méditerranéen pour la Transition Environnementale (ITEM), the Collège de France, the Sainte Victoire Nature Reserve and the Aix-en-Provence Natural History Museum.
The Village des Sciences de l'Arbois is also supported by the Aix-Marseille Provence metropolitan area, the FR ECCOREV and the Région Sud.
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**CONFERENCES**
. **10am *"The job of a palaeontologist "***, by Yves DUTOUR, Conservation Officer in charge of the Natural History Museum in Aix-en-Provence.
 
. **2pm *"I eat, you eat, he/she eats... what climate and what biodiversity in my plate? "*** by Alberte BONDEAU, CNRS Research Fellow, Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology
**PLATFORMS**          
                                                      
Meteorites: a journey through the solar system
How do we know what environment the first humans lived in?
Rock under the microscope
Rivers: from the mountains to the sea
Diatoms: curious microscopic algae
Microfossils: witnesses to past climates or the double life of plankton
The fossil sorting machine
Minerals that reveal the age of the Earth's surfaces
Dinosaurs of Provence
Dams - How do they resist the force of water?
What drives ocean circulation?
Drones for the geosciences
Soil: make your own!
Soil pollution
Fountain, will I drink your reused water?
Let the carrots do the talking!
Anthracology
What's in our air?
Augmented reality sandbox
Terrestrial magnetism
Extraction of banana DNA
The mysteries of the nanoworld: discovering the infinitely small
Nanoparticles: small but powerful
History of the tree, the example of the Provençal pine
Journey to the heart of a water table
Earthquakes and seismic risk
Draw me a Rhabdodon
Ostracods as bio-indicators of paleo-environments
CO2
Plate tectonics
Junior Climate Fresco
Women in Science
Photo Booth
Fossils in Provence
Journey to the heart of wood
In search of the blue fairy
The Red Cross
Discovering the birds of the Sud-PACA region
Space Guardians II