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ESERA 2011
It is with immense pleasure that I welcome you to the website of the forthcoming ESERA conference to be held in Lyon from 5 to 9 September 2011.
The overall theme of this 9th Conference is ‘Science learning and citizenship’.
This is the first time that ESERA has held its biannual conference in France, and I am sure you will not be disappointed by Lyon, a city internationally known for its historic sights and its award-winning gastronomy. |
As was the case with the previous ESERA conferences, the scientific committee aims to keep the level of the presentations as high as possible so that it is a positive intellectual experience for all the participants. We want you to remember ESERA 2011 as a place where you discussed the issues and questions that count for your research, renewed relations with your colleagues and made contacts that helped you to develop new directions in your work.
I would like to take this occasion to thank the scientific committee of the conference as well as the board of ESERA for their invaluable support during the run-up to this conference.
This conference would not have been possible without the institutional support of LIP Lyon Ingénierie Projets – a private company, subsidiary of the University Lyon 1, specialised in engineering and dedicated to setting up, supporting and managing projects and events in research and innovative technologies, the INRP - National Institute for Pedagogical Research – a centre for the study and dissemination of research into pedagogy, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Lyon’s science university, and the IUFM -Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres- the university’s teacher-training college. |
We will be meeting in Lyon’s Centre de Congrès, part of a spectacular modern complex 'la Cité Internationale' bordering the Rhône, designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano.
This centre borders the ‘Parc de la Tête d’Or’, the largest urban park in France featuring a zoological and a botanical gardens.
The centre is also near the Campus of the Science University, and you will have the opportunity to visit this example of 1970s French university architecture that is home to a number of interesting scientific collections (e.g. the herbarium and the palaeontology collection). |
“While returning to Istanbul - the city of cities - is like returning to an old friend, discovering Lyon – the city of lights – is like discovering a new friend”, to quote Marc Riboud, Photographer from Lyon
ESERA 2011 will be the occasion for you to make a new friend – the city of Lyon!
I look forward to meeting you in the City of Lights in September 2011.
Catherine Bruguière.
Chair of ESERA 2011
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