With INGV's ScienzAperta, from 6 to 14 May, students will meet researchers and technicians from the Etna Observatory in Catania who, through the usual "didactic tour", will demonstrate the tools and techniques for surveillance and monitoring of active Sicilian volcanoes.
For the second consecutive year, thanks to the alternating school-work training project with the "Galileo Galilei" scientific high school, the pupils of class V will work alongside the INGV-OE staff, welcoming the public and school groups in the guise of "Young Divulgatori Scientifici”, a unique experience to encourage and promote the link between school, research and knowledge.
Guided by scientists, visitors will alternate between the present, with exhibits on Etna's recent eruptive activity and the dynamics of its eastern flank; the past, with the great Etna eruption of 1669; and the future, through the eye of the drone and the aid of immersive virtual reality to learn about the new territorial investigation tools.
Among the numerous appointments, the projection of the videos "Evolution of Etna", created in collaboration with the Etna Park, and "Sensations in one shot: Etna, the eruptions and the territory", created as part of the Project of the National Civil Service.
Finally, for the first time, ScienzAperta includes study days on the "Integral Natural Reserve of the Lachea Island and the Faraglioni of the Cyclops", organized in collaboration with the Cutgana Research Center of the University of Catania, with the patronage of the Italian Geological Society, of the Italian Association of Volcanology and Marine Protected Area - Cyclops Islands. A journey through culture, science and nature which, through seminars open to the public and excursions for students, will allow the Reserve to be discovered and known from its origins, and will allow respectful observation of its flora and fauna.