P. Correia, GinaBerenguer, J.L.Pereira, Hélder2025-07-072025-07-072025-04Correia, G.P., Berenguer, J.L., Pereira, H. (2025). EGU Geosciences Education Field Officers: um programa internacional para a promoção do ensino das geociências. In: Comunicações Geológicas, 2025, vol. 112, Fascículo Especial I, pp. 471-474. https://doi.org/10.34637/ynrt-22840873-948Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/5954RESUMO: O programa Geosciences Education Field Officers (GEFO), criado e apoiado pelo Comité de Educação da European Geosciences Union, teve início em 2019 em seis países (Espanha, França, Índia, Itália, Marrocos e Portugal) e foi expandido em 2022 estando, atualmente, em desenvolvimento em 19 países europeus e não europeus. Está a ser preparada uma nova expansão do programa, prevista para 2025. O principal objetivo desta iniciativa é promover o desenvolvimento do ensino das geociências, através da organização e realização de oficinas interativas para professores, no ativo e em formação, dos ensinos básico e secundário. Esta iniciativa pretende fomentar o ensino das geociências, particularmente a componente prática, e contribuir para a concretização Pacto Ecológico Europeu e dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável das Nações Unidas.ABSTRACT: The Geosciences Education Field Officers (GEFO) programme, launched and supported by the Education Committee (EC) of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), began in 2019 in six countries (France, India, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, and Spain), was expanded in 2022, and now is under developing in 19 European and non-European countries. The latter was supported by the Commission on Geoscience Education of the International Union of Geological Sciences. For 2025 is being prepared a new expansion of the programme. The main goal of this initiative is to promote the development of geoscience teaching, by organizing and running interactive workshops to primary and secondary school teachers. The GEFO are geoscience teachers, in service or retired, and/or researchers, and besides performing workshops for teachers in their countries, they attend teacher´s conferences/webinars promoting EGU GEFO programme and produce publications regarding their activity. Between April 2019 and December 2023, more than 160 workshops were held, in which participated approximately 3000 teachers, eight articles, 18 abstracts and a chapter of a book were published; twelve talks and 11 webinars were presented at scientific meetings. Furthermore, EGU GEFO are working with national and international educational institutions as teacher’s associations and geosciences scientific structures. An important partnership that allowed writing the Barcelona Manifest (Manifesto for the teaching of Geoscience), a collaboration between EC and institutions from 10 different countries and, so far more than 30 associations and institutions already signed and are promoting the document. GEFO programme is an initiative that aims to encourage the teaching of geosciences, particularly its practical component, and intend to contribute to the achievement of the European Green Deal and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.porEnsino básico e secundárioEnsino das geociênciasEuropean Geosciences UnionTrabalho colaborativoMiddle and secondary educationTeaching geosciencesNetworkingjournal article10.34637/ynrt-22841647-581X