If you wish, you may participate in the various internal meetings that the association holds.

Educators’ training (St1)

Une formation à la Pédagogie des Sciences où même les Participants peuvent décider de venir pour préparer leur propre séjour

The participation of the same educators over time characterizes Objectif Sciences International.

To date, this state of affairs remains the privilege of very few organizations, as the renewal rate of teachers regarding the holiday getaways (turn over) remains important. Sometimes, the turnover is only a year.

Within the OSI, we have succeeded in infusing seriousness, serenity, transparency, quality, well-being, rigour, and pedagogy, to establish a superior turn-over of 3 years for seasonal educators (science Science La science est désormais l’affaire de tous. Découvrez la science d’une manière ludique et active. Nous vous proposons d’en découvrir plus sur nos expéditions à la voile, découverte du plancton. students). This is more than a third of the professional science Science La science est désormais l’affaire de tous. Découvrez la science d’une manière ludique et active. Nous vous proposons d’en découvrir plus sur nos expéditions à la voile, découverte du plancton. educators of OSI who have sustained more than 10 years and have supervised the same holidays every year, which demonstrates that the highest quality is provided.

This result of loyalty demonstrates the amount of time and the means dedicated to the selection of educators, as well as through the effective format of the Level 1 Training in Science given by the OSI to its new educators.

Every year, the following individuals participate in this training :

• The OSI educators,
• The newly recruited educators,
• Former educators who have come to meet the new recruits,
• Teachers,
• Observing Partners,
• The parents of minor participants,
• Future participants (teenagers, adults, and sometimes children) who have already taken part in a stay with OSI and who wish to take part in an Educational Project of the new holiday sessions to which they will live in the next season.

• For all forms of participation, please contact us (see contact details on this page)

Pre-Camps

The required time for educational and technical preparation is plenty before the start of the season. The total of accumulated days of preparation prior to the start of the season is of more than 9 days per person. We also know that in other organizations of holiday getaways, the animators get acquainted for the first time an hour prior to the arrival of participants (this is not a myth) thus, the advantages to which we benefit is truly a dream.
Thankfully, we are not the only organization to have instituted such a great quality of preparation; however, these types of organizations are rare, and within the domain of Scientific getaways, the educators that have seen the inside of what is done in other organizations and have experience in their field, know the quality to which they benefit within the NGO Objectif Sciences International.

Among these 9 days of preparation, the Technical Pre-Camp is 2 days long and takes place 1 month prior to the first holiday at the same location of the holiday.

The Educational Pre-Camp is 4 days long and takes place 2 months prior to the first holiday at the shared Centre of the OSI’s local group (France, Switzerland Vacation Camp
Valais
Switzerland Every year the NGO Objectif Sciences International offers several science camps in Valais, Switzerland, on different themes (fauna & flora, architecture, palaeontology, geology, drones...) You will find, at the following link, more information about our nature camps. , Japan, Quebec…). This long work meeting, which is also considered the continuation of field training, is the subject of daily publications in a log book to which all participants, if they wish, can consult on the Internet when they arrive home.

At the Pre-Camps, those who participate every year are:

• The OSI Educators,
• OSI Executives (Those who are responsible for the Program),
• All the Educators who will supervise this particular season, whether they are new or old to the team,
• Former Educators who have come to meet their colleagues to lend them a hand or even ideas,
• Teachers,
• Observing partners,
• Parents of minor participants,
• Future participants (teenagers, adults, and sometimes children) who have already taken part in a holiday and who wish to take part in an Educational Project of the new holidays to which they will take part in the next season.

• For all forms of participation, please contact us (see contact details on this page)

Holidays

During the holidays, the famous Retransmissions (exhibitions and conferences) organized on the day before the last on the premises of the holiday, will permit the participants and supervisors to take into account the progress of their projects.

The parents of the kids and teenagers, the families, and the funding partners for adult participants will be able to benefit from a direct observation of what was realized at the Solitary Science Stay of the OSI, no matter the age, place or theme.

• For all forms of participation, please contact us (see contact details on this page)

Post Camps

GA of the Participants

See - Listen - Contribute

When participating to the 2 day General Assembly for Participants :

• You will meet the educators and those responsible for OSI.
• You will witness the work done internally for the preparation and the OSI reviews.
• You will extend your testimony on the satisfaction form.
• You will provide advice on the workshops and debates.
• You will leave with the ability to represent the NGO around you.
• You will benefit (for the adults) from the methodological contributions that were observed and lived during this reunion, which exploits the tools and techniques that further the advancements of the projects of OSI.
• You will benefit (for your children) from an experience of public speaking, of preparing a report and the clarification of your ideas.
• You will benefit from the preparation and training that will allow you to then participate to the UN GENEVA FORUM (see below).

On the other hand, if, one day, a younger person wishes to become a Science Educator of OSI, they will have had to attend one of the holidays for adults as a participant, and they must also have had to participate completely to the GA for Participants as a participant.

Some participants never come to the meeting even though they tend to register every year, this can be because they do not wish to participate or are unable to participate to the GA for Participants. (availability, distance…)

Some participants come to the GA for Participants once and do not return, which can be due to logistical reasons (time, distance…) only being available once, or because this participation has allowed them to know the OSI from the inside, which has then permitted them to invest in the network without having to return to this meeting.

Some participants return several times, or even every year, to this meeting, either for the simple pleasure of rejoicing with the other participants and educators at the end of the season or to be able to continue to see, listen and contribute every year.

Program

Rarely do organizations who offer holiday getaways to kids and adults, invite the participants in a transparent manner to their internal meetings. This was introduced by the logic of quality from the OSI, as well as other quality criteria from our actions (management, objectives, implementation…).
The program of the GA for Participants has been developed to allow transparency and easy involvement by the participants who wish to come see, listen, and contribute.

Saturday :

• 10:00 - 10:30: Welcome. All participants, adults, children and their parents, are welcomed on site between 10:00 and 10:30 (There is possibility of arriving the same morning or the day before)
• 10:30 - 11:00: Presentation of the 2 day schedule
• 11:00 - 12:00: Opening session of the General Assembly for Participants.

• • Adult participants and parents of the children: Presentation of the Reviews for the past year (activities, materials, public, teams, finances..) + Question and Answers
  • Child Participants: At the start of the workshop for the Children’s sub-group (your child will receive content on the Encounters of Excellence that will be given throughout the 2 days in order to work on public speaking and the presentation that they will give to their parents and educators during this General Assembly for Participants that they have come to participate in - from the ages of 7)

• 12:15 - 1:30: Meal / Coffee, Break, Nap…
• 1:30 - 4:00: Parallel Workshops A+B in sub-groups (subjects are defined annually with consultation between the Science Educators and fixed the day before the GA by those responsible of the Program. - The adult participants, as well as the parents, must choose the theme to which they wish to get involved / the children and teenagers will form sub-groups and are supervised
• 4:00 - 5:00: Break
• 5:00 - 6:00: Retransmission of Reviews of the Year for the OSI programs.
• 6:00 - 7:00: Debate presentation (subject is defined annually by the consultations done by the Science Educators and fixed the day before of the GA by those responsible for the Program).
• 7:00 - 7:30: Festive appetizer
• 7:30 - 8:00: Preparation of specialized meals (everyone will get settled to present what they brought and share with everyone)
• 8:00 - 11:30: Specialized meal buffet and festive evening

Sunday :

• 8:00 - 9:00: Retransmission of the A+B workshops by the sub-groups (including the group of children) + Round Tables
• 9:00 - 9:30: 30 minutes break
• 9:30 - 11:00: Parallel Workshops C+D in sub-groups (subjects are defined annually) - The adult participants as well as the parents must choose the theme to which they wish to get involved / the children and teenagers will form sub-groups and are supervised
• 11:00 - 12:00: Retransmission of workshops C+D by the sub-groups (including the group of children) + Round tables
• 12:15 - 1:30: Meal / Coffee, Break, Nap…
• 1:30-3:00: Complete closing session of Post-Camp: Round table regarding individual reviews of the season / Projects / Remaining questions / Key dates of the upcoming year, the NGO in movement / Programs of the upcoming year: tour of the programmed actions
• 3:00 - 4:00: Going around for everyone to speak
• 4:00: Departure (the is the possibility of leaving at 4 p.m., to stay the afternoon or even to leave the next day in order to enjoy the grounds)

• For all forms of participation, please contact us (see contact details on this page).

Special conditions for participation

The general conditions for participation applies to the participation to the GA for Participants.

In addition, please take note of the special conditions for participation below as well as the general conditions for participation

• Introduction: The GA for participants is not the General Assembly of the Statutory General Assembly of the OSI NGO. The active members that form the Objectif Sciences International association are organizations or individuals who are invested at the NGO OSI level (International headquarters in Geneva). However, the GA for Participants was created to:
  • Allow to go further than transparency, by getting implicated in the choices and issues, for those who are interested
  • Allow for the participants to be represented in terms of the reflexions and the decisions for the educators
  • Allow for closer relationships to develop without having to travel to Geneva [1]*
  • Allow for those who are interested in getting involved in the annual convention in Geneva (FORUM DE GENEVE) to prepare themselves and get organized in advance of their contributions

• Participation:
  • The GA for participants is an educational activity in relation to science and also a training to the methodology of projects, among all the actions proposed by the OSI, which is also entitled the “GA for Participants”. The GA for Participants takes place in the Post-Camps of the OSI’s Scientific Educators.
  • The GA for Participants addresses all the participants: adults, kids, teenagers, and parents, who have already participated in a holiday with the OSI.
  • The participation to the GA for participants is done by choice and not mandatory.
  • All registered participants to the GA for Participants are responsible (or the parents, if the participants are minors) to participate or not in the programs’ meetings and workshops.
  • All non-registered participants who have accompanied participants (see below - “Fees”) are not to participate in the meetings and the workshops of the GA for Participants. They must entertain themselves individually. They will join the group during meal times and communal times (breaks, free time..) A non-registered participant who, once there, decides to participate in meetings and workshops of the GA of the Participants, will be able to pay the difference between the amount of the accompanying fees and the participation fees (see following paragraph)

• Fees
  • The participants (adults, teenagers or children) who wish to assist and to get involved in the GA for Participants will pay the participation fee of a “Participant”. This participation will be executed as of their arrival to the meeting. This will include:
    • The accommodation and the food, including all costs incurred and included (sheets, laundry…),
    • The expenses generated by the welcome and the supervision of the participants; and,
    • a portion of the fees are required for the animation and training, OSI will take care of the rest of the fees, in order to reduce the participation fee that is requested of the participants to its maximum because the GA for participants is a training on Excellence and is managed by the Educational Project, it guarantees the quality of the holiday on the spot and the quality of the achievements at the end of the meeting.


  • The parents who wish to get involved in the meetings of the GA for Participants will pay the participation fee of a “Parent Participant”. This participation will be executed as of their arrival to the meeting. This will include:
    • The accommodation and the food, including all costs incurred and included (sheets, laundry…),
    • The expenses generated by the welcome and the supervision of the participants and,
    • A portion of the fees are required for the animation and training, OSI will take care of the rest of the fees, in order to reduce the participation fee that is requested of the participants to its maximum
  • The Parents who accompany a participant but do not wish to take part in the meetings of the GA for Participants will pay the participation fee of a “Accompanying Parent”. This participation will be executed as of their arrival to the meeting. This will include:
    • The accommodation and the food, including all costs incurred and included (sheets, laundry…),
    • the expenses generated by the welcome and the supervision of the visitors
  • The Parents who accompany a participant but do not wish to take part in the meetings of the GA for Participants will pay the participation fee of a “Accompanying Parent”. This participation will be executed as of their arrival to the meeting. This will include:
    • The accommodation and the food, including all costs incurred and included (sheets, laundry…),
    • the expenses generated by the welcome and the supervision of the visitors
  • The children and teenagers that are accompanying a participant (same family, cousins, friends…) and who do not wish to get involved in the GA for Participants must pay the fee of an “Accompanying Child”. This participation will be executed as of their arrival to the meeting. This will include:
    • The accommodation and the food, including all costs incurred and included (sheets, laundry…),
    • the expenses generated by the welcome and the supervision of the visitors
  • The parents who wish to have the accompanying child be taken care of must pay the “entertainment” fee. This participation fee allows the execution of their supervision and animation on the spot. This includes:
    • a part of the expenses is necessary of their entertainment. OSI will take care of the rest of the fees, in order to reduce the participation fee that is requested of the participants, to its maximum

• Transportation
  • A shuttle for your arrival and return are offered in order to facilitate your visit from all cities in your country. Contact us. The rates for this shuttle are offered at a lower price than its cost. OSI will take care of the rest of the fees, in order to reduce the participation fee that is requested of participants.
  • You may arrive at the location by your own means (car, carpool, hiking that ends at the GA for Participants location, etc.) For all personalized planning, please contact us.

Geneva Forum

All participants and those who took part in the GA for Participants (see below) are invited to participate, if possible and interested, to the Geneva Forum FORUM DE GENEVE|Forum Ecologique et Economique->http://www.osi-genevaforum.org/Full...] organized every year by the OSI on the premises of the UN (United Nations Organization) in Geneva.

Only the participants who have attended the General Assembly for Participants are authorized to register to the GENEVA FORUM. As a matter of fact, the GA for participants are at times preparing for their contributions to the FORUM, and in other times training sine qua non to the well running of the FORUM.

The participants who wish to attend the GENEVA FORUM can choose:
- to organize by themselves,
- to attend with the educators; and,
- to organize a delegation with many participants.

This organization can prepare themselves by taking advantage of being at the GA for Participants, but it can take place before or after.

In all cases, the participants who wish to participate in the GENEVA FORUM, either alone or in a group, must register to the “Meeting on Excellence”, which takes place during the GENEVA FORUM. During this trip, which provides training, also provides an incredible experience at the UN for a week. The rate is calculated of the overall cost by the presence of the participant. It is therefore an extremely low cost in comparison to the costs incurred for the organizations, and it is a stepping stone that gives you access to the rest of the your projects, your career, and above all, your involvement in the community in the future of human life on the planet. The fee will include your accommodation, the food, the supervision, and all other costs (organization, management, security, logistics, administration, etc.) will be paid for by the NGO.

A real stepping stone is that you will encounter and rub shoulders with the actors in a Durable Evolution, and encounter the decision-makers as well as intervene “where it all happens”.

This holiday is multilingual (language of the participant + French and English) and the GENEVA FORUM is always expressed in French and English, and at times, even in Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, which are the other official languages of the UN.

The (GENEVA FORUM), is the Annual Convention of the Active Members part of the NGO Objectif Sciences International. It is also an economic forum (similar to the Economic Forum of Davos), an ecological forum (similar to the Earth Summit) as well as a social forum (similar to the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre); however, 4 key areas distinguish them:

• The 3 fields: Economic, Ecological and Social are approached by the same level and the same importance
• The exchange actors are active members that constitute the Objectif Sciences International, accompanied by the participants of the Solidarity Solidarity Go on a solidarity vacation? Help to broaden our current understanding of the oceans?
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• The debates and the exchanges are accessible to all free of charge, they are organized in such way so that they are directly oriented to the FORUM by the execution of solutions,
• The debates and the presentations that take place inside the UN locations, the delegates for the Permanent Representation of Government on behalf of the UN are able to assist in the exchanges that take place and to be fully connected to the realities that are exposed to them.

A subject, maybe a theme, has touched you in some way during your participation at one of the Solidarity Solidarity Go on a solidarity vacation? Help to broaden our current understanding of the oceans?
It’s all possible with our nature courses whales and dolphins. Science Stays of OSI? Do you wish to uphold the protection of wild life, help the maintenance of nomadism, contribute to the development of better conditions for women, support the protection of women in science, help in the reduction of diseases… Come contribute in the field for the GENEVA FORUM of the OSI.

• For all forms of participation, please contact us (see contact details on this page)