FAI

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FAI

• Balloon Commission
• Youth Activities

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Agenda

• 1. Youth Activites
• German initiatives
• German and French Youth Office (OFAJ)
• Others cascaded initiatives
• Current situation, challenges and feedback
• 2. Ballooning and Educational purposes
• Catalyst for discovering science
• Nazca Balloon project
• 2006/7 initiatives
• 3. Movie
• Youth Camp in Germany and France
• OFAJ Camps 2004 and 2005

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1.Youth activities in ballooning
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Club Youth camps

• 1973 First youth camp
• Balloon Club of Stuttgart
• Intention was to create activities with club
  members children
• Annual camp is still hold today
• _at_ www.ballonsportgruppe-stuttgart.de

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Federation Youth Camps

• As of 1990, the german balloon federation (DFSV)
  together with the airsports youth of the german
  aeroclub.
• Hold in summer, annual camp since 1991
• Over the last 15 years, other camps were
  organised but not such a follow up.

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International Youth Camps

• First International Youth Camp held in 1996 in
  Bitterfeld during the Gas Balloon World
  Championships
• With the help of the CIA/FAI
• To trigger other similar initiatives in other
  federations
• Since then annual camp, but only held in Germany
• 2006 in Ortenberg / Hessen
• _at_ www.fai.org/ballooning/camp

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German-French Youth Camps

• First contacts in 2002 where a team was invited
  as guest during the Hot Air Balloon World
  Championships in Châtellerault (France).
• Then first camp held in Arc-et-Senans (France) in
  2003
• Annual Camp
• Location permuting in France and in Germany

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Other Youth activities

• This generated other ideas around youth
  initiatives in both countries
• Meeting Jeunes Brûleurs in France
• Meeting Juniorenmeisterschaft in Germany
• Gathering school and club contacts are done to
  liaise with schools in Germany. The Balloon Club
  of Mössingen is participating in this initiative.

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Other Youth activities

• Participating in the project Youth Airgames of
  the airsports youth of Baden-Württemberg
  (Germany)
• Objective was to set up activities together with
  the youth of all airsports, to develop the spirit
  to be part of the airsports community
• _at_ www.bwlv-airgames.de/

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Some feedback

• 1973 to 1990 Only youth activities with
  Ballonsportgruppe Stuttgart
• It took 15 years to develop a respectable program
  of youth activities by the ballooning federation
• How long will it take to convince clubs to set up
  attractive conditions, to build a real community,
  and not being only a rent-a-balloon-station, to
  foster youngsters integration ?

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Some feedback

• Ballooning is not a typical activity for young
  people
• Only in a few countries we have youth activities,
  at the moment in Germany and France
• But only few clubs and balloonists are engaged in
  capturing youth interest in ballooning

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Some feedback

• But the need of a more robust structure appeared
  to be crucial future initiatives
• Indeed, the main challenge to overcome is the
  cost
• With the increasing help of sponsors and a
  helpful community in adapting the conditions to
  youngsters, this can be more affordable and
  valuable in return
• Youth enthusiasm around ballooning can also be
  captured and fostered by gathering different
  people from different horizon countries or
  airsports

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What is their feedback

• Every young involved enjoyed ballooning
• They from the different initiatives
• Had the feeling to be part of the air sport
  community
• Learnt that teamwork is key to this activity and
  also beyond
• Understood that self discipline and rigourness
  during flight preparation and handling of the
  material really matters
• Had great fun with their peers and coaches

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2. Balloon Education

• Balloon as a platform to discover
• School project Nazca-Balloon
• Planned projects
• Châtellerault Atelier de l'Aérostation
• Germany Luftsportjugend Naturschutzbund

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Balloons Catalyst to bring knowledge

• The balloon was the space shuttle for the
  airspace
• The atmosphere had been discovered and studied by
  balloons
• Balloons are still used to get meteorological
  information
• Balloons are used for scientific research, for
  example balloons are flying around the pole

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Platform of observation

• Atmospheric effects temperature, pressure,
  humidity...
• Geographic
• Nature

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Nacza Balloon

• In the desert of Nazca (Peru), humans used the
  desert as a painting wall. The figures they
  painted can only have a meaning from the air
• An american thougt they must have had the need to
  fly to see what was the results. And he thought
  that was only possible with a balloon.

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Nazca balloon

• Jim Woodman built a balloon with materials the
  nazca indiens could have used, and he had flown
  with this balloon over the desert.
• Good starting points of discussion in school
• What proves that they built such an aircraft ?
• Which theory did they use ? How did they build it
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• What was their material at disposal at that time
  ?
• The advantage of this balloon
• Implies understanding of different techniques in
  physical, geometry,
• It is very fast to construct,
• Is ideal for short school projects

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2006/7 projects

• Project of Atelier de lAérostation
• Create youngs awareness and understanding of
  different balloons (Hot air and gas balloon)
• During 5 days funny theory and building of small
  aircraft
• With the help of the city and the school

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2006/7 projects

• Airsport and nature in harmony
• Summer 2007
• Objective capture youth interest in ballooning
  as well as environmental and nature issues.

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Wrap up

• There are a lot of possibillities to use
  ballooning for educational purposes
• Resource is also a key factor, so we can only
  realize few of our ideas
• And it seems that there is no (or very very
  little) interest of federations in youth
  activities
• But they are the only future for airsports

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3. Movie

• Youth Camp in Germany and France
• OFAJ Camps 2004 and 2005
• 18 mn

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Thank you !