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A truly world-wide project

• a relay of darkness and light, around the globe
  in one night

• uniting all countries under the banner of physics

longest optical relay path in history
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Around the globe
to all countries
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Objectives

• raising public awareness

• obtaining attention in the media

• proving international cooperation

• accomplishing a charity action

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The competition

• countries compete for participation numbers

• scores assigned for number of connections
  established

within the country to neighboring countries

• scores weighted by population density and
  economic situation

Medal awarded at EPS-13
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The organization

• global coordination by project team

• national coordination by Physics Societies

• institutes, schools, communities as participants

• TV, radio and newspapers reporting

• charity fund supervised by UNESCO

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Coordinating project team

• suggests procedures

• provides website and data base

• collects participants data

• handle large-scale media contacts

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National Physics Societies

• promote the idea in their country

• acquire participants in their country

• hold contact with the project team

• handle national media contacts

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Institutes, schools, communities

• enroll in the project (by online form)

• take up contact with the nearest partners

• organize a physics event for that night

• handles local media contacts

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TV, radio and newspapers

• report in advance

• follow the path of the light around the globe

• report on local events

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The charity fund

• governments requested to donate per established
  connection

• quest for sponsors

• supervision by UNESCO?

• net income endowed for physics education in
  developing countries (related to project Talent
  Search)

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Physics enlightens the world April 18 / 19 2005