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Verviers, Arlon, Gembloux, La Reid

Starting from Monday, March 18, over 6,000 primary and secondary education students are expected for the Liège-Luxemburg Springtime of Sciences, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation major scientific culture get-together.

On Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 the interactive exhibition will open to every type of public and to families at the Liège Zoology Institute. A continuing hit with the crowds (over 3,000 people) looking to discover the sciences!

The 13^th edition of the Springtime of Sciences showcases the blue gold, in the framework of the International Year of Water. What is water? Why is it a vital resource? Where is it found? Who deals with it? What journey does it take to arrive at our taps? How does it produce energy? Etc.

All in all some fifty workshops created by the ULg and the region’s high schools offer to give responses to these questions, and many more. In Liège the interactive exhibition at the Liège Zoology Institute is the main attraction pole. Activities are also being arranged for Verviers, Arlon, Gembloux and La Reid.

If the week starting Monday March 18 is reserved for primary and secondary education classes the interactive exhibition at the Liège Zoology Institute (quai Van Beneden 4020 Liège) is also open to the general public, and notably to families (activities have been adapted for children from the age of 5 onwards), on the weekend of March 23 and 24, from 14.00 to 18.00 (free visit, without reservation). It is a privileged opportunity to meet and speak with the professors and researchers who have designed the workshops, all in a convivial atmosphere.

The Springtime of Sciences, co-ordinated by the science dissemination units of the five Faculties of Science at the francophone universities (ULg, ULB, UCL, UMons, Université de Namur), has over 13 years become THE science culture get-together in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

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