POP into Protecting our Planet Day in November 2025!
Protecting Our Planet Day (POP) is the inspiring live-streamed event for schools brought to you by the UK Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) at STEM Learning and in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency.
The next edition of POP will take place this November. Join us for a world full of experts and leading researchers - passionate people working to protect our planet from here on Earth and from space - popping into your classroom.
POP25 will welcome new inspirational speakers as well as previous legendary partners popping back in!
Register your interest in advance and be the first to hear about how your class or whole school can get involved with POP25.
What happens during POP25?
An audience of over 140,000 joined POP24 last November for a programme of live link-ups with inspirational experts working to tackle climate change and the restoration of nature, interactive primary school sessions, and career journeys from studying STEM to protecting our planet.
This year we are adding even more enlightening sessions for you to pop in across the day…and all with live Q&A with POP25 experts around the world!
Discover how space agencies, satellites and scientists work to protect our planet - how they monitor, model, predict and provide solutions to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity across the globe. Be inspired by panellists in the afternoon career sessions, hear about their backstories in studying STEM subjects to careers working to protect the planet - from Earth and space!
You’ll be able to pop in to favourite topics, book for a session or two, take part in primary school activity sessions, STEM Clubs Hour or join us for the whole day. Check in with student groups, your class or whole school.
Check out the world full of experts and leading researchers who were involved in POP24.
POP24 highlights included:
Discover how going into space is protecting our planet with Mission Control experts from the European Space Agency.
Q&A with experts around the planet - including those at the bottom of the world to pioneers protecting biodiversity for all of us.
Live link up with leading researchers onboard the RSS Sir David Attenborough, one of the most advanced polar research vessels in the world.
See the success of leading conservation projects around the UK - from red squirrels to white storks, from Scottish wildcats to Caledonian pinewoods.
Primary students can earn their first live badge in the European Space Agency’s challenge, Climate Detectives Kids.
POP24 presenters live at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, exploring our incredible ecosystems through their interactive spaces and places.
Dive into the incredible science behind protecting the ocean - from satellites to seagrass, from researchers to restoration - and discover why Ocean Colour really matters!
Beam in to the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project, Cornwall for an interactive primary school session.
Pop over to the Antarctica Peninsula for an incredible link-up with British Antarctic Survey research pioneers at Rothera Research Station.
Interview with Boaty McBoatface on the epic scientific odyssey to the ocean’s 'twilight zone', perhaps changing what we know about the pace of climate change.
Meet hidden heroes already working on innovations and research in the UK. Learn about their journeys from studying STEM subjects to protecting our planet.
Join in the STEM CLUBS HOUR finale from Dynamic Earth with a huge range of inspirational climate change resources from ESERO-UK and our supporters.
Explore a world full of sessions, resources and partners
Check out the last year's programme featuring a world of live link-ups, talks full of inspiration and exciting classroom activities.
Participate in STEM Clubs Hour at 15.30 with schools nationwide and run space-themed and climate change activities after school.
Learn about the partners of POP - ESERO-UK and STEM Learning - plus contributors and supporters.
Protecting Our Planet Day is an official event run by ESERO-UK and STEM Learning, funded by the European Space Agency.
ESERO-UK aims to use the context of space to open doors for young people by delivering engaging, world-class teaching in STEM.
The UK Space Agency is at the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability.
Various images for POP24 courtesy of British Antarctic Survey; Dynamic Earth; ESA (including image containing modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2021, processed by ESA and ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative Data, processed by Plymouth Marine Laboratory); Eden Project; Dr Sammie Buzzard, Northumbria University; Luke Helmer, Solent Seascape Project.
