POP into Protecting our Planet Day in November 2025!
POP into Protecting our Planet Day on 27th 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.
Join us on Tuesday 27th November when a world full of experts and leading researchers - passionate people working to protect our planet from here on Earth and from space - pop into your classroom. POP25 welcomes new inspirational speakers as well as previous legendary partners popping back in!
Register for POP25 and pop in and out of sessions across the day with your class or whole school.
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 across the globe. Meet some of the UK's pioneering conservation programmes celebrating the role of trees in protecting our planet and hosting precious biodiversity for us all. 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.
POP25 highlights include:
Discover how going into space is protecting our planet with Mission Control experts from the European Space Agency.
Live Q&A with experts around the planet - all pioneers passionate about protecting the planet for all of us.
Live link up with leading researchers onboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough, one of the most advanced polar research vessels in the world.
Celebrate trees - their vital role in protecting the planet and hosting biodiversity for all of us - with National Tree Week partners in our POP - IN sessions.
Hear an awesome STEM backstory with Meganne Christian - studying science to becoming a scientist in Antarctica to being selected to train as an ESA astronaut.
POP25 presenters live at the Centre of Alternative Technology, exploring incredible satellite data research for the Living Earth/Living Wales programme.
Go Behind-the-scenes with producers from the current BBC series, Kingdom; hear the amazing ability nature has to adapt in the face of climate change.
Beam in live to the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project, Cornwall for an interactive primary school session.
Pop down to the Antarctica Peninsula for an incredible link-up with British Antarctic Survey research pioneers at Rothera Research Station.
Dive into the incredible STEM careers protecting the ocean in afternoon sessions - from satellites to seagrass, from researchers to restoration.
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 STEM CLUBS HOUR with Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh and 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.
