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Nature 418, 714 (15 August 2002) | doi:10.1038/418714b

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Lessons in research aim to win pupils over to science

Quirin Schiermeier

For 22 schoolchildren in the north German seaside town of Bremerhaven, the new school year has begun in unusual fashion. Every Tuesday and Thursday, they swap their classrooms for lecture theatres and labs at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) on the coast of the Wadden Sea.