October 15, 1996:
Luxembourg Joins GLOBE!
GLOBE is pleased to announce that Luxembourg has officially joined the program, bringing the total number of countries involved in GLOBE to forty!Luxembourg's Minister of Education, Mrs. Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, and the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg, Clay Constantinou, signed the agreement on October 10, 1996. Mr. Henri Hostert, a Senior Advisor at the Ministry, will be the point of contact for Luxembourg. The Ministry plans to initiate the GLOBE Program in their secondary education schools, and then expand it to other levels.
The first GLOBE school in Luxembourg will be Lycie Classique de Diekirch, a secondary school which already has extensive experience with meteorological observations and studies. Visit the school's home page at http://www.restena.lu/meteo_lcd/meteo_lcd.html.