Preface

Abstract

Every four years the World Conference on Physics Education is held. In 2020 it was supposed to take place in person in Hanoi, Vietnam but COVID-19/travel restrictions forced the organization first to postpone the conference and next to make it a hybrid conference. In the end, the conference took place from Monday December 13th to Thursday December 16th, 2021. The conference had ‘Innovating physics education: from research to practice’ as its theme.The conference was organized by GIREP in close cooperation with IUPAP, ICPE, and MPTL. The main organizing university was Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam with Trinh-Ba Tran in charge. Most of the organization was done through the Indico-system made available by CERN: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1025696/. Future conferences will also make use of the Indico-system.Special about the conference was that it was held hybrid in close collaboration with 2 other locations which took over control consecutively during the day to cover most timezones around the world. These were the Uniwersitet Wroclawski in Wroclaw, Poland with Tomasz Greczylo in charge, and the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador with Eduardo Montero in charge. In Vietnam there was a small group of participants joining the conference in person.A ‘golden’ timeslot was used in Central European Time from 14h00-15h30 in which all people from all timeslots in principle could join the session. This timeslot was used for 3 of the 6 plenary talks and the closing ceremony. The other plenary talks were scheduled in accordance with the timezone of the plenary speaker. Those were replayed at a later time for people in timezones that were not able to attend the plenary talk live.The first plenary talk was by Yaron Lehavi from Israel in the golden timeslot. The second plenary talk was by Alexander Mazzolini from Australia and took place early in the morning (CET) and was replayed later during the day. The third plenary talk was by Pratibha Jolly from India in the morning (also replayed later). The final two plenary talks were both given in the golden timeslot by Tomasz Greczylo from Poland and by Paula Heron from the United States of America.There were 2 plenary workshops early in the morning from a combination of Australia and the United States of America, and 2 symposia in the morning, both from Italy.