Girls Astronomy Camp Obasanjo Space Centre, National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) campus, Abuja, Nigeria 28th April, 2018 An astronomy awareness day is being held as part of the project ‘Girls Astronomy Camp’ in Abuja, Nigeria, supported by the OAD. Fifty young girls are being selected to participate in this camp. A lot of […]
Author Archives: Ram Venugopal
In April 2018, a special session (#23) held at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool highlighted African-Europe collaborations in Astronomy and Space Science. The session, organised by Mirjana Pović (ESSTI) and Vanessa McBride (OAD) comprised two invited presentations and fourteen short contributed talks to give a continent wide overview of Africa-Europe […]
Participating Municipalities in Astrofest Tausa – 7 de mayo Sutatausa- 8 de mayo La Palma- 19 de julio Guachetá- 16 de agosto Cucunubá- 17 de agosto Agua de Dios- 21 de septiembre Chocontá- 20 y 21 de octubre Project website
Communicating Astronomy with the Public conference (CAP) 2018 was held from March 24-28 in Fukuoka, Japan. More than 400 participants from 53 countries participated in one of the largest CAP conferences ever. The OAD was represented by Dr Wanda Diaz-Merced and Ramasamy Venugopal. Dr. Merced gave a keynote on “Human factors to foster equal participation” […]
Short videos on the work being done by Global Himalayan Expedition to electrify remote communities in the Himalayas in India. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crmgVU1QJ6Y[/embedyt] [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJzd6Hxnmzw[/embedyt]
