Online workshop for worldwide francophone teachers, offered by Discover the Univers/À la découverte de l’Univers As planned, the online workshop was offered between November 9th and 27th 2015. We had a total of 176 participants from 11 countries on 3 continents. Not all participants were very active, as in all free online workshops, but a […]
Author Archives: Ram Venugopal
Goal NIATW was addressed to advanced students and researchers, mainly from South-East Asian countries where such training opportunities and adequate facilities are not always readily available. The focus of this first NIATW was about time-variable phenomena in Astrophysics, with emphasis on short time scales from days to sub-seconds. Examples are: stellar pulsation, oscillations, occultations, transits, […]
Through the support of OAD and AWB (Astronomers Without Borders), UNAWE-Tanzania and Telescopes to Tanzania carried out this project in collaboration with Organization for Science Education and Observatory (Center for Science) in Arusha region of northern Tanzania. The astronomy project was successfully introduced in Tanzanian schools as a tool to inspire teaching and understanding of […]
The IAU-Office of Astronomy for Development’s (OAD) fourth annual call for proposals has concluded and 18 projects have been selected to receive funding in 2016. The call for proposals received a total of 124 applications between June and September 2015. The three Task Forces reviewed all the completed applications and submitted recommendations to the Steering […]
the final report can be downloaded as PDF
