Amanar: Under the Same Sky Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/amanar-under-the-same-sky/ Astronomy for a better world! Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:39:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Amanar: Under the Same Sky Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/amanar-under-the-same-sky/ 32 32 Nature article https://astro4dev.org/19139/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:39:33 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=19139 Comment in Nature “The support of the international astronomical community to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is fundamental to advance the rights and needs of the most vulnerable groups of our global society. Among these groups are the refugees.”

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]]> Phase 2 at refugee camps in Algeria https://astro4dev.org/phase-2-at-refugee-camps-in-algeria/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 05:46:11 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18912 The below Press release was published by IAC The second part of the project begins on Tuesday, October 15, in which an international team of astronomers and educators will travel to the refugee camps in Tindouf to carry out outreach activities with Saharawi students and teachers. During their stay in the Sahrawi refugee camps in [...]

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]]> Video: Activities in the Canary islands https://astro4dev.org/video-activities-in-the-canary-islands/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 06:37:11 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18852 Video of activities on the Grand Canary islands [Spanish] Event conducted on 03 Aug 2019 at the Centro de Educación Infantil y Primaria Arucas, in the Gran Canaria. Organized by the Asociación Canaria de Amigos del Pueblo Saharaui (ACAPS), Galileo Mobile, and the Agrupación Astronómica de Gran Canaria. Vídeo by J. Naranjo Fotografía.

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]]> Articles in the media https://astro4dev.org/articles-in-the-media/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:55:02 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18760 https://www.iac.es/divulgacion.php?op1=16&id=1585&lang=en https://www.cta-observatory.org/amanar-under-the-same-sky/ https://www.eldiario.es/canariasahora/lapalmaahora/sociedad/Grantecan-abre-cupula-ninos-saharauis_0_918308967.html https://www.eldia.es/sociedad/2019/07/12/amanar-cielo-tinduf/992089.html

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]]> Amanar program announcement https://astro4dev.org/amanar-program-announcement/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 13:53:45 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18665 The following is from an article in the website of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Amanar , which means Pleiades in Berber, is a project of dissemination of Astronomy , to inspire the Saharawi community through the wonders of our Universe and promote peace, mutual understanding and a sense of citizenship under the same sky.  This [...]

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]]> Video and website https://astro4dev.org/video-and-website/ Sun, 09 Jun 2019 14:02:13 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18669 Amanar project website Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnS1C-msTJk Amanar is a project organised by GalileoMobile, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Canary Association of Friendship with the Sahrawi People (ACAPS), to inspire children and teachers from the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, Algeria, and the Canary Islands, Spain, using Astronomy. ​Its aim is to promote quality science education [...]

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]]> Overview https://astro4dev.org/overview-3/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:08:31 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17997 “Amanar” is a project organised by GalileoMobile, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Canary Association of Friendship with the Sahrawi People (ACAPS). Its objective is to inspire children and teachers from the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, Algeria, and the Canary Islands, Spain, using Astronomy. The aim is to [...]

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