Columba-Hypatia: Astronomy for Peace Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/columba-hypatia-astronomy-for-peace/ Astronomy for a better world! Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:19:46 +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 Columba-Hypatia: Astronomy for Peace Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/columba-hypatia-astronomy-for-peace/ 32 32 People of Peace Education Features OAD Project Coordinator https://astro4dev.org/people-of-peace-education-features-oad-project-coordinator/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:18:07 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=23147 Dr. Francesca Fragkoudi, an astrophysicist & science communicator, who founded and co-led the OAD project “Columba-Hypatia: Astronomy for Peace” was recently featured in the People of Peace Education. People of Peace Education is a project developed and maintained by the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research and the International Institute on Peace Education in partnership [...]

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]]> Winner of Falling Walls Engage 2018 https://astro4dev.org/18215/ Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:56:51 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18215 Francesca Fragcoudi, PI of Columba Hypatia: Astronomy for Peace was one of two winners of the Falling Walls Engage for 2018. Falling Walls Engage is an international platform for all forms of science engagement, hosted by Falling Walls in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Its goal is to showcase successful science engagement projects from [...]

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]]> Final report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-31/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 06:36:31 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17606 “Columba-Hypatia: Astronomy for Peace” is a joint astronomy outreach project by GalileoMobile and the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) which takes place on the island of Cyprus. The project aims to inspire young people, through astronomy, to be curious about science and the cosmos, while also using astronomy as a tool for promoting [...]

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]]> Update: November workshops https://astro4dev.org/update-novemer-workshops/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:57:35 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17104 Columba Hypatia organized more activities in the week of Nov 20-26. Activities that paired up two more schools from north and south of the border in Cyprus,in Famagusta and Ayia Napa on the 22nd and 24th of November Public talk: Small to Large Scales in the Universe An event for youths (13-18 year olds) from [...]

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]]> Columba-Hypatia at the Cyprus Friendship Program Camp https://astro4dev.org/columba-hypatia-at-the-cyprus-friendship-program-camp/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:54:49 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17102 For the fifth consecutive year, the Cyprus Friendship Programme  (CFP) organised a one-week summer camp for Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot 15-18 year olds. The teenagers had the opportunity to live alongside each other and participate in workshops, games and activities together. This year there were 48 campers, approximately 50-50 from each side and about half and [...]

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]]> Update: Bi-communal workshops https://astro4dev.org/update-bi-communal-workshops/ Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:34:53 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=16691 Since the start of 2017 the “Columba-Hypatia: Astronomy for Peace” project – by GalileoMobile and the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research – has carried out bicommunal astronomy activities with teenagers from all over Cyprus at the Home for Cooperation, carried out two public outreach evenings for the public and has reached five primary schools across the [...]

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]]> Article on Columba Hypatia project https://astro4dev.org/article-on-columba-hypatia-project/ Fri, 12 May 2017 12:33:43 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=16484 GalileoMobile’s new initiative, the “Columba-Hypatia Project: Astronomy for Peace” project, will share astronomy with young people from the divided island of Cyprus throughout 2017. On 10-20 May, the project will visit various schools in the island to inspire young people, through astronomy, to be curious about the world we live in, about science and the cosmos, while [...]

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]]> First Workshop https://astro4dev.org/first-workshop/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:00:01 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=16356 First bi-communal youth workshop of the ‘Columba-Hypatia:Astronomy for Peace’ Project implemented by GalileoMobile and the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research. The workshop used Astronomy to bring together students from both sides of the border of Cyprus

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]]> Overview of Project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-project-astronomyforpeace/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 09:03:37 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=15780 “Columba-Hypatia: Astronomy for Peace” is a joint astronomy outreach project by GalileoMobile and the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) which will take place on the divided island of Cyprus. The project aims to inspire young people, through astronomy, to be curious about the world we live in, about science and the cosmos, while [...]

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