There has been a gradual decline in the study of science and related fields in schools, especially in African countries, due to the lack of demand for careers in the fields of science. With the advent of the Square Kilometer Array Project and Africa winning a major share of the project, it has become necessary […]
Category Archives: Sub-Saharan Africa
HBSST is a workshop designed to promote astronomy appreciation for primary schools and junior secondary school science teachers in Nigeria and to bring the basic observational tools of Astronomy and space science closer to them. In 2015, through the effort of the Centre for Basic Space Science Nsukka, in Nigeria, Astronomy has recently been accredited […]
Madagascar has recently introduced astronomy and astrophysics curriculum at Honours and Masters level at the University of Antananarivo. Students come from Physics background have embarked into the programme however there are lack of local expertise to conduct widely used cutting edge tools for research. This workshop will deliver a practical programming in Python for astronomy […]
Mozambique lacks highly qualified astronomers and astrophysics as well as a scientific culture in the subject. To minimize these shortcomings and foster interest on the subject among young university students we organised thee activities as described in the OAD proposal. JEDI – MZ 1. Country of workshop: Mozambique 2. City/Location: Praia do Bilene – Tenda Tora 3. […]
Report of the Astrolab project for the period July 2015 – June 2016 Michèle Gerbaldi and Jean-Pierre De Greve The 5th EAAS workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 29 June – 1 July 2015: Simpemba, Copperbelt University, Zambia, gave a presentation on ‘Experiences of the Starlight in the university lab’. The planned training sessions of M. […]