These are some of the news articles produced during a single week of the meeting of the Brazilian Astronomical Society, earlier this month. University news, announcing the event: http://jornal.usp.br/ciencias/ciencias-exatas-e-da-terra/evento-da-sociedade-astronomica-brasileira-reune-estrelas-da-area/ National TV report on the launch of the Brazilian Society for Astrobiology, that happened during our meeting: http://tvcultura.com.br/videos/62508_jornal-da-cultura-1-edicao-07-09-2017.html Veja, the most widely read magazine […]
Monthly Archives: September 2017
International Workshop on Space Education Addressed by Ethiopian State Minister of Science and Technology His Excellency, the Ethiopian State Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Afework Kassu addressed a gathering of officials, dignitaries, education experts and teachers from Africa and Europe on October 7, 2017 in Addis Ababa. It marked the opening of the Space […]
In this guest blog, Megan Ray Nichols explores some ways in which developments in Astronomy and space have made their way into the aerospace sector Of all the flights that people take, none top the flights into space, whether to launch humans or satellites that peer into our univese. Such work has made contributed to pretty amazing changes […]
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 […]
The OAD is engaging with development economists from the RESEP centre (Research on Socio-Economic Policy) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. ReSEP is a group of researchers in the Department of Economics that has a long term research focus on issues of poverty, income distribution, social mobility, economic development and social policy. Through a series of talks and discussions, OAD […]