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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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 […]
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 […]
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
Suleiman Baraka was interviewed by Al-Jazeera where he talks about Astronomy in Gaza and the Gaza Ambassadors of Mars project. Read the article: Gaza’s starman aims to fight occupation with science