Project title: Institute Twinning between the University of Antioquia (Colombia) and the Leiden Observatory Project leader: Dr. Rafael Martínez-Galarza Website: https://sites.google.com/site/astrotwincolo/meetings/2014-2nd-meeting In the context of the IAU Strategic Plan, and in parallel to the creation of an Andean Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (Andean ROAD), the Astronomy undergraduate program at the University of Antioquia (UofA) […]
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Project title: Joint Exchange Development Initiative for Africa Project leader: Dr. Nadeem Oozeer Astronomy has grown significantly in recent years and the amount of scientific data available online has exploded. Astronomers have been doing data mining for centuries, characterizing the known, assigning the new and discovering unknowns. These skills are more critical than ever especially […]
Project title: The fourth East African Astronomy Workshop Project leader: Dr. Pheneas Nkundabakura The series of workshops in Astronomy in East Africa began in 2009 during the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). The first workshop was held in November 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya and was supported largely by the International Astronomical Union/ Teaching for Astronomy […]
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Project location: Mongolia Project leader: Tuguldur Sukhbold, sukhbold@ucolick.org In Mongolia, astronomy is not part of the standard high school curriculum and only a few schools even address it as part of the physics class. In the whole country only a few schools have telescopes, but almost all of them are too old and unusable. Therefore, in order to promote the teaching […]