Project leader: Yannick Libert, ylibert@ast.uct.ac.za Project location: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius (with Agalega, Rodrigues, Saint Brandon), Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia Project Description: The Radio Astronomy for Education project aims to support human capacity development in Africa and work toward training the valuable assets needed to reach the ambitious goal of Square Kilometer […]
Category Archives: Sub-Saharan Africa
Project leader: Claudio Paulo, claudiompaulo@gmail.com Project location: Mozambique Project Description: JEDI.mz will be a workshop based on the Joint Exchange Development Initiative to be held in Mozambique aiming to expose young university lecturers and students to research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. This workshop will provide hand-on projects where the students can learn about radio astronomy, […]
Project leader: Michele Gerbaldi, gerbaldi@iap.fr Project location: Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia Project Description: In many countries in Africa there is still a large need for young people to get involved in science studies and research. We propose a cheap and attractive module to learn how to do science […]
Project leader: Samantha Bennett, samantha@saao.ac.za Project Location: South Africa Project Description: The SAAO (South African Astronomical Observatory) library wants to create astronomy awareness in our communities. The idea is to identify ten public libraries (5 per Province) per annum and create astronomy corners. This will be done in conjunction with the Department of Sports, Arts […]
Project leader Bonnie Thurber, b-thurber@northwestern.edu Project location: Digital: Chile, China, Nepal, Russia, South Africa, and the United States Project description: Using only the sunlight striking the Earth and a wooden dowel, students can measure the circumference of the earth. Eratosthenes did it over 2,000 years ago. In Cosmos, Carl Sagan shared the process by which Eratosthenes […]