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 […]
Category Archives: Sub-Saharan Africa
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 […]
Project title: Limpopo Astronomy Public Outreach, South Africa Project leader: Mr. Kosma Coronaios Limpopo Astronomy Public Outreach will visit 13 venues in various towns in the Limpopo Province of South Africa over the course of a 5 month period. An astronomy display, set up during the course of the day and part of the evening, […]
[nggallery id=59] This year’s IAU (OAD) Astronomy for the Public first event was held at Mall of the North in Polokwane on the 29th March. Fittingly our last IAU (OAD) event for the year was at the same venue and coincided with International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN 2013) in the evening, as well as the […]
Project title: Astronomy lectures for university lecturers, students and teachers in Ghana Project leader: Dr. Jacob Ashong A workshop for astronomy development will be offered at the Accra Planetarium to university students and teachers from all over Ghana and neighboring countries – Burkina Faso, Senegal, Nigeria. The goal of the workshop is to bring together […]