Regional Offices Activities: OCT-DEC 2022
Andean
- The website has been updated with activities related to the solar eclipse in October and the reports from all past periods from 2014-2020
- In February, the office organised the first hackathon in the Andean Region attended by 25 undergraduate and graduate students of sciences and engineering.
- The upcoming IV Workshop Astronomía en los Andes will focus on “Engaged communities in development through Astrotourism”. The main goal of this IV Workshop is to promote high-quality, responsible and innovative tourism of stars in the Andean Region, especially in rural areas where it could become a real driving force for local economies.
Arab
- The office organized, with the Jordanian Astronomical Society (JAS), the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Science (AUASS) and some other Jordanian & Arab institutions, several public lectures, seminars, and courses via Zoom
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In January, a conference on the “Important Figures in the History of the Arab-Islamic Civilization in Science and Geography” was organized with the cooperation of the Jordanian Society for the History of Science. 150 participants joined from several Arab countries.
East Africa
- The East African Office convened a special session on the African Dark Sky and Astro-tourism Strategy at the annual African Astronomical Society conference in March
- The office presented its activities to the Ugandan Parliament Science and Technology Standing Committee, which visited the Space Science and Geospatial Institute in Ethiopia on February 14, 2023
- The office director participated in the X-Vision 23 COSPAR & IAU I-HOW capacity building workshops in South Africa
East Asia
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Preparations are ongoing for the Astro Ecology activity, which will be held in Mongolia in May 2023.
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A 5-day Science Teacher Training was conducted in Shanghai in March
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Attended the annual conference of Chinese Space Survey Telescope in March
North America
- With funding from the Heising-Simons Foundation, the office has issued a call for mini grants for a Women and Girls in Astronomy Program
Portuguese Language
- The office is planning the annual PLOAD meeting in Brazil in October around the time of annular eclipse
- Outreach presentations were organised in Mozambique
- Participated in 3 asteroid search campaigns in Mozambique, Portugal
- OruMbya project funded by the OAD has started activities in Brazil
- Organization of a national art exhibition on African, Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous cosmologies
South East Asia
- SEA+ Translation project continues in Cambodia and Timor-Leste. This project is aimed to encourage the people in SEA region and beyond to get the astronomy booklets in their own languages
South West And Central Asia
- An International Women’s Day event was held at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) by UN: DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality
- The office participated in the largest regional event Digitec Expo 2023; Astronomy related digital technologies: robotic telescopes, digital receivers, virtual observatories
- The IAU HOW-I Workshop in Radio Astronomy 2023 will take place in July 2023 in Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey
Southern Africa
- BIUST-MPG African Astronomy School will be held in Botswana from 26 June to 7 July 2023
- African Geophysical Society conference to be hosted by the Physics Society of Zambia in Lusaka from 3-5 October 2023. Prior to that there will be an International Summer school on space weather supported by the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI)
- Astroscience Exploration Network conference will be held on 1-2 June 2023 in Lusaka
West Africa
- PAPSSN Mobility Program: The 3rd call for the selection of participants has concluded
- VASCO Citizen science is ongoing with the verification of some identified candidates which have transients.
- Participated in Women and girls in Astronomy celebrations