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  • Make your Investment for a better World

    In order to achieve GTTP goals it was decided to promote Teacher Training workshops in developing regions by providing seed funding and basic support.

    To complement institutional funding it was also decided to ask for contributions from the community in order to increase the number of supported proposals.

  • Dark Skies Ranger Campaign

    The Dark Sky Awareness and the Galileo Teacher Training Program decided to launch a joint effort: "Dark Skies Ranger Campaign", for the new school year joining both cornerstones goals.

  • International Asteroid Search Campaign

    The International Asteroid Search Campaign (IASC) is a program for high school and college students who search just hours-old astronomical images for original discoveries. These discoveries include Main Belt asteroids and near-Earth objects (NEOs). Students download the images on a daily basis, perform the analysis with provided software tools, and report their discoveries, which ultimately are recognized by the Minor Planet Center (MPC; Harvard University) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
More stars. Less light. Participate in GLOBE at Night!
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:30

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Bellow a call from the organizers of Globe at Night

Calling all Earthlings! Take a few minutes to get involved in the GLOBE at Night campaign to preserve dark skies! GLOBE at Night is a citizen-science campaign open to people all over the world to raise awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citizen-scientists to measure their night sky brightness and report their observations to a website from a computer or smart phone. Light pollution threatens not only our "right to starlight", but can affect energy consumption, wildlife and health. Through 2011, people in 115 countries contributed 66,000 measurements, making GLOBE at Night one of the most successful light pollution awareness campaigns to date. Please join us to participate in the 2012 campaign an hour after sunset til about 10pm January 14 through 23, February 12 through 21, March 13 through 22, and April 11 through 20. For information and resources, visit us at www.globeatnight.org.

 
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Call for proposals: receive your own free tactile moon
Tuesday, 17 January 2012 23:39

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With funding support from Europlanet and Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECyT), Observatorio Astronomico of Universidad de Valencia, Spain, manufactured a set tactile moons to be tested by different target groups. If you are interested on receiving one of this 3D printed Moon models, just write a letter of interest, explaining how you would test the tactile moon and what kind of teaching and outreach activities would you develop for this project.

The final model and selected activities will be made freely available at the GTTP website for everyone to enjoy. The users' feedback will help improve the design and release a final and fully tested tactile model.

 
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NUCLIO & GTTP Comenius and Gruntvig Training Courses 2012
Sunday, 08 January 2012 00:00

We are announcing 4 new Comenius and Gruntvig training events

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The first two events dates are already for the next call for application with deadline Januray 16th

Mysterious Skies - Astronomy and Astro-Art (in partnership with TWAN)

Bridges - Bridging the skies, the earth and the human beings

The following two have are taking place only during the next school year and the deadline will be April 30th.

Universe Quest - Building Games for Education (in partnership with Learnit3D)

Astronomy@MyBackPack.

In order to participate in these training events you need to fill the pre-registration form. We will send you a certificate or your pre-registration. With this document you have to apply to your national Comenius and Gruntvig Agency. If you succeed in your application you have to let us know ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) as soon as possible in order to confirm your participation and give you further information related to the course payment and other practical details

 
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