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The Galileo Teacher Training Programme (GTTP) team in Portugal, still in the scope of IYA2009 national plan of activities and with the support of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, has promoted the first GTTP training session for Portuguese speaking African countries (PALOP is the acronym in Portuguese). The session had 6 participants from: Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Prince. The Portuguese team was composed by astrophysicists and Galileo Teachers (GT). During one week the group had the opportunity to be exposed to several different types of tools and resources starting from the very simple ones, with very simple material ending with a robotic telescope observing session.

One of the first US Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) sessions for teachers was held in San Francisco on September. The workshop took place in the wake of the Astronomical Society of the Pacify (ASP) meeting on Science Education and Outreach.

The GTTP 1 1/2 day workshop was attended mostly by teachers but also by other astro ed professionals.