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The International Year of Astronomy
  • Vision
  • To help the citizens of the world rediscover
    their place in the Universe through the day and
    night time sky, and thereby engage a personal
    sense of wonder and discovery.
  • Celebration
  • A global celebration of astronomy and its
    contributions to society and culture, highlighted
    by the 400th anniversary of the first use of an
    astronomical telescope by Galileo.

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Goals Objectives
  • Increase scientific awareness.
  • Promote widespread access to new knowledge and
    observing experiences.
  • Empower astronomical communities in developing
    countries.
  • Support and improve formal and informal science
    education.
  • Provide a modern image of science and scientists.

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Goals Objectives
  • Facilitate new networks and strengthen existing
    ones.
  • Improve the gender-balanced representation of
    scientists at all levels and promote greater
    involvement by underrepresented minorities in
    scientific and engineering careers.
  • Facilitate the preservation and protection of the
    worlds cultural and natural heritage of dark
    skies and historical astronomical sites.

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Organisational Structure
Organisational
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Current Status (Feb '08)
  • 106 National Nodes
  • 49 National Websites
  • 17 Organisational Nodes
  • 11 Organisational Associates
  • 11 Cornerstone Projects
  • 8 Special Task Groups
  • Thousands of people actively involved!

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Global Cornerstone Projects
  • 100 Hours of Astronomy
  • Round-the-clock, round-the-globe celebration
    live webcasts observing events open doors
    public talks activities in schools and much more
    activities. The 100 hours of astronomy will
    take place on the weekend of Thursday, April 2nd,
    through Sunday, April 5th, 2009.
  • Chair Dennis Crabtree (Chile)
  • The Galileoscope
  • A simple, accessible, easy-to-assemble and
    easy-to-use telescope that can be distributed by
    the millions.
  • Ideally, every participant in an IYA2009 event
    should be able to take home one of these little
    telescopes.
  • Chair Rick Fienberg (USA)

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Global Cornerstone Projects
  • Cosmic Diary
  • Professional astronomers will blog text, images
    and video about their lives, families, friends,
    hobbies and interests, as well as their work,
    their latest research findings and the challenges
    they face in their research.
  • Chair Mariana Barrosa (Portugal)
  • The Portal to the Universe
  • A comprehensive directory of observatories,
    facilities, astronomical societies, amateur
    astronomy societies, space artists, science
    communication universities, as well as a news,
    image and video-aggregator and Web 2.0
    collaborative tools for astronomy multimedia
    interconnectivity.
  • Chair Lars Lindberg Christensen (ESA/Hubble)

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Global Cornerstone Projects
  • She is as Astronomer
  • The aim of the project is to provide neutral,
    informative and helpful information to female
    professional and amateur astronomers, students
    and those who are generally interested in the
    gender equality problem in science.
  • Chairs Enikö Patkos(ESO) and Francesca Primas
    (ESO)
  • Dark Skies Awareness
  • IAU will collaborate with the NOAO, International
    Dark-Sky Association and other national and
    international partners in dark sky and
    environmental education on several related
    themes.
  • Chair Connie Walker (USA)

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Global Cornerstone Projects
  • Astronomy and World Heritage
  • UNESCO and the IAU are working together to
    implement a research and education collaboration
    as part of UNESCOs Astronomy and World Heritage
    project.
  • IAU Contact Karel van der Hucht (IAU General
    Secretary)
  • Galileo Teacher Training Programme
  • A unique global effort in empowering teachers to
    exploit the existing astronomical educational
    resources. The Galileo Teacher Training Programme
    will create a hyper-network (a network of
    networks of networks).
  • Chairs Jim Manning (USA) Rosa Doran (Portugal)

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Global Cornerstone Projects
  • Universe Awareness
  • Universe Awareness (UNAWE) is an international
    outreach activity that aims to inspire young
    disadvantaged children with the beauty and
    grandeur of the universe.
  • Chair Carolina Ödman (NL)
  • The Universe from the Earth
  • The Universe from the Earth is an exhibition that
    brings astronomical images to a wider audience in
    non-traditional venues like art museums, public
    galleries, shopping malls and public gardens.
  • Chairs Kimberly Kowal Arcand Megan Watzke (USA)

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Global Cornerstone Projects
  • Developing Astronomy Globally
  • A cornerstone project that responds to the
    acknowledgement that astronomy needs to be
    developed professionally (universities,
    research), publicly (communication, media,
    amateur groups) and educationally (schools) in
    various countries that do not have strong
    astronomy communities. The implementation would
    be focussed on training and development at each
    of the areas mentioned above.
  • Chair Kevin Govender (South Africa)

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Global Cornerstone Projects
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Special Projects
  • The World At Night
  • The World At Night is a new programme to create
    and exhibit a collection of stunning photographs
    of the worlds most beautiful and historic sites
    against a night time backdrop of stars, planets
    and celestial events. The eternally peaceful sky
    looks the same above all the landmarks and
    symbols of different nations and regions,
    attesting to the truly unified nature of Earth as
    a planet rather than an amalgam of
    human-designated territories.
  • Links with some IYA2009 Cornerstone Projects
    From Earth to the Universe, Dark Skies Awareness
    and IAU/UNESCO Astronomy and World Heritage
  • Chair Babak Tafreshi (Iran)

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Special Task Groups
  • Opening event at UNESCO, Chair Francoise Combes
    (France)
  • Closing Event (under establishment)
  • EU Seventh Framework Programme, Chair Claus
    Madsen (ESO)
  • Kepler, Chair Terry Mahoney (UK)
  • Galileo, Chair Paolo Galluzzi (Italy)
  • IYA2009 New Years Eve Events, Chair Helen Sim
    (Australia)
  • Solar Physics, Chair Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño
    (Spain)
  • Evaluation (under establishment)

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Activities
  • e.g.
  • Sidewalk Astronomy
  • Astronomy Olympiads
  • Open Doors
  • Star parties
  • Public Talks
  • Exhibitions
  • Stamps
  • Science Cafés
  • Websites
  • Documentaries

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Meetings
  • ESO (Garching, Germany), 3-4 March 2007
  • www.communicatingastronomy.org/iya_eso
  • CAP2007 (Athens, Greece), 811 October 2007
  • www.communicatingastronomy.org/cap2007
  • MEARIM2008 (Cairo, Egypt), 5-10 April 2008
  • http//www.mearim.cu.edu.eg
  • AAS 212thMeeting, joint with the
  • ASP (St. Louis, USA), 1-5 June 2008
  • http//www.aas.org/meetings/aas212
  • APRIM2008 (Kunming, China), 3-6 August 2008
  • http//aprim.ynao.ac.cn
  • JENAM2008 (Vienna, Austria), September 2008
  • http//www.univie.ac.at/jenam2008

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IYA2009 Roadmap
Feb IYA2009 EC EG meeting Feb SPoCs kick-off
meeting Aug Secretariat structure set up Aug
Fundraising Sep Cornerstone Projects Sep
Brochure ver. 2 Oct CAP2007 conference Dec UN
proclamation
'03-'06 Inception
'07 Planning
2003 IAU General Assembly in Sydney, AU 2005
UNESCO endorsement 2006 IAU General Assembly in
Prague, CZ 2006 IAU EC WG structure set up
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IYA2009 Roadmap
Jan Opening Ceremony UNESCO HQ, Paris,
France Jan-Dec Global Events Global Cornerstone
Implementation Regional Events National
Events Local Events Aug IAU General Assembly in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
'08 Preparation
'09 Implementation
Jan Dec Cornerstone Projects development Jan
Dec National programmes development Jan Dec
IYA2009 SPoCs Regional Meetings May Website
ver. 2 April Brochure ver. 3 Nov-Dec First
activities and events
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IYA2009 Roadmap
'10 Evaluation
Jan Closing Event (Italy) Evaluations and
Follow-up National Reports IYA2009 Secretariat
Final Report CAP2010 South Africa
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www.astronomy2009.org
IYA 2009 Secretariat Hubble European Space Agency
Information Centre Space Telescope-European
Coordinating Facility ESO Garching Munich
Germany Contact Pedro Russo prusso_at_eso.org
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