Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica Gruppo Didattica e Divulgazione – POE group

Astronomy and Society INAF Education and Outreach Projects

(MIUR L6/2000 2013-2014)

Caterina Boccato INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova

(on behalf of INAF POE)

Human resources

Full time: 15 units staff + 5 temporary contracts Half time: 85 astronomers/technicians New contractors with project foundings: 6 fellowships

Opportunity: a call from MIUR 2013 L6/2000 Dissemination of scientific culture

• Proposal presented on September 2012: ASTRONOMIA E SOCIETA’, TRA TRADIZIONE E INNOVAZIONE TECNOLOGICA

• Proposal approved on March 2013: Obtained budget 291.302 �€ (maximum allowed budget 300.000 MIUR financing 80%)

• Start: 2 April 2013 • Duration: 18 months • End: 30 September 2014

A: Education activitiy for School •Training for students •Refreshing courses for teachers •Tools: laboratorial activities and professional astronomical instrumentation

B: Outreach activity •Public events in Astronomical observatories, museum, laboratories, observing facilities, public location… •Public national events coordinated all over the Country such the Moonwatch night, The European Reserchers’ Night and other similar C: Multimedia and ICT •National Network of robotic telescopes: Universo in Remoto •Web Platform: Risorse Educative per l’Astronomia Laboratoriale (REAL Educational Resources for Laboratorial Astronomy) •Multimedia products: Astrokids book; educational DVD, videoclip short 3D; app for smartphone

Project Macro-actions

2

EDU.INAF.IT: that’s REAL (v1)!

Astrokids.inaf.it

Iyl2015.inaf.it

CMS

Peer-reviewed educational resources

• Connection with the IAU project

ASTROEDU: a platform for

educators to discover, review,

distribute, improve, and remix

educational astronomy

activities

• Opportunity for collaboration

with IAU Office of Astronomy

for Development (invitation

received)

Italian Remote Network of Educational Telescopes

(IRNET or Universo in Remoto)

INAF sites with telescopes for educational scope: •10 stellar telescopes • 5 solar telescopes • 1 radio antenna • already working2013 • to be converted • Work done during the project(Bologna, Catania, Napoli, Teramo)

IRNET

Astrokids, the book

30 astronomers of 13 different INAF Institutes + 7 external collaborators

Radioastronomy National & International projects

NATIONAL 3D short movie – “How it works: radioastronomy” Summer School “The radio of the cosmos” INTERNATIONAL INAF leads the task "Outreach for the general public"

within the FP7 project RadioNet

Project Status

1. REAL (edu.inaf.it)

• Server on-line • Software infrastructure: Commissioning Phase • Educational resources : Pilot activities selected Material to be uploaded • Peer Review Process: Editorial Board to be appointed

• Public Outreach resources: edu.inaf.it/Astrokids 2. IRNET

• Upgrading of observational facilities: on going • Tests of ready-to-go facilities: on going • Common User Interface for Remote Control: TBD

3. Multimedia

• Previously available resources: shared • New INAF production: Astrokids, book published • Video resources: 3D short on radioastronomy

Questions?

caterina.boccato@inaf.it

edu.inaf.it