The efforts for spreading the Street Spectra project are more visible than ever. Thanks to the collaboration of the astronomy association “Astroguada” 8 schools have signed up to involve their students on the project. They gave us the opportunity of reaching all the students from ages 12 to 18. Each group got two different sessions…
The Science Week in Madrid is one of Europe’s most important scientific events. Its main objective is to make science and technology more accessible to the general public. It takes place over two weeks, and includes over 500 activities, workshops, exhibitions, conferences and guided tours. Around 200 organisations take part in this informative festival, ranging…
One of the Starlight Foundation “Astronomical Monitors and Guides” training courses took place at Sigüenza starting at June the 28th. The Medieval City of Sigüenza has become one of the main tourist destinations in Castilla la Mancha. It was declared a Historic-Artistic Site in 1964. This small city has beautiful small streets that take us…
The Festival for Art, Technology and Society “Ars Electronica” is an internationally platform for digital art and media culture that enjoys a worldwide reputation. This year’s edition took place from September the 9th to the 13th, and for the first time, it happened not only in Linz, but at 120 locations around the globe. 6…
ºCitizen science engage students in meaningful science research that addresses real world issues and leads to scientific advancement. We would like to invite school students to contribute to one particular project. We intend to generate awareness about the problem of light pollution in general, and the consequences of the global switch out of the older…
Citizen science is a growing field that is generating new knowledge through the collaboration of citizens in scientific research. As this field expands it has started showing that it can be integrated into education in both formal and informal learning environments. In particular, the integration into education systems is creating new synergies as students acquire…
We have recently notice plenty of entries from Sevilla, thanks to José María Fernández Andújar.
During the last ActiON plenary meeting on Berlin last February the 20th we had the opportunity to update our colleagues on the new features we have developed for Street Spectra.
We got the opportunity of sharing all we have learn with the new six additional citizen science and pollution related projects that have recently joined ActiON.
Street spectra has been presented at II Congreso ProAm de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía holded at december 6. 8 in Huesca, Spain.
Professor Jaime Zamorano gave a talk for the Association of Amateur Astronomers from the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ASAAF)
People from ASAAF share astronomy and science as hobbies and they organize astro-camping, observations and talks.
Our team joined the second edition of “Encontro da Noite” to debate light pollution and the preservation of darkness.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824603.
jzamorano@fis.ucm.es
