Astronomy and Space Sciences Education in Portugal

Paper number

IAC-05-E1.2.09

Author

Mr. Pedro Russo, Navegar Foundation, Portugal

Year

2005

Abstract

Navegar Foundation was created to manage Centro Multimeios de Espinho – Portugal. From the beginning, one of the foundation’s main areas was, by default, astronomy and space sciences education: its main equippment was a planetarium. The regular exhibition of planetarium shows attracted a large number of schools (the statistics tell us that we now have an average of 20 000 student per year in a city of 30 000 inhabitants, our public is now national and not regional). 
With the ascend of new ideas and equipments new activities came to life: astronomy public library; observatory; student and teacher trainning; content development; astronomy laboratories; production of planetarium shows; public talks, among  others.
The main goal of this communication is to present and describe the events and activities developed by Navegar Foundation in the past five years, give an ideia of the way they evolved and clues regarding our future plans in Astronomy Education.

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