IAU øger samarbejde mellem professionelle og amatørastronomer

[Christina ToldboDeltager Asteroid]

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The IAU Strategic Plan 2020-2030 indicates a desire for the IAU to foster stronger relations between the large community of amateur astronomers and the professional astronomers who are members of the IAU. Accordingly, the IAU Executive Committee recently formed a Working Group for Pro-Am Relations. These Pro-Am initiatives will be co-organized with the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach who has a strong amateur astronomers’ representation within its central network of representatives, the IAU National Outreach Coordinators (NOCs), and associate communities.

The EC WG sees several mutual benefits for both groups of astronomers by having stronger pro-am relations especially in terms of research collaborations involving amateur astronomers working with IAU members and joint outreach and public engagement initiatives. The Pro-Am WG is also planning biennial meetings on best practices, to highlight the many successful projects undertaken by amateur astronomers at the research and outreach level and it will build on the previous successful meeting in Brussels held in April 2019.

The goal of our IAU workgroup is to provide knowledge and resources to promote the inclusion practices in astronomy outreach. It is simpler than people may think, and there are a “starter kit” and a community to help! The starting point can be this short introductory video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18lOR08u-o2Sz6Ud_NHb68dnYP73gwK_v/view?usp=sharing

There are several options to participate:
Browse and access available resources on our web site: iau-oao.nao.ac.jp/iau-inclusion/inclusive-outreach-2/
Stay informed about what we do by following the IAU Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Astro4Inclusion
Be part of the community, ask questions, and find help on our “IAU Inclusive Outreach Community” Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/iauinclusiveoutreach
Share any inclusive resources (tools, activities’) that you developed and want to share with the community by using this form: https://tinyurl.com/476khr5e
Become an active contributor to our workgroup and commit part of your time to help us. Please fill in this simple form to apply: https://tinyurl.com/8bap4yxw

I would appreciate if you could consider participating, and most importantly help spread the word across the amateur astronomers community in your country. Feel free to forward this email as appropriate.

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