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Event Let's Embrace Space (Budapest, 12-13 May 2011)

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List of Soteria-related outreach activities

Here all partners can list their outreach activities towards the general public and the schools. Please provide a one line explanation of what it is and the link. Please follow the structure by partner:

KU Leuven

  • School Visits and Week of Science, an event sponsored by the Government. Lectures and experiments to high school kids on space weather and plasma physics:

http://www.wetenschapsweek.be/ (in dutch)

  • Popular lecture on Complex (dusty) Plasmas: A Challenging Research Area // Participating researcher: Zahida Ehsan // Category: Research Officer at GC University Lahore, Pakistan // Place: Scholl of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Pakistan // Dates: October 29, 2009.// Target audience: Faculty and Students from science departments
  • Seminar // Participant: S. Poedts // Title: "Over de zon en het ruimteweer!" // 19/09/2009, for WINA Class 1984 (25 yrs reunion), Leuven, Belgium.
  • Lecture // Participant: S. Poedts // Title: "Fluid dynamics" // talk during visit of a group science students at the CPA, Leuven, March 16, 2010.
  • Seminar // Participant: S. Poedts // Title: "Ruimteweer!" // 23/03/2010, seminar for the 'Universiteit Derde Leeftijd Leuven vzw (UDLL)', Leuven, Belgium.
  • Popular paper // Participant: S. Poedts // Title: "De zon: steen van Rosetta voor astrofysica!" // KARAKTER, Tijdschrift van Wetenschap, Academische Stichting Leuven, 28, 6-8 (2009).
  • Seminar // Participant: C. Jacobs // Title: "Ruimteweer" // 04/2010, seminar for student organisation "De Leidse fles" (Leiden, The Netherlands), Leuven, Belgium.
  • Lecture // Participant: K. Bonte // Title: "Hough transform: een voorbeeld van toegepaste wiskunde achter de ruimteweersvoorspellingen". (English: "Hough Transform: an example of applied mathematics behind Space Weather forecasting") // Talk during visit of Highschool teachers at the Katholic University of Leuven (KUL). Collaboration in the educational PROBA2-project, a co-operation between the KUL and the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) // Place and Date: Leuven, Belgium, May 5, 2010.

UNIGRAZ

  • The University for Children (July): Each year in summer talks on solar physics (Space Weather) and astrophysics are given for pupils to create their curiosity for science

http://www.kinderunigraz.at/ (in German)

  • Open Door Day (April 2009/2010): Astronomy Event for the public; Talks on Space Weather and STEREO

PMOD-WRC

KO

Outreach programs directly related to SOTERIA:

2009:

  • 16 groups (350 persons) visited the Debrecen Observatory. A.Ludmány gave them introduction to the solar and solar-terrestrial physics with lots of images and video projections and with main emphasis on our recent SOTERIA involvement.
  • The traditional Debrecen Week of Physics was devoted to Astronomy, A. Ludmány delivered a talk about "Rythms in solar activity" to about 200 people.
  • Talk about the SOTERIA program at the Hungarian Seminar of Ionosphere and Magnetosphere (A.Ludmány), Budapest.
  • Talk about Debrecen efforts and SOTERIA at the conference "Space-astrophysics in Hungary" Budapest.


2010:

  • Two popular talks for interested people delivered by J.Muraközy and A.Ludmány in Debrecen.
  • Talk about the Debrecen programs with emphasis on SOTERIA to university students (A.Ludmány).
  • Several short interviews with J.Muraközy and A.Ludmány in radio and TV programs.

Outreach events with no direct connections to SOTERIA:

2009: A series of programs in the Hungarian Radio entitled "Music and Astronomy" partly devoted to space events in music with co-editorship of A.Ludmány.


CNRS

  • French science week (November 2009) : open doors at the LPC2E, with various exhibits on the Sun and on space weather. A stratospheric balloon with a payload designed and built by high school children (lycée Voltaire in Orléans) was launched. The probes worked, but the payload was never recovered...
  • Public lectures : "Quand les amtosphères solaires et stellaires se fâchent..." (When solar and stellar atmospheres get angry), by Matthieu Kretzschmar. "All-public" conference given at the Museum of Orléans (France) the 17 November 2009. Several public lectures on the impact of solar activity on climate by T. Dudok de Wit : high school (2010), French space festival (Explor'Espace, November 2009), French astrophysics week (June 2010).
  • Planeterrella : The Planeterrella is an Aurora simulator that allows to picture in a very dramatic way the relationships between the Sun and the Earth upper atmosphere. It fully falls inside the SOTERIA goals. Since the start of SOTERIA, it has been on demo at least four times a month. A copy has been made at the Toulouse Observatory and at the Meudon-Paris Observatory. A copy is under way in the biggest science museum in France (Palais de la Découverte, Paris). Contacts have been taken to build one in Bern (Switzerland) and the aggrement has University of Leicester (UK). A web site both in French and English has been achieved with the SOTERIA logo in the “partner” page (http://planeterrella.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr). It has been shown on the second TV channel in France (“fabuleuse experience”, October 9th and Dec. 31th, 2009) and will be shown longer in the second German TV channel in 2010. The planeterrella will receive an international prize in Sept. 2010 (http://www.europlanet-eu.org/demo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&Itemid=1 <http://www.europlanet-eu.org/demo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&Itemid=1> )
  • Co-organisation of the European Day of the Sun (June 2010). From the SOTERIA goals, there was the idea to set up some international event around the Sun. This is under way now and will be the “International Sun festival”. The leadership is shared between ESTEC (J.P. Lebreton), SWWT (N. Crosby), SOTERIA (D. Berghmans and J. Lilensten) and COST ES803 (V. Zigman). The first issue was planned in June / july 2010, taking advantage of the solar eclipse (11th of July). However, the final game of the football world championship killed litteraly all kind of initiative. Nevertheless, 10 countries declared their interrest and several initiatives took place throughout Europe. In France, they were done in in partnership with the French agency for the development of scientific and technical culture (CCSTI Centre Sciences - http://www.centre-sciences.org/Evenements/FeteEuropeenneduSoleil).
  • Opera de l’Univers: This project is directly linked to the SOTERIA goals. In the MoU, we planned to make a planetarium show on the Sun. However, 2 years before, the Lyon Planetarium had already made such a show. Contacts had been taken with them to use their experience for a more ambitious project. The problem is that there is no planetarium in the southeast quarter of France. The “Opera de l’Univers” will compensate this lack. This building will include a numerical planetarium but also demonstrations of experiments on all the sciences developed at the Grenoble Observatory: Geology, glaciology, climate, seismic and so on. A big city of the suburb of Grenoble (Pont de Claix) is leading the project while 2 researchers from the Grenoble Observatory are at the origin of the scientific project and have a mandate from the university and CNRS to follow it until completion. SOTERIA is present from the beginning of the project through J. Lilensten.

ROB

  • News items (http://sidc.be/news/ and educational pages on the SIDC website (http://sidc.be) with explanations on space weather forecasting and links to related webpages.
  • In collaboration with the Vliebergh-Senciecentrum (VSC) at the KUL, we started a PROBA2 and Space Weather outreach project. This project is meant for high school teachers and encourages them to include space weather related topics and PROBA2 data in their mathematics, physics and geography lectures. On March 24 and May 5, 2010, interested teachers were invited to attend lectures given by P. Vanlommel and D. Berghmans at the KUL to introduce them to these topics. They also received a booklet with information on space weather and PROBA2 to prepare their lessons, which will be given during the next school year. We plan visits to the participating high school to give lectures there also.
  • The Sixth European Space Weather Week took place in Brugge, Belgium, from Monday 16th November to Friday 20th November 2009. The ROB/Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE) organized this meeting jointly with the ESA, the SWWT and the COST ES0803 communities. The ROB and the STCE did the local organization. Part of the program was the debate ‘Space Weather and the Earth’s Climate-What are the influences & the effect of an unusually deep solar minimum.’ The debate was open to the press, the public and the scientific community.
  • publications in popular magazines: Science Connection, Guidestar (http://www.astro-event-group.be/), De Sterrenwachter (May 2010, Urania, "PROBA2, de tweede Belgische satelliet")
  • a large number of public lectures at high schools (Dan Seaton), amateur astronomy clubs (David Berghmans), and universities (Petra Vanlommel)

OBSPARIS

OBSPARIS organized in June 2009 and June 2010 an open house at MEUDON for the solstice day; the main thematics was the Sun and Solar Terrestrial relations. More than 1000 people visited the solar installations, saw living images of the Sun projected by telescopes, discussed with astronomers. Expositions related to Solar physics were presented to the public. Conferences were proposed about Space Weather, SDO, history of Solar Observations. In Autumn, for the "journées nationales du patrimoine", OBSPARIS was opened to the public in September 2009 and 2010. About 8000 people visited PARIS site. Among a large panel of activities related to Astronomy, a conference about the history of Solar Physics was given. Solar installations are regularly visited by young people of primary and secondary schools, generally two times a week, we have the visit of classes guided by a professionnal astronomer. In order to present our observations, a public web site was created at http://solaire.obspm.fr (in french) in order to explain why we observe the Sun and to show latest images of the Sun. A RSS flux http://solaire.obspm.fr/pages/rss/solaire.xml was implemented recently to spread latest images of the Sun among the public.

SRC-PAS

MTA-KFKI-RMKI

DTU

UOulu

  • Organized a series of public seminars on “The Versatile Sun” in Helsinki and Turku in Fall 2008 and in Oulu in early 2009. Presented a lecture "The Exceptional Sun: The long-term activity of the Sun and its climate effects" in Helsinki on 29.10.2008, in Turku on 30.10.2008, and in Oulu on 27.1.2009.
  • Interview to national Kaleva and Aamulehti journals on 18.3.2009 on the recent decreasing activity of the Sun.
  • Interview to national YleX Radio, local Tampereen Yle Radio (Radio of Tampere) and Oulu Radio on 18.3.2009 on the Sun.
  • Interview to Raahen Seutu journal on 12.5.2009 on cosmic rays, solar activity and climate.
  • Participated as an invited panel member in a public Debate on “Space Weather and the Earth's Climate: What are the influences & the effect of an unusually deep solar minimum?” during the ESSW-6 meeting, Brugge, Belgium, 17.11. 2009.
  • Presented a public seminar on “The changing Sun: Is the great maximum of the 20 century over now?” on 3rd December, 2009, in Oulu.
  • Interview for the MOT program of the national TV1 (Yle) on 7.12.2009 on connections of solar activity and climate.
  • Interview for the national Kaleva newspaper on 17.10.2010 on possibilities to forecast solar activity.
  • Invited panel member in a debate on “The Role of the Sun in Climate Change” organized by the Geophysical Society of Finland, Helsinki, 2.12. 2010.

UGOE

In collaboration with Planetarium Hamburg the multimedia presentations "Unser Sonne" was produced in spring 2009. The show was presented at a mobile dome that was installed in Göttingen town hall from April 2 to April 5 as part of the IAY activities. All shows of the mobile dome during that week were booked out. The produced multimedia shows are also presented at Planetarium Hamburg as part of the regular program and on the 10 flatscreens in the Planetarium preview area.

Rendering of the established multimedia shows was performed for various formats, covering all common media types: full dome, flat 16:9, 4:3, laptop and mobile phone platforms. Highest resolution: HDTV.

The great success of the April presentations initiated help initiate a two weeks exhibition "Unser Universum" in a shopping mall at Göttingen. The show was shown again at a mobile dome the full two weeks during September 14-26. A special production was established for this exhibition: "Die Sonne in 3D - Beobachtungen der NASA STEREO-Mission". It was shown at a special location as part of the main exhibition, together with live images from STEREO on 5 HDTV flatscreens.

For both multimedia shows DVDs and blu ray discs were produced, including booklets with informations about the Sun, Earth, STEREO and Space Weather, making credits to the EU and the SOTERIA project. DVD and blu rays are available to the SOTERIA consortium. Various ones have beenn distributed to the Media, schools and prominent visitors and upon special requests. Highest available resolution is HDTV.

Since December 2009, the show "Die Sonne in 3D" has been rendered into various formats and is shown at the Planetarium Hamburg on the flatscreens of the preview area.

Various TV shows featuring the Sun and space weather have been produced in the first half of 2010: "Alles Wissen" (January 21), "Planetopia" (March 21) and "Abenteuer Wissen: Sonnenstürme - Bedrohung aus dem All" (May 19). The DVDs and blu rays played an important role to disseminate the research subjects.

At COSPAR 2010 the "German Science Pavillon" led by the University of Goettingen will feature the English HDTV Version of "The Sun in 3-D - Observations of the NASA STEREO Mission" available now on DVD and blu ray, including an English booklet with a page dedicated to the EU's "Let's embrace space programme", naming the SOTERIA and AFFECTS projects. Special Stereo glasses advertising the EU programme and the AFFECTS and SOTERIA projects have been designed and will be shown at the COSPAR exhibition from July 19-25.

HVAR

NOVELTIS

LPI

IEEA

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