Projects and activities

Continuously, the IAC launches projects and outreach activities aimed at the educational community and / or the general public to stimulate social interest in the stars, with a gender perspective and integrating disability as much as possible. Among them:

  • Courses, conferences and workshops.
  • Projects with robotic telescopes.
  • Coordination and design of exhibitions.
  • Campaigns for monitoring and public observation of astronomical events.
  • Presence in fairs and weeks of Science and Innovation.
  • Contests.
  • Special events for certain groups (mass media ...)
  • Transversal projects, which combine astronomy with other disciplines and subjects.
  • Poster of the activity "Habla con ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía"
    Talk to Them: Women in Astronomy
    What is it? It is an IAC initiative that aims to make visible the work of women in Astronomy-Astrophysics, while offering girls inspiring models to promote their scientific and technological vocations. It consists of videoconferences with educational centres by women astrophysicists and engineers who work at the IAC and at other institutions
    Nayra
    Rodríguez Eugenio
    In progress
  • Cartel Moda Cósmica
    COSMIC FASHION
    The Event Fashion is and remains a unique phenomenon of humanity. It affects not only our material culture but also our social life. Fashion is not only a manifestation of art, but also helps us to express ourselves. History is important for contemporary designers for many reasons. First, the world and society never remains the same, technology
    María Carmen del
    Puerto Varela
    Tariq
    Shahbaz
    Alfredo Rafael
    Rosenberg González
    Tamara Ruiz
    Laura del Puerto
    Humberto Chávez
    Closed
  • Logo SolarLab
    SolarLab
    SolarLab was an educational project of the IAC aimed at secondary and pre-university colleges in the Canaries. The project had at its disposal three telescopes loaned for a period of one week to educational centres throughout the archipelago. That project also included teacher training for the participating colleges.
    Alfredo Rafael
    Rosenberg González
    Closed
  • NIÉPCE: from the negative to the positive
    NIÉPCE
    It is an initiative of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) via its Unit for Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) with the collaboration of the scientific institutions of the Canary Island Observatories, among these the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), the largest optical-infrared telescope in the world, of the Museum of Science and
    Alfredo Rafael
    Rosenberg González
    Closed
  • Júpiter
    RØMER
    Have you ever thought about light? What's the most striking thing about it? It speed, of course...exceeded only in our imagination. Ready to meet the challenge of measuring it? In this project we aim to relate a simple astronomical observation with a universal constant, c (the speed of light), and tell you about one of the greatest contributions to
    Alfredo Rafael
    Rosenberg González
    Closed
  • Earth nigth
    EELabs
    EELabs (eelabs.eu) is a project financed by the INTERREG V-A MAC 2014-2020 Programme, co-financed by the FEDER (European Regional Development Fund) of the European Union, under contract number MAC2/4.6d/238. Five centres in Macaronesia work in EELabs (IAC, ITER, UPGC, SPEA-Azores, SPEA-Madeira).
    Miquel
    Serra Ricart
    Closed