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IAU STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ASTRONOMY DEVELOPMENT

http://www.iau.org/education/strategic_plan/ Draft: Final version within next month. IAU STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ASTRONOMY DEVELOPMENT. Long-term vision Goals for 2010 – 2020 Strategy Integrated strategic phased approach Increase regional involvement (bottom-up)

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IAU STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ASTRONOMY DEVELOPMENT

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  1. http://www.iau.org/education/strategic_plan/ Draft: Final version within next month IAU STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ASTRONOMY DEVELOPMENT • Long-term vision • Goals for 2010 – 2020 • Strategy • Integrated strategic phased approach • Increase regional involvement (bottom-up) • Enlarge number of active volunteers • Initiate new types of activity • Build on IYA momentum and cornerstones • Advance UN Millennium Goals • Exploit new tools and opportunities • Create small “Global Astronomy for Development Office” • Implementation roadmap • Fundraising possibilities

  2. ACTIONS FOR YOU!! • Discuss the plan with the directors of your institutes and your universities • Participation in long-term institute twinning? • Fund staff to lecture in developing countries • Interest in becoming regional node? • Interest in hosting the Global Astronomy for Development Office? • shared cost but prestigious • Go and discuss the plan with your governments • e.g. Departments of international development? If useful, ask IAU to help • Lookout for funding opportunities and approach IAU if we can help • International and national foundations • Multinational companies operating in developing countries • Bilateral agreements between governments • International and regional development agencies • Credible philanthropists • Future large projects: 1% for global development in astronomy • Have strong arguments ready to use

  3. TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS

  4. CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY SOUTHERN AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE SUTHERLAND, SOUTH AFRICA GIANT METREWAVE RADIO TELESCOPE PUNE, INDIA LINKING CONTINENTS WITH VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETERS Shanghai, China Parkes, Australia Kashima, Japan

  5. TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

  6. ASTRONOMY AS SCIENCE • Inexpensive laboratories for studying laws of physics under extreme conditions: • Largest energies (~ 1061 erg). • Largest densities (~1018 kg/m3). • Most tenuous vacuum • Largest sizes (> 10 million light years) • Frontier science do-able from anywhere in world

  7. TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS CULTURE AND SOCIETY SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

  8. TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS CULTURE AND SOCIETY SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

  9. HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE Everythingcame out of the Big Bang!!

  10. TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS CULTURE AND SOCIETY SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

  11. WHY ASTRONOMY? TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS CULTURE AND SOCIETY SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

  12. RATIONALE OF SOUTH AFRICA FOR ASTRONOMY Culture • 1996 DACST white paper on role of pure science within the new democracy: • “It is important to maintain a basic competence in ‘flagship’ sciences such as physics and astronomy for cultural reasons. Not to offer them would be to take a negative view of our future – the view that we are a second-class nation, chained forever to the treadmill of feeding and clothing ourselves” INSPIRATION “Exploring the Universe for the benefit of humankind” Technology Science

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