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.
  • Teleastronomy
    Teleastronomy
    Consists in direct transmission of astronomers at work on the IAC80 Telescope of the Observatorio del Teide (OT) to the I.E.S. seminar room or to museums. Transmission last for about one-and-a-half hours and commence half an hour after sunset at the OT. During the transmission, astronomers describe their activities and answer questions from the
    Alfredo Rafael
    Rosenberg González
  • Rafael Rebolo, Alicia Vanoostende y Miguel Ángel Morcuende con Juan Antonio Belmonte, uno de los comisarios de la exposición "Luces del Universo".
    Luces del Universo” (30º Aniversario) en La Palma
    The director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Rafael Rebolo, the Minister of Tourism of the Cabildo Insular de La Palma, Alicia Vanoostende, and the director of the General State Administration of the Island, Miguel Angel Morcuende, inaugurated on Tuesday, September 15, in Santa Cruz de La Palma, the interactive exhibition "Lights
    MARIA CARMEN PUERTO VARELA