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Chronology of the Office of Astronomy for Education
- 12 August 2022 - Big Ideas in Spanish available online
- 2-11 August 2022 - XXXI IAU General Assembly in Busan, Korea
- 4-8 July 2022 - The first STEAM–Med Workshop on Astronomy for Education took place on the island of Lampedusa
- 1 July 2022 - Winners of the Teachers Pilot Programme (TTPP) contacted
- May 2022 - OAE Node France at CY Cergy Paris University founded
- 20 April 2022 - OAE launches an Astrophotography Contest with the deadline set to 12 June 2022
- 15 April 2022 - Bhavesh Rajpoot joins OAE as OAE Intern
- 1 April 2022 - Management Board of the Editorial Board of AstroEDU was formed with Livia Giacomini (editor in chief), Edward Gomez, Giulio Mazzolo (Associate Editor), and Gwen Sanderson (Assistant editor)
- 16 March 2022 - Expo in Dubai the "Let’s Light Up the Skies of the World" event took place in the Italian Pavillion where Markus Poessel took part in a round table
- February 2022 - OAE launches the Teaching Teachers Pilot Programme (TTPP) with the deadline set for 1 July
- November 2021 - New OAE Steering Committee formed consisting of Immo Appenzeller, Coryn Bailer-Jones, Richard de Grijs and Diana Worrall
- 12-15 October 2021 - 3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
- 5 October 2021 - Version 2 of Big Ideas in Astronomy released
- 16-20 September 2021 - OAE Astronomy Glossary sprint
- 1 September 2021 - Tshiamiso Makwela joins OAE as Astronomy Education Researcher
- August 2021 - OAE Center Cyprus and OAE Node Nepal Founded
- August 2021 - Winners of the IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest announced
- 20-22 July 2021 - IAU Offices Family Meeting
- 1 June 2021 - Asmita Bhandare joins OAE as OAE Intern
- 1 June 2021 - Anna Sippel joins OAE as OAE Project Scientist
- 10 May 2021 - The astroEDU portal becomes part of the OAE
- 15 March 2021 - Eduardo Penteado joins OAE as OAE Coordinator
- March 2021 - OAE Center Italy Founded
- 13 January 2021 - OAE launches an Astrophotography Contest with the deadline set to April 15 2021
- 1 December 2020 - Saeed Salimpour joins OAE as Astronomy Education Research Coordinator
- 9 February 2020 - Start of the Astronomy Glossary initiative
- 6-9 October 2020 - 2nd Shaw-IAU Workshop
- 1 June 2020 - Niall Deacon joins OAE as Interim OAE Coordinator
- 1 May 2020 - Juan Carlos Muñoz joins OAE as Interim OAE Coordinator
- 1 April 2020 - Gwen Sanderson joins OAE as OAE Organisational Assistant
- 29 February 2020 - Call for Centers and Nodes - deadline 10 June 2020
- 13 February 2020 - Call for nominating the National Astronomy Education Coordinators goes out to the National Committees for Astronomy or National Member Organisations, with the deadline set to 28 February 2020. Self-nomination is also possible, cf. this page
- 31 January 2020 - Constituting meeting of the OAE Steering Committee, which consists of Teresa Lago, Susana Deustua, Coryn Bailer-Jones and Matthias Bartelmann
- 9 January 2020 - Open positions for OAE advertised: 5 year postdoc in astronomy education research, organisational assistant, 1 year interim coordinator
- 17-19 December 2019 - 1st Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy Education in Paris, dedicated to discussions for the future role and network of the OAE in the community
- 17 December 2019 - OAE hosting agreement signed by IAU and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
- 28 November 2019 - Public announcement by IAU that Haus der Astronomie has been selected to host the OAE
- 30 June 2019 - Deadline for proposals. By this date, the IAU receives 6 completed proposals.
- 28 February 2019 - IAU invites 9 institutions to submit a full proposal to host the OAE
- 31 December 2018 - Deadline for Letters of Intent. By this date, the IAU receives a total of 23 Letters of Intent.
- 31 October 2018 - IAU calls for Letters of Intent to host the Office of Astronomy for Education.