Published: 10th February 2025 14:02 (UTC)

We are pleased to announce the publication of the proceedings of the 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education!

As always, the proceedings offer summaries of all contributions and include links to recorded talks on the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education’s YouTube channel, as well as PDFs of the posters. This fully online workshop brought together around 740 participants from 90 countries and was made possible by generous funding from the Shaw Prize Foundation.

In addition to our three core topics—Astronomy Education in Practice, Astronomy Education Research, and Teaching Methods and Tools—this year’s workshop featured two special focus topics:

• Evaluation in Education – A special session dedicated to exploring effective assessment techniques.
• The First Years of JWST – A scientific session highlighting the telescope’s remarkable achievements since its launch.

The full proceedings are now available here. We invite you to explore them and discover the insights shared by the global astronomy education community.

More information:

The IAU is the international astronomical organisation that brings together more than 12 000 active professional astronomers from more than 100 countries worldwide. Its mission is to promote and safeguard astronomy in all its aspects, including research, communication, education and development, through international cooperation. The IAU also serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and the surface features on them. Founded in 1919, the IAU is the world's largest professional body for astronomers.

The IAU Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) is hosted at Haus der Astronomie (HdA), managed by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. The OAE’s mission is to support and coordinate astronomy education by astronomy researchers and educators, aimed at primary or secondary schools worldwide. HdA’s hosting the OAE was made possible through the support of the German foundations Klaus Tschira Stiftung and Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. The Shaw-IAU Workshops on Astronomy for Education are funded by the Shaw Prize Foundation.

The OAE is supported by a growing network of OAE Centers and OAE Nodes, collaborating to lead global projects developed within the network. The OAE Centers and Nodes are: the OAE Center China–Nanjing, hosted by the Beijing Planetarium (BJP); the OAE Center Egypt, hosted by the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG); the OAE Center India, hosted by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA); the OAE Center Italy, hosted by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF); the OAE Node Republic of Korea, hosted by the Korean Astronomical Society (KAS); OAE Node France at CY Cergy Paris University hosted by CY Cergy Paris University; and the OAE Node Nepal, hosted by the Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO).

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