Starlight Bridges, funded by the OAD and implemented in Karpenisi, Greece, explores community astrotourism as a tool for STEAM education, environmental awareness, and sustainable rural development. The project trains educators, women, and youth as “AstroGuides” through astronomy workshops, storytelling, and night-sky activities. By linking astronomy with local culture, mythology, ecology, and dark-sky protection, the project promotes informal STEAM learning and public engagement. Activities include school outreach, astronomy observations, the creation of a Starlight Path, and the Dark Sky Festival of Evrytania.

Biography:

late ACTIVITY IN ORGANISATIONS
2021 - 2027 co-NOC-IAU,1995- now Associate of the National Observatory of Athens
2017-2022 co-chair of the Inter-Commission B7-C1 WG of the IAU
Distinctions
2009 second prize in the Panhellenic competition of the Union of Greek Physicists for Astronomy, with the design of an astronomy board game.,2009 Silver Prize of the European Awards for Lifelong Learning, as a member of the European Design Committee of the European Research Project MINERVA , EU-Hands on Universe,1998 - 2003 From the International Dark Sky Association. With over 50 astronomy projects and astronomy papers. For 2025–2026, she is PI of the OAD-funded STARLIGHT BRIDGES project and also participated in enLIGHTen TTP/OAE.