This is a List of Astronomy Outreach Resources in Europe originally started as an initiative within the framework of the

Astronet Astronet is a consortium which gather European funding agencies in order to establish a comprehensive long-term planning for the development of European astronomy. The consortium started on September 1, 2005. Participants *Centre national de ...

EU FP7 project.

Scientific Institutions, Observatories, and National Scientific Societies

Scientific institutions and Observatories

List of astronomical observatories This is a list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and location. The list also includes a final year of operation for many observatories that are no longer in ...

(not only outreach)
IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach
* European Southern Observatory (ESO)
ESO Science Outreach Network
(ESON) * European Space Agency (ESA)
CERN outreach
*

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is an astrophysical research institute located in the Canary Islands, Spain. It was founded in 1975 at the University of La Laguna. It operates two astronomical observatories in the Canary Islands: ...

(IAC, Spain) *

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía The Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia ( es, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA-CSIC) is a research institute funded by the High Council of Scientific Research of the Spanish government Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científ ...

(IAA-CSIC, Spain) * Spanish National Observatory
Centre of AstroBiology
(CAB-CSIC, Spain) *

University of La Rioja The University of La Rioja (UR) is a public institution of higher education based in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. Inaugurated during 1992-1993 from various existing schools and colleges, it currently teaches Grades 19 adapted to the European Higher ...

(Spain) *

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) ( ga, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a statutory independent research institute in Ireland. It was established in 1940 on the initiative of the Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, in Dub ...

(Ireland)
Queen Mary Astronomical Observatory
(UK)
University of Oxford Dept of Physics
(UK)

(UK)
University of Glasgow A&A group
(UK) * Observatoire de Paris * Observatoire de Bordeaux *

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique (IRAM) is an international research institute and Europe's leading center for radio astronomy at millimeter wavelengths. Its mission is to explore the universe, study its origins and its evolution with two ...

(IRAM)
GLObal Robotic-telescopes Intelligent Array
(GLORIA Project)
EU-HOU network of demonstration radio telescopes

Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)

Educational resources of INAF (work in progress)
* Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (Italy) * Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden)

National Astronomical Societies

List of astronomical societies A list of notable groups devoted to promoting astronomy research and education. Africa * African Astronomical Society South Africa *Astronomical Society of Southern Africa Asia China * Chinese Astronomical Society India * Akash Mitra Mandal *A ...

AstroWeb

Sociedad Española de Astronomía
(SEA) *

Royal Astronomical Society (Whatever shines should be observed) , predecessor = , successor = , formation = , founder = , extinction = , merger = , merged = , type = NG ...

(UK)
Swedish Astronomical Society
(Sweden)

Science Museums and Planetaria

* International Planetarium Society
Haus der Astronomie Heidelberg
*

CosmoCaixa Barcelona CosmoCaixa Barcelona () is a science museum located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Formerly known as the Science Museum of Barcelona, it closed for renovations in 1998 and reopened in 2004 under its current name. The museum features a variety ...

(Spain)
The Observatory (Greenwich) Science Centre
(UK)
The Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre
(UK)
NUI Galway Centre for Astronomy
(UK)
University of Cambridge Centre for Astronomy
(UK) * Herschel Museum of Astronomy (UK) *

National Museums Scotland National Museums Scotland (NMS; gd, Taighean-tasgaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government. It runs the national museums of Scotland. NMS is one of the country's National Collections ...

(UK) *

Deutsches Museum The Deutsches Museum (''German Museum'', officially (English: ''German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology'')) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from ...

(Germany)
Cité de l’Espace Toulouse

Tycho Brahe Planetarium
(Denmark)

Projects

* Hands on Universe (EU-HoU) * EU

Universe Awareness Universe Awareness or (UNAWE) is an international programme that aim to expose very young children in under-privileged environments to astronomy. History Inception In 2004, Leiden University professor George K. Miley first began exploring the id ...

(UNAWE) * Europlanet
EuroVO AIDA project

Creative Space
(UK)

Amateur astronomy groups

(2007)
List of Amateur astronomy groups in Spain

Magazines, publications, and resources on the web

Publications

* The

ESO Messenger The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is an intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 member states for ground-based ast ...

Revista AstronomíA
(Spain) *

Astronomy Now ''Astronomy Now'' is a monthly British magazine on astronomy and space. According to the Royal Astronomical Society, ''Astronomy Now'' is the "principal amateur astronomy magazine in Britain" with a reputed circulation of 24,000. The magazine ...

(UK)
Astronomie Magazine
(France)
Populär Astronomi
(Sweden)
TUIMP
"The Universe In My Pocket", free astronomy booklets in many languages

Blogs, social networks, and resources on the web

Space and Astronomy websites

UNAWE ''Space Scoop''

Henrietta Leawitt
(videos, Spanish)
SpaceWeather

Blogs in Spanish

Radioastronomy from Home

Beginners Guide to Astronomy

Campaigns

* Globe at night

Commercial companies, astronomical lodging, star parties

Astronomy events calendar

Turismo estelar
(Spain)
European AstroFest 2015
(UK)

(Spain)

Other resources

IAU network of contact points for outreach

IAU directory

IAU “Why is Astronomy important?”

Astronomy resources in Europe

Map of astronomical resources in project Radionet FP7

References

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