Nordita Supports GalileoMobile Project

by Hans Mühlen 8 Apr 2013 Outreach
Published in the "From the Institute" section of Nordita News issue 1, 2013

GalileoMobile is an itinerant non-profit educational project that aims to bring astronomy to everyone, especially children and young people in places that have had little access or no contact at all with science education. The goal of the project is to promote awareness and interest in learning about the Universe, and through projects like this, one can convey the idea to all of us who live "under the same sky" that science can be fascinating if can share it and learn it in a fun way.

As mentioned on the homepage of UNAWE (EU Universe Awareness Project), Nordita supports this important initiative both financially and by way of the participation of Fabio Del Sordo, onetime PhD student at Nordita, in the first GalileoMobile trip to the Andean Altiplano in 2009. In the words of the director of Nordita, Professor Lárus Thorlacius,

"Nordita supports a number of outreach activities and we are happy to assist the GalileoMobile project to stimulate young minds and bring the wonders of astronomy to a new generation".

This spring Fabio will take part in a GalileoMobile tour in Nepal.