World Space Week Association (WSWA) in EBIAH - Azores

The mission of World Space Week Association (WSWA) is to strengthen the link between space and society through public education, participation, and dialogue on the future of space activity using World Space Week as a focus.

To achieve this mission, the strategy of the Association is to expand UN-declared World Space Week, 4-10 October annually, to efficiently focus global attention on space through widespread events that week and associated media coverage. Specifically, the Association shall:

• Institutionalize World Space Week in the plans of other organizations globally on the largest possible scale;
• Seek media coverage of the resulting celebration;
• Provide participating organizations with coordination and assistance;
• Hold events at a global level.

The long-term goal of the Association is to sufficiently institutionalize UN-declared World Space Week such that it continues to grow throughout the world by itself.

Lecture – Light Pollution in the Azores

In order to mark World Space Week, declared by United Nations General Assembly in 1999, from October 4th to 10th, teachers from the Erasmus Project “Dark of the light” at EBI in Angra do Heroísmo, Hélia Mendonça and Marco Botelho, in collaboration with the Department of Physical and Natural Sciences, decided to invite Professor João Miguel Tavarela Ferreira, professor at the University of the Azores, to give a lecture on Light Pollution in the Azores at the school on October 9th.