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<span style="font-size:11.25pt; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">Please see the below opportunity to become involved in the International Astronomical Union's Astronomy education program, targeting astronomy educators - including primary
and secondary school teachers and those in education research:</span></div>
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<span lang="aa" style="margin:0px; font-size:15px; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The IAU has recently founded its Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE), which aims to support and coordinate astronomy education by astronomy researchers
and educators, aimed at primary or secondary schools worldwide, as well as foster the use of astronomy as a stimulus for teaching and science education in general. The OAE is a joint project of the IAU and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg,
Germany. The OAE is hosted by Haus der Astronomie (HdA), an astronomy education and outreach center also based in Heidelberg, Germany. More information on the OAE can be found on our preliminary website [</span><span lang="aa" style="margin:0px; font-size:15px; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/NJ3wCXLW2mUxQjVQh6ds1a?domain=astro4edu.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">http://astro4edu.org</span></a></span><span lang="aa" style="margin:0px; font-size:15px; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">].<br>
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The OAE is tasked by the IAU with creating a worldwide network of National Astronomy Education Coordinators (NAECs), similar to the network of National Outreach Coordinators (NOCs) of the IAU Office of Astronomy Outreach. The NAECs are to be nominated by the
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<span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:15px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">The NAEC team should consist of up to five experts in astronomy education. If possible, experts on both primary and secondary education, as well as
on astronomy education research, should be included. NAEC teams should be diverse both in terms of gender as well as in terms of your country’s geographic regions, ethnicities and languages, where applicable.</span><br style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:15px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:15px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Each NAEC team is meant to help the OAE document and analyze how astronomy is used in teaching in its country, identify existing relevant actions,
organize professional development for teachers and develop readily accessible and high-quality educational material tailored to the specific needs of the country, and for specific groups and school levels.</span><br style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:15px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:15px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Each NAEC team will be the interface between the OAE and the astronomy education community in its country, particularly creating a link from the IAU
to teachers interested in astronomy and in using astronomy as a tool for teaching science in primary and secondary school. NAEC team members should be chosen so that, between them, they should be thoroughly familiar with all aspects of astronomy education
in their country, and should be in touch with all major astronomy education stakeholders, and able to disseminate information from the OAE to their country’s astronomy education community.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:15px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><u>If you would like to nominate for the Australian NAEC team, please send a brief 1-2 paragraph EoI
</u>stating your experience in astronomy education, and your reasons for interest in the committee. </span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:15px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><b>Nominations should be sent to
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<span> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="mailto:icsu@science.org.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">icsu@science.org.au</a></span>
by 28 August 2020</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:15px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">The NAEC team will then be selected by the National Committee for Astronomy.</span></div>
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