Training in Astronomy

Office for Young Astronomers

The IAU Office for Young Astronomers (OYA) is a joint project of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (NASL).  OYA is a virtual office, with domicile in NASL, in Oslo, Norway.

The primary mission of OYA is to run the IAU programme on International Schools for Young Astronomers (ISYA) established since 1967. ISYA is IAU’s educational and training programme at university level, intended to broaden the participants’ perspective on astronomy by lectures from an international faculty on selected topics of astronomy, seminars, practical exercises and observations, and exchange of experiences. The schools take place in regions where students have less opportunity to be directly exposed to the full extent of up-to-date astrophysics.

Read more about the IAU Office for Young Astronomers (OYA) here

I-HOW: IAU Hands-On Workshops

The IAU Hands-On Workshops (I-HOW) is an initiative to train young scientists in developing countries in accessing, analysing and using vast amounts of astronomical data for their research projects.

These ‘capacity building’ workshops will raise awareness of scientists in developing countries on the availability of astronomical data from ground-based telescopes and space missions that can be used to solve specific astronomical problems, will provide the seeds to open up and expand research in those countries into new horizons, and will foster international collaboration between young scientists in the developing countries and established staff members in developed ones. 

Read more about the IAU Hands-On Workshops (I-HOW) here