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Proceedings for the 7th Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education

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This is a collection of summaries from the 7th Shaw-IAU workshop on Astronomy for Education held from 18th-
21st November, 2025 as a virtual event. The workshop was organised by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education.
More details can be found on: https://astro4edu.org/shaw-iau/7th-shaw-iau-workshop/.


The IAU Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) is hosted at Haus der Astronomie (HdA), managed by the Max
Planck Institute for Astronomy. The OAE’s mission is to support and coordinate astronomy education by astronomy
researchers and educators, aimed at primary or secondary schools worldwide. HdA’s hosting of the OAE was made
possible through the support of the German foundations Klaus Tschira Stiftung and Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. The Shaw-IAU
Workshops on Astronomy for Education are funded by the Shaw Prize Foundation.

The OAE is supported by a growing network of OAE Centers and OAE Nodes, collaborating to lead global projects 
developed within the network. The OAE Centers and Nodes are: the OAE Center China–Nanjing, hosted by the
Beijing Planetarium (BJP); the OAE Center Egypt, hosted by the National Research Institute of Astronomy and
Geophysics (NRIAG); the OAE Center India, hosted by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
(IUCAA); the OAE Center Italy, hosted by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF); the OAE Node Republic of
Korea, hosted by the Korean Astronomical Society (KAS); OAE Node France at CY Cergy Paris University hosted by
CY Cergy Paris University; and the OAE Node Nepal, hosted by the Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO).

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