Mission and
Goals
- Facilitate effective partnerships
for research and education in space science
- Support improvement of informal
space and earth science education
- Support the development of a network
for space science and technology education and research. This will include
a database enabling collaborations among members of the Ethiopian
space science community and their counterparts elsewhere
- Pave the way for the establishment
of the Ethiopian Educational, Scientific and Cultural Society
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If you wish to participate in the activities of Ethiopia Space
Science Working or provide comments regarding the shape and structure
Space Science Education and Research at in Ethiopia contact Dr
Abebe Kebede (gutaye @ncat.edu
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Ethiopian Forum for Space and Earth Science
Currently there exists the Ethiopian Space Society that
caters to the faculty members, students and professionals in the field.
The members of the society represent a reasonable crossection of faculty,
space professionals and members of institutions of higer learning.
The Ethiopian Space Working Group is a logical extention
of this activity. The functions of the group will include egnagement
professional socieites and representatives of federal agencies to disucss
effective ways to produce the environment where space science will take
root.
Ethiopian
Astronomical Society
THE ETHIOPIAN SPACE SCIENCE SOCIETY
The Ethiopian Space Science Society (ESSS) was established
on 18 June 2004 under the 1960 Ethiopian Civil Code, Article 404 and on Associations
Registration, Legal Notice No. 321/1966. The main objective of the Society
is the dissemination of basic space science education in Ethiopian schools
and the development of scientific culture in the public sector that comes
along with it. ESSS, whose head office is in Addis Ababa, has a large number
of registered members some of whom go to the extent of donating large sums
of money and small backyard telescopes. The one you see in the picture below
is one of the small telescopes recently acquired by the society from one of
its members. Enthusiastic graduate students are in the process of putting
its parts together for a night time viewing session.
Members of the Ethiopian Space Science Society
The ESSS also supports local space science studies and related
technological progress by way of monetary aid and prizes. Just recently the
society has donated a 40 square kilometre piece of land to Addis Ababa University
(AAU) for the construction of the dome for the 0.45 metre fully automated
telescope it hopes to get from the Japanese Government. The application from
the Astrophysics group at AAU for the small reflector under the Japanese Cultural
Aid Program is pending.
Legesse W Kebede
legessek@yahoo.com
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