Belgium
From S. Poedts - 10/10/2007
we had a very successful Open Doors weekend in Brussels in the IHY framework with more than 11000 visitors!
The SWEETS bus was a real success and on Sunday there were all day queues of 50 people or more to look through the solar telescope!!
Some pictures can be downloaded here.
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From S. Poedts - 10/05/2007
1) The IHY web page has been updated
2) We have 4 candidates for the IHY Gold CLub. The file of Koeckelenberg is OK.
Three files are being compiled, viz. for Dagniau, Gonze and Dejaiffe.
3) The SWEETS IHY bus will visit Belgium (Ukkel) in the weekend of 6-7 October)
4) A TV documentary will be made about the Sun and Space Weather and the Belgian activities in this domain. The producer is Jos Van Hemelrijck from VRT Television, Belgium, laureate of the Descartes price for Research and Science Communication "for producing “Overleven”, an innovative science TV series which follows the work and personalities of scientists as they solve key scientific enigmas". The documentary will be broad casted in September/October.
5) The Belgian IHY workshop will be integrated in the annual meeting of the Belgian Physical Society and will take place at the end of May 2007.
6) The workshop "Comparing Earth and Venus", was given by Ms. Rosalyn Pertzborn and Dr. Sanjay S. Limaye from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday the 25th of April 2007 from 2 PM to 5 PM at the Planetarium of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue de Bouchout 10, 1020 Brussels.
7) An exhibition is planned to be set up at the Planetarium in two parts. The first part focuses on the Sun and the global climate change (May-September 2007) while the second part will focus on Space Weather and Heliophysical research (September 2007 - March 2008).
8) There will be an IHY desk at the Researcher's night on September 28, 2007 in Brussels.
9) We will organize an Open Door Weekend at the Space Pole in Ukkel (Brussels) in the weekend of 6-7 October 2007 with a big IHY tent containing, among other things, an inflatable planetarium.
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Transmitted by Johan De Keyser - January 29 2007
The website of the autrian coordination is opened: http://gauss.oma.be/ihy2007
From S. Poedts - Received June 1st 2006
- Organization of an exhibition common between France and Switzerland;
- Preparation of the Open Doors day on June 10th 2007 in Leuven (University, Planetarium etc...);
- Preparation of other exhibition to present the science in Belgium.
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