Network for Astronomy School Education

Network for Astronomy School Education is an International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group that works on Training Teachers for primary and secondary schools.
In 2007, professor George K. Miley, IAU vice-president, invited Rosa M. Ros to begin exploring the idea of setting up an astronomy program to give primary and secondary school teachers a better preparation in this area of knowledge. The birth of NASE Group occurred when Rosa Maria Ros and Alexandre Costa were sent by UNESCO and IAU to give two courses in Peru and Ecuador in July 2009. Shortly after NASE was officially created in August 2009 during IAU's General Assembly at Rio de Janeiro. From there on more than 80 courses have been presented worldwide.
The topics of "the basic NASE course" are:

NASE classes were designed for developing countries where teachers don't have many financial resources. NASE Working Group members go to these countries for the first time to prepare a local task group that will disseminate astronomy knowledge and inexpensive didactic materials. The main goal is precisely to set up in each country a local group of NASE members who carry on teaching the essential NASE course every year and to create new didactic inexpensive experiments, demonstrations and astronomical instruments.
This has allowed to build a very large repository of educational materials for astronomy with PowerPoint Presentations], animations, articles and lectures, photos, games, simulations websites, interactive programs and videos.

NASE Courses

NASE has now given more than seventy courses mainly in South America, Africa and Asia.

Meeting	Venue	Dates
1	Lima	17–20 July 2009
2	Salinas	18–21 July 2009
3	Barranquilla	6–9 July 2010
4	Managua	12–15 July 2010
5	Lima	17–20 July 2010
6	Rosario	12–15 October 2010
7	Cañada de Gómez	13–15 October 2010
8	Venado Tuerto	26–28 May 2011
9	Rafaela	22–25 June 2011
10	Tegucigalpa	11–14 July 2011
11	Managua	11–14 July 2011
12	Panama City	18–22 July 2011
13	Barranquilla	21–24 July 2011
14	Asunción	27–30 July 2011
15	Reconquista	2–5 November 2011
16	Lima	18–21 January 2012
17	Managua	2–6 July 2012
18	Tegucigalpa	9–12 July 2012
19	Guatemala City	10–13 July 2012
20	Quito	23–26 October 2012
21	La Paz	29 October – 1 November 2012
22	Barranquilla	14–16 November 2012
23	Santa Fe	19–21 November 2012
24	Asunción	21–24 November 2012
25	Montevideo	26–29 November 2012
26	Accra	8–11 January 2013
27	Cañada de Gómez	12–15 March 2013
28	Mendoza	18–20 March 2013
29	Cochabamba	16–18 July 2013
30	Uberlandia	29 July – 1 August 2013
31	Foz do Iguaçu	5–8 August 2013
32	Bauru	12–15 August 2013
33	Managua	5–7 August 2013
34	Beijing	19–21 August 2013
35	Medellín	2–5 September 2013
36	Bogotá	2–5 September 2013
37	Quito	23–26 September 2013
38	Barranquilla	8–10 October 2013
39	Nairobi	24–26 October 2013
40	Tegucigalpa	4–7 November 2013
41	Guatemala City	11–13 November 2013
42	San Luis Potosí	19–22 November 2013
43	Montevideo	2–5 December 2013
44	Huancayo	17–20 March 2014
45	Ica	24–27 March 2014
46	Mendoza	24–26 April 2014
47	Cluj-Napoca	24–26 April 2014
48	Havana	9–12 June 2014
49	Bogotá	16–19 June 2014
50	Quito	16–19 June 2014
51	Medellín	25–28 June 2014
52	Accra	28–31 July 2014
53	Asunción	30 July – 1 August 2014
54	Barranquilla	31 July – 1 August 2014
55	Salta	12–14 August 2014
56	Tegucigalpa	23–24 October 2014
57	Cochabamba	27–28 October 2014
58	Guatemala	3–5 November 2014
59	Oruro	4–7 November 2014
60	Managua	10–12 December 2014
61	Lima	9–13 February 2015
62	Barranquilla	19–21 March 2015
63	San Miguel de Tucumán	25–27 March 2015
64	Cuenca	25–27 March 2015
65	Jujuy	11–13 May 2015
66	Medellín	24–27 June 2015
67	Guatemala	25–27 June 2015
68	Managua	13–15 July 2015
69	Honolulu	1–2 August 2015
70	Tegucigalpa	24–27 August 2015
71	Bogotá	5–7 October 2015
72	Bucaramanga	11–14 October 2015

Partnership courses

NASE has also cooperated with other associations to promote teacher training on astronomy, namely with UNESCO and the European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE.

Meeting	Venue	Dates	Partners
1	Madrid	26 Nov – 1 Dec 2009	European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE and Spanish National Research Council - CSIC.
2	Varna	1–5 September 2010	European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE and Varna Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium.
3	Ouagadougou	14–15 December 2010	TAD and Université de Ouagadougou.
4	Cape Town	20 August 2011	OAD and South African Astronomical Observatory
5	Beijing	25 August 2012	Beijing Planetarium and IAU
6	Enontekiö	28–30 December 2013	European Association for Astronomy Education - EAAE, LUMA and Helsinki University
7	San Luis Potosí	23 November 2013	Escuela de Estudios Superiores del Magisterio Potosino
8	London	20–24 July 2015	European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE, Royal Astronomical Society and Greenwich Observatory