November has been a busy month for StAnD, with two more multiplier events taking place, bringing this exciting project to more teachers in different parts of Europe.
The INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino team members took the Erasmus+ project StAnD to Teramo in the Abruzzo region of Italy on 8 November. Held during the PRISMA Days 2025, more than 30 participants, including teachers, professors, researchers, and students, got the chance to find out more about the project and its activities. The participants took active part in the two workshops developed by INAF, namely the Meteor Camera Kit Activity, presented by Daniele Gardiol and Chiara Lamberti, and the PASCAL Laboratory, presented by Dario Barghini. Arianna Arisio, graduate student in translation at the University of Turin, presented the StAnD Toolkit, which she had translated into Italian in order to allow teachers to implement the proposed activities in their classrooms.
On the same day many miles away, COSPAR had organised another multiplier event in Nicosia, Cyprus. As part of COSPAR’s Public Outreach and Education Weekend at the end of the 6th COSPAR Symposium, this workshop attracted more than 15 teachers and researchers from Cyprus, Poland, Russia and Bulgaria. Participants were welcomed by COSPAR President Pascale Ehrenfreund, and enjoyed the presentation of COSPAR’s education initiative by the Chair of the COSPAR Panel on Education, Rosa Doran (NUCLIO). Planetary Defence was made real in a presentation by Carlos Santos (NUCLIO), showing how this topic can be used in the classroom.
And then Juan Ángel Vaquerizo Gallego, from ESA, demonstrated how to use the StAnD micrometeorite kit. Participants examined examples of meteorites and also had a chance to search for their own micrometeorites in the immediate vicinity outside the venue. This hands-on activity fully engaged all the participants.
