C2 – Commission C2 Communicating Astronomy with the Public

Description

IAU Commission C2 is a think/do-tank that convenes the astronomy communication community and seeds initiatives to explore new ways to communicate astronomy with the public.

It works in close collaboration with IAU Office of Astronomy Outreach (OAO) ,Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) and the Office for Astronomy Education (OAE).

Our primary target audience are professional or amateur communicators of astronomy.

While the IAU OAO focuses primarily on engaging the public, IAU C2 focuses primarily on engaging astronomy communicators.

Our primary mission is to advance the profession of astronomy communication and support professionals. Our mission has several directions:

Formalisation To endorse standards, best practices and requirements for public communication.
Professionalisation To encourage and enable a much larger fraction of the astronomical community to take an active role in explaining what we do (and why) to our fellow citizens.
Recognition Act as an international, impartial coordinating entity that furthers the recognition of outreach and public communication on all levels in astronomy.
Collaboration To encourage international collaborations on outreach and public communication.

We support the overall IAU mission by supporting communicators of astronomy worldwide

Specifically, we support the OAO with the following:

Our members contribute to the review of CAP journal, a free peer-reviewed journal for astronomy communicators that was born out of C2 and moved to the OAO https://www.capjournal.org/
Our members support the Meet the IAU Astronomers! Programme of the OAO
C2 has representatives in the OAO advisory board

Ex-Officio Members:

- Lina Canas, OAO Representative
- Lucia Marchetti, IPS Liaison
- Kaoru Kimura, IPS President

External Page

Commission Web Page

Commission Members (340)

Under Division

Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage

Commission Working Groups

Commission C2 WG CAP Conferences
Commission C2 WG Communicating Climate Change Through Astronomy
Inter-Commission C1-C2-C3-C4 WG Astronomy in Culture (WGAC)

President

Oana Sandu (Barbulete)

European Southern Observatory
ESO Department of Communication
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
85748 Garching bei München
Germany

NCA adherence: Germany

Last updated:
January 26, 2022

Vice-President

Sylvie D. Vauclair

IRAP
14 Avenue Edouard Belin
31400 Toulouse
France

NCA adherence: France

Last updated:
July 19, 2018

Secretary

Vinicius de Abreu Oliveira

Universidade Federal do Pampa
Campus Caçapava do Sul
Prédio do LATRAM - sala 206
Av.Pedro Anunciação, 111 - Vila Batista
Caçapava do Sul 96570-000
Rio Grande do Sul (RS)
Brazil

NCA adherence: Brazil

Last updated:
January 25, 2022