Public outreach
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2024
7 February 2024 - In the framework of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, IAA-CSIC electronic engineer Rosario Sanz presented the DUSTER project to small groups of first-year high school students from I.E.S. Pedro Soto De Rojas. The students could ask her questions both about her engineering and scientific work, but also about her personal and professional careers.
DUSTER video on YouTube (Spanish) - presentation by IAA
16 January 2024 - While space agencies prepare to return to the Moon, teams of scientists and engineers face the challenge of mitigating a major environmental hazard: dust.
The DUSTER project will study charged dust particles that pose a serious health risk to human explorers and space instruments.
This is in brief the content of this short You Tube video in Spanish, created by the team at IAA:
"Proyecto DUSTER: un estudio del polvo lunar en preparación de futuras misiones de exploración".
DUSTER highlighted on the IAA website on the occasion of the first Review Meeting in Granada
15 January 2024 - One year after the start of the of Horizon Europe DUSTER project, the first Review Meeting took place in Granada. The entire team of engineers, scientists as well as science communicators came together on the premises of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia (IAA) on 17 and 18 January 2024.
It was a very fruitful meeting, discussing the advances made in the different work packages, but also plans and opportunities for the next year ahead. Despite some difficulties, the results presented at our Review Meeting were very much appreciated by all the stakeholders: the EC project Officer, the External Expert and the Advisory Board members. This is very encouraging and important for the successful continuation of the project.
In order to highlight our venue on the IAA premises, IAA published on their website a news presenting the DUSTER project.
Open days at the Space Pole in Uccle 2022
24-25 September 2022 - During the last weekend of September 2022, the Space Pole in Uccle opened its doors to the public. BIRA-IASB staff welcomed around 8500 visitors of all ages, sharing their knowledge and motivation for Earth and Space sciences. One of them was Sylvain Ranvier, lead of the DUSTER project, who enthusiastically talked about the study of lunar dust charging and movement to the visiting families and kids. 