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19 APRIL 2014 time 14:57
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INAF-OAC enters the EU-Sky Route

INAF-OAC joins an European project aimed to promote astrotourism routes in several european country
EU-Sky Route is a european project aimed to draw a route of astronomical sites in Europe, giving value to our Astronomy Heritage. Gathering both knowledge and observation of the current sky, and the knowledge acquired by the European wise people and scientists of all times that have been enabling and achieve a common social and economic development.
Be capable of binding new expectations of active leisure and the infrastructure that Europe has in the field of astronomy is the challenge of this proposal.


INAF-OAC is one of the two Italian partner of the project.
The project, leaded by the SPET -  Turismo de Tenerife SPA, started with a Kickoff Meeting held in Tenerife last January.

Other EU-Sky Route partners are:
  • PODKARPACKA REGIONALNA ORGANIZACJA TURYSTYCZNA (POLAND)
  • AGÈNCIA VALENCIANA DE TURISMO (DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE TURISMO – GENERALITAT) (SPAIN)
  • THESSALONIKI SCIENCE CENTER AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM (NOESIS) (GREECE)
  • INSTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA (INAF) (Cagliari Observatory) (ITALY)
  • TENDER DI SDOGIATI CLAUDIO ONG (ITALY)
  • PERSONLA KONSULT GANTCHO POPOV – GPOPOV (BULGARIA)