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GalileoMobile es un proyecto educativo itinerante que lleva el Año Internacional de la Astronomía (IYA2009) a numerosas escuelas de Chile, Bolivia y Perú. Tiene por objetivo fomentar inquietudes acerca del Universo despertando el interés de jóvenes y niños por conocer más acerca del cielo. Para ello, los pone en contacto con conceptos básicos de Astronomía y Física mediante experimentos, modelos, observaciones y explicaciones. Combinando curiosidad y creatividad, invita a los estudiantes a hacer un viaje emocionante por el sistema solar, a dar un recorrido por las constelaciones e incluso a hacer una exploración por los cráteres de la Luna.

GalileoMobile busca por medio del intercambio cultural y educativo compartir interpretaciones relacionadas con el cielo, en un lugar que ha sido dotado de un claro cielo de diamantes. Para ello, registra sus experiencias, historias y recorridos a través de la realización y difusión de un documental, para transmitir un mensaje de “unidad bajo el mismo cielo”.
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The International Year of Astronomy gives us all a goal and a challenge, for this year and we hope for years to come: to turn our eyes to the sky and ask once more the most ancient and fascinating questions on our existence. Where do we come from? What is our place in the Universe? There are so many stories to tell, and we have decided to share ours with communities that have always lived closer to the sky than anyone.

For this purpose we have created the GalileoMobile, that will carry us together with telescopes and astronomy outreach material through the Altiplano area in South America. Where the Inca empire once flourished, where astronomy once was part of everyday life, there we wish to bring it again, now more grown-up and mature. At the same time, we want to listen to what people think of the stars in a place that has been gifted with a diamond clear sky, to live in their way for a while and learn from their legends and traditions.

As scientists we know the joy knowledge can bring. As educators we know that a seed of curiosity will grow and flourish among young people. For this we will provide the places we visit with local and global contacts, some educational material, as well as long-term support, so that educators can continue teaching astronomy after we leave.

Our testimony will be a documentary, a movie that will show sharing beyond borders, and we hope will propose a way to unite us with one sole thing we all have in common. Our limit, our source of inspiration and our guide: the sky.