ASDC is launching a new 2-year national STEM programme exploring and sharing the relevance of UK space science for the future health and sustainability of our home planet.
Our World From Space will leverage current learning and connections from ASDC’s wider suite of national STEM programmes to celebrate, engage and inspire audiences with UK Earth observation science, innovation and skills. It will build upon the extensive training, knowledge and equipment of two previous ASDC programmes, Destination Space and Operation Earth, which have run concurrently in previous years. This existing expertise will be coupled with an external and robust evaluation programme to explore the impact for participants and practitioners.
ASDC invites up to 23 science and discovery centres and museums to engage their audiences with an exciting range of meaningful experiences that combine depth and breadth of engagement across the key content areas. From global themes down to hyper-local case studies, the programme will use awe, wonder and inspiration, alongside immediate relevance, to increase audiences’ understanding, engagement and sense of ownership in relation to these areas.
The programme is majority funded by the UK Space Agency, with additional funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
ASDC will hold a bidder’s Q&A session via Zoom on Thursday 19th April 2pm-3.30pm, where all science centres and museums interested in applying will have the opportunity to hear about the programme from the ASDC team, have their specific questions answered and hear the responses given to others who would be bidding.
This open framework has been used in all previous ASDC programmes, to answer questions and give clarity over what centres need to deliver, schedules, audiences, grants, budgets and reporting before each centre applies. The funders will be present at this meeting and can answer questions directly.
Please register and join this Bidder's Q&A Call run by ASDC if you wish to ask any questions in advance of submitting your proposal for this programme.
The call will be chaired by ASDC who will be joined by the programme funders UK Space Agency and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
We ask that you read through the Invitation to participate before attending this event.
The deadline to apply for this funding is 28th April.
Register here to join the call.
Our World From Space: Invitation to participate
Our World From Space: Application form
