Across the duration of the Our World From Space programme ASDC ran space community meetings bringing together a network of discovery centres, museums, and wider space outreach and engagement organisations, to stay up-to-date and connected in with current UK space interests.
From October 2023 to March 2025 ASDC ran regular online meetups and opportunities to engage with collaborative campaigns and national events, and find out the news relating to upcoming missions, discoveries, recent advances in technology and on topics of high public interest (e.g. aurora, upcoming eclipses). The aim was to provide regular opportunities for space engagement professionals to share ideas, inspiring practice and build capacity and connections. The calls always involved time for networking and a share of hands-on demos or digital demonstrations and resource sharing.
“They've given us contacts / experts that we could invite to our events, provided activity ideas to incorporate into our programmes, and the speakers have provided excellent backgrounds and information on science topics that we try to communicate with our audiences so have given us some valuable 'spacing up'!”
Alongside the meetings, mini grants were distributed to support additional events on broader space topics (beyond Our World From Space) and recipients applied through a competitive process to be awarded for their activities.
Please read the below report for more information about the ASDC Space Community of Practice.
ASDC Space Community of Practice Report
