Abstract
Based on resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education were established in India, Morocco, Nigeria, Brazil/Mexico, and Jordan. Simultaneously, education curricula were developed for the core disciplines of remote sensing, satellite communications, satellite meteorology, space and atmospheric science, and global navigation satellite systems. This paper provides a brief summary on the status of the operation of the regional centres with a view to continue utilizing them as information centres of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG). Space Weather and Astrobiology are specific fields that can be incorporated into the already existing education curricula.
Highlights
Since 1988, the United Nations, through its Programme on Space Applications, supported the establishment and operation of regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Western Asia [1,2,3,4,5,6]
In the following we briefly review these developments and highlight the most recent updated education curricula in the five disciplines that are available in official languages of the United Nations, for implementation at the regional centres and beyond
In its resolution 45/72 of 11 December 1990 the General Assembly of the United Nations endorsed the recommendation of the Working Group of the Whole of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, as endorsed by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), that the UN should lead, with the active support of its specialized agencies and other international organizations, an international effort to establish regional centres for space science and technology education in existing national/regional educational institutions in the developing nations [17]
Summary
Since 1988, the United Nations, through its Programme on Space Applications, supported the establishment and operation of regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Western Asia [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Detailed education curricula at the university level were developed and published for remote sensing and geographic information systems, satellite communications, satellite meteorology and global climate, space and atmospheric science, and global navigation satellite systems (positioning, navigation, timing) [7,8].
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