Enhance public participation in society’s roles
- Established about 19 branches in different Universities across the country
- Created more than 100 clubs in schools
- Individual members increased from 47 to more than 10,000
- Growing interest of institutional members
- Increased number of volunteers in space activities
International Representation
- Enable ESSS become membership of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Creating awareness, Continuous Educational Camping & Outreach Activities
- Create Space Science awareness to the country
- Periodically deliver continuous educational campaign and outreach program such as
- Stargazing Nights
- Space Event
- Public Talk & lecture series
- School to school experience sharing programs
- Summer school training
- Workshops and teachers training
Society’s contributions for the development of Space Science in Ethiopia
- Establishment of Entoto Observatory and Research Center and its legal transfer to the Ethiopian government
- Initiate and coordinate Lalibela Astronomical Site testing project
- Played leading role for the establishment of the East African Regional office of Astronomical Development (ROAD) in Addis Ababa
- Persistently work to promote space science to be an agenda of the government policy
Promoting Space Science Activities
- Organize regional and international workshops and conferences
- Participating on Exhibitions
- Broadcasting Space science activities of Ethiopia via national and international Digital and electronics Medias(, EBC, FBC, Addis Tv, BBC, CNN, CCTV, The Gurdian, Repporter, etc)
Foreign Collaboration & Public relation
- Promote & build Ethiopian image in space regionally and internationally.
- Have good relation & Collaborations with Space Agencies and Institutes such as NASA, USA and South Korea
Short And Long Term Plan Of The Society
Creating continuous awareness and educational campaign at:-
- Government policy makers and higher officials at federal and regional level
- Universities, research institutes ,colleges, and schools communities
- Investors, industrial and business sectors, and non-governmental organizations
- Media and communication professionals and to the public at large
- To take initiatives in participating and consulting the government in adoption and implementation of a space policy and strategy
- Searching and studying all the potential areas in the country which can be a good candidate for Astronomical observatory sites.
- Finalizing the Lalibella site test study and start building the International Astronomical observatory
- Strengthen the society in terms of by:
- Increasing participation of the youth
- increasing volunteers
- increasing branches and clubs
- finance , materials and support establishing
- Building Planetarium
