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• 7 Sept – 2 Oct 2026

  2026/2027 asteroid campaign

  7 September to 2 October: a new search campaign with students and volunteers. Preliminary results published in early October, including a preliminary discovery at the Lycée français Blaise Pascal.

  📍 En ligne · Science citoyenne

• 30 June 2024

  Asteroid Day

  Lectures at LASMES for the international day of asteroids.

  📍 LASMES · Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

• 1 February 2024

  Space days · Lycée Blaise Pascal

  An introduction to astronomy and stargazing with AIA’s telescopes, at the opening of the school’s astronomy club.

  📍 Abidjan · Lycée français Blaise Pascal

• 27 Nov – 8 Dec 2023

  Astro Tour Ivoire

  27 November to 8 December: four cities, nine dates. Free workshops, teacher training, stargazing and lectures for all, with SpaceBus France and IRD. Fifteen scientists, ten Ivorian and five French.

  📍 Abidjan · Yamoussoukro · Korhogo · Bouaké

• 18 May 2023

  AstroPause #1

  “Satellite communication, Earth and the reconquest of space”: AIA presentation and talks on the Ivorian space agency and satellites. Some fifty participants.

  📍 LASMES · Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

• 26 January 2023

  Café des Savoirs · “There is no planet B”

  As guest of the Institut Français de Côte d’Ivoire, AIA led a debate on the future of the Earth.

  📍 Institut Français de Côte d’Ivoire

• 16 – 18 July 2021

  On The Moon Again

  16 to 18 July: three days of Moon observation at Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, as part of the international On The Moon Again operation.

  📍 Abidjan · Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

• 13 February 2021

  AIA is born

  Founding general assembly at Félix Houphouët-Boigny University: Dr Aziz Diaby is elected first president.

  📍 Abidjan-Cocody