The report is written in English and published in the form of an article in the annual IFES bulletin.
Arrived MOU for Serbia participation in uniform project…
Director of IfES dr Hiroaki Akiyama sent the text of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as an official invitation to one higher educational institution from Serbia to participate in the UNIFORM project. The interested institution will sign the Memorandum with Wakayama University, by which will officially become a partner and representative of Serbia in this international project.
Completed development and the second part of UCHU-GAME SOFTWARE…
Agreed upon joining GENSO project…
Agreed upon joining of the Committee to GENSO (Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations) project.
The main objective of the GENSO project is to create worldwide network of amateur radio and the university ground stations in order to establish the longer (24 hours) communication with university satellites.
GENSO is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and coordinated by the Office for Education of the European Space Agency. University of Vigo (Spain) is the central of European operations and coordinate accesses to GENSO network.
published handbook “CanSat Program 1″…
SUCCESSFUL TESTING of UCHU-GAME at kindergarten in wakayama…
SUCCESSFUL TESTING OF UCHU-GAME AT KINDERGARTEN IN OSAKA…
Completed development of the first part of UCHU-GAME software …
Started the development of astronomy educational program: UCHU-GAME …
Started the development of astronomy educational program for preschool and primary school age. It is a joint development (Dusan Radosavljevic/Committee and dr Akihiko Tomita/Faculty of Education, Wakayama University) of interactive, educational software that will be able to be used online and offline at kindergarten, classroom and at home. The working title of the program is “UCHU-GAME” (the Japanese word uchu-universe, space) and is realized within the project “The Strategy for Achieving the Socio-Economic Benefits of Space Knowledge and Technology Applications; Education and Human Resources Development (lessons for structural reforms of Serbian educational system)”. The program will be used as a tool for conducting research among preschool children and the first two years of primary school, on different sides of the world, among different cultures, mentalities, different ways of life, level of development of the state and so on, about the degree of similarity in thinking, experience and understanding of the world around them through concrete and abstract work.
Expressed willingness to Serbia participate in UNIFORM (Japan) project…
Leader of UNIFORM (University International Formation Mission) project dr Hiroaki Akiyama, also director of IfES, on the initiative of the Committee expressed its readiness to one higher education institution from Serbia take part in this project. UNIFORM represents a project of developing a system for monitoring of wild fires through the constellation of micro-satellites.