STARS ACTIVITIES

23 de octubre de 2023

STARS has been by far our most challenging & at the same most satisfying Erasmus+ project! We felt sad to close it but at the same excited about the power and learnings that it has brought us. On the 2nd of August 15 youth leaders and workers assisted to the Solomon STARS Closure Event. On the 19th – 20th of August 28 youth leaders and workers joined the Bali STARS Closure Event. On the 22nd of August the Canary STARS event had to be cancelled due to the biggest forest fires of the island´s history followed by several heat waves. The activity is to be held on the 5th of […]

1 de agosto de 2023

Get your copy here!  Read online or print it out… hopefully you enjoy it as much as we did preparing it! STARS Tool Kit (ENG) STARS Tool Kit (IND) STARS Tool Kit (ESP)

5 de abril de 2023

The Spanish participants focused their multiplier course on «Volcanoes, bats and stars» on the 1st of April 2023. The afternoon started with a non formal education energyzer and an interesting information about traditional fishing. Then, the group did a cleaning activity: picking up the garbage we found on the way from the town square to the lighthouse. We had the opportunity to enter the lighthouse building, explore it and enjoy a sunset accompanied by a picnic of local products. We then attended a talk about bats in the Canary Islands and ended the evening with a stargazing session about astronomy and the cosmogony of our ancestors – the Guanches. More… […]

5 de marzo de 2023

The Solomon team developed «Sustainable Tourism Agents in Rural Societies (STARS) in astro tourism» multiplier course on the 2nd of March 2023. A 1-day workshop was held for 31 young people from various youth organizations at National Youth Council to empower and create job opportunities for young people in rural settings. The programme had two components: Community Based Tourism (CBT) and astro tourism. CBT focuses on identifying potential attraction sites as hiking and trekking routes to waterfalls and caves or historical sites whilst astro tourism is related to astronomy and astrology that can be recorded and documented. The CBT initiative hopes to promote social sustainability by involving young people in […]

27 de febrero de 2023

Our Indonesian team denominated their multiplier event «International Event Stargazing Within Tourism» and held it twice with a total of 50 participants: 20 youngsters in December 2022 and 30 participants in February 2023. It aimed introducing new insights and knowledge to the field of astro tourism, management, and empowerment. Several methods were used in these activities during the learning process, such as gamification, video presentations, and learning by doing. After STARS Bingo icre-breaker, there was an introduction about STARS and its purpose and the activities we have done during the STARS project to give the participant a clear picture of what the program is about. It was followed by astrology […]

2 de diciembre de 2022

Finding good practices of sustainable and eco tourism in Bali was the main goal of three Spanish job shadowers visiting projects related to our partner IPBI. In the starting point – the most touristic city of Bali – we spent just an hour to pass by numerous small tourism businesses offering tourisric activifies all around the island to double-check: nobody had anything astro tourism related. It´s a free niche in Bali! Creating sustainable tourism activities in less developed tourism areas of Bali is one of the tasks of the IPBI Tourism Management students. We were happy to join their visit to Medewi. The first activity that we visit is a […]

30 de noviembre de 2022

Testing STARS method tools created in the first phase of the project as well as sharing, learning and providing inputs for further developement of the methodology were among the main goals of STARS Training Course. It took place from the 6th to 12th of November 2022 in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia and brought together 24 youth leaders and workers in the field of youth from Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), Bali (Indonesia) and Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands). Stars, non formal education, astronomy, astrology, legends, heritage and sustainable tourism… were the most frequent words in these 7 days of trainings that by sharing our heritage, learning about the sustainable tourism and stars brought us […]

29 de abril de 2022

On the 29th of April meeting we kept polishing details of Bali STARS meeting. Long-waited update: Bali is starting to open up to visitors from more & more countries! The quarantine in Jakarta is not mandatory anymore. We hope for the best: peace & safety of everybody. In the screenshot: our Mr. Djinaldi who has made many incredible initiatives happen and supports STARS as well. 😊