The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO) is IAU’s hub for coordinating its public outreach activities around the world.

The aim is to build networks to support and disseminate information to the amateur astronomy and public outreach communities, and to ultimately make it easier for the public to access information about our Universe.

OAO is responsible for IAU’s interaction with the general public — through the public email address iaupublic@iap.fr, and partly through IAU’s Frequently Asked Questions and the popular Themes pages discussing various aspects of IAU’s activities.

I am currently acting as National Outreach Coordinator (NOC) of the OAO in Spain since June 2018.