Many institutions in the metropolitan region around the cities of Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg that deal with science and education are invited to participate with exhibitions of experiments and information, workshops as well as talks. The audience is children and teenagers. This years motto is The Universe of Human Beings.

The House of Astronomy participates with a workshop on satellite navigation (6 lessons) and an exhibition with hands-on experiments and illustrations that deal with the topic Mankind and Cosmos. Its purpose is to highlight the cultural and scientific connections between the Universe and human beings throughout history. The main topics are closely related to EU Space Awareness and comprise:

• Habitat Earth (e.g. weather, climate, climate change)
• Habitat space (e.g. living and life in space, exoplanets, colonisation)
• Exploration and navigation (celestial and modern navigation)
• Civilisations and cosmos (stellar constellations, cultural contributions, views of the
world, sundial)

15 to 19 June 2016
Luisenpark, Mannheim, Germany
expected audience: several thousand pupils (exhibition), 120 pupils (workshop)