Following on from the Camille Flammarion 2024 award, the Société Française d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique (SF2A) and the Société Astronomique de France (SAF) have decided to recognize Raphaël Peralta’s work by awarding him the Camille Flammarion prize for international scientific mediation.
Raphaël Peralta is head of communications at the Astrophysics Department (DAp) of the IRFU at CEA Paris-Saclay, and founder and president of the SpaceBus France association, whose aim is to raise public awareness of science, particularly astronomy and space, by making it accessible to all through itinerant tours of the French-speaking world.
The award underlines the impact of Raphaël’s work in developing scientific awareness in two African countries, Togo (2022) and Côte d’Ivoire (2023), where he has organized these tours in collaboration with the Association Ivoirienne d’Astronomie (AIA) and the Togolese association SG2D (Science Géologique pour le Développement Durable).