This plenary session of the NAC aims to inform people of the various outreach activities that are organized by the Dutch institutes, or in which the Dutch institutes are otherwise involved.

Programme

• Peter Barthel
• Watch out: Exoplanet in the Netherlands! Umit Kavak
• How being single or in a couple affects the death of massive stars Eva Laplace
• A new approach to modelling gamma-ray burst afterglows: Using Gaussian processes to account for the systematics Mehmet Deniz Aksulu
• Public value and public purpose of Astronomy Pedro Russo

Invited speakers

• Peter Barthel (University of Groningen)
• Pedro Russo (Leiden Observatory)