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• Arrigoni-Battaia, Fabrizio [European Southern Observatory (ESO)]
• Löbling, Lisa [European Southern Observatory (ESO); Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Tübingen, Germany]
• Man, Allison [European Southern Observatory (ESO); Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada]
• Asabere, Bernard Duah [Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory, Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute, Legon Accra, Ghana]
• Kerzendorf, Wolfgang [European Southern Observatory (ESO)]
• Valenti, Elena [European Southern Observatory (ESO)]

Designed by ESO astronomers, the Astronomy Research Training (ART) provides an intensive introductory course in astronomy to university-level students with no prior education in astronomy. The aim is to expand the astronomical community by empowering the participants to conduct research projects with open-source data. The first ESO ART was successfully conducted in Ghana in April 2018. We provide an overview of this new initiative here.