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The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its BepiColombo mission to the planet Mercury from its spaceport near the equator in Kourou, French Guyana, on October 20.

On Monday, we highlighted the start of National Hate Crime Awareness Week. Today, Dr Fidele Mutwarasibo, Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, reports on the OU's Harmonies4Harmony Music Festival held on its Milton Keynes campus

Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon’s 1956 novel – The Lonely Londoners – depicts the lives of immigrant characters of the ‘Windrush Generation’, encouraged to migrate to the UK to help national reconstruction after WWII. Find out more in our free OpenLearn course

There are thousands of educational resources available online targeted at refugees & asylum seekers, yet very little information about whether they are fit for purpose. Gabi Witthaus writes today about her involvement in the Refugees' Educational Resources Project (RefER)

To mark National Hate Crime Awareness Week, The Open University is holding a music festival as part of its Year of Mygration, an initiative developed to promote a fairer and more inclusive society. Dr Fidele Mutwarasibo explains more in today's blog post

An OU PhD student, who graduated in September 2018, found that there has been a decline in the number of marine animals in the Antarctic due to a reduction in sea ice.

Dr Avi Boukli was one of two OU Academic Consultants on the stunning recent OU BBC production, Storyville: Jailed in America. Today, Avi explores the issues surrounding supporting survivors of trafficking, particularly those who identify as LGBTQI+

The southeast flank of Mount Etna in Sicily is sliding towards the sea at a rate of several centimetres a year. This might not sound like much, but the kind of stress that this movement creates inside volcanoes can cause devastating landslides. If, one day, Etna’s movement significantly increases then it could have serious consequences.

The OU has been working with the BBC to bring you a series of ground-breaking films about slavery in the modern age, now available on BBC iPlayer. Today, Dr Olga Jurasz from the OU highlights the first prosecution in the UK under the Modern Slavery Act, made just last week

A new report and learning resources published this week (8 October 2018) by the Rethinking Research Collaborative, highlight the importance of equitable collaboration for poverty reduction in research that seeks to address global challenges.