The opportunity to share with a wider audience what and what for the forScience team actually does in the Arctic came in January 2024, during the kick-off meeting of project ICEBERG. It was then that we were first told just how well our work fits with the Atlantic & Arctic…
Here it is at last! The official report from the Interdisciplinary Polar Studies (IPS-2023) Modular Meeting: Arctic Amplification–Glaciers–Environment, which took place over six days at the end of August and the beginning of September last year in Svalbard. Fancy reading it? Click here. The event was organized by the Centre…
Plastic pollution is an increasingly serious problem in the Arctic, where it exerts a damaging effect on the ecosystem already struggling under climate change. Luckily, it’s not only the amount of mismanaged plastic waste that has been on the rise over the last few decades. It’s also the amount of…
The letter-writing competition “Ludzie Listy Piszą” was held for the first time in 2014. The title could be translated as “People Write Letters”, but to a Polish person there’s a lot more to the pharse than its literal meaning. The words come from a song which has been around since…
The third edition of Meet The Space conference took place on 28–29 November 2015 at the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków, Poland. The 3rd International Space Science and Space Technology Conference Meet The Space III 28-29 November 2015, Museum of Polish Aviation, Kraków, Poland Conference theme: Planetary Atmosphere Sampling This…
On 5–6 September 2015 took place another edition of European Rover Challenge, whose main part is a prestigious international competition of Mars rovers designed and constructed by teams of students. The competition, as well as science and technology shows, and meetings with experts, took place in the Regional Science and…
On 6–8 June 2015, an event promoting astronomy took place on the premises of the largest, privately owned astronomical observatory in Poland (Rzepiennik Biskupi, Małopolska). The three-day event included: Astronomical Cross Country Run/Walk, Space Picnic "Space Station III", Grand Opening of the Observatory. On the last day, as part of…
Can polar regions be useful in space research? Answering this question was the aim of Polar4Space meeting organized jointly by the forScience Foundation and Telemetrica at the Institute of Tourism, Warsaw School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, on 30 January 2015. The meeting was attended by 27 people from the…