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Professor Gerard Jugie and IPF showcase polar research at the CER 2005 conference

17.11.2005

The International Polar Foundation (IPF) had a strong presence at the recent Communicating European Research conference (CER 2005) held in Brussels 14-15 November. The conference, organised by the European Commission's Directorate-General Research saw over 2000 scientists, communications experts and media come together to interact and to demonstrate their capabilities and skills in a forum which gave media ready access to…
Congress for scientific teachers in Flanders

14.11.2005

Last Saturday, The International Polar Foundation (IPF) coordinated the participation of the BE-POLES cluster at the "Congres voor leraars Wetenschappen" at the VUB in Brussels. During 2 hours BE-POLES partners from three universities, Prof. Dr Louis Beyens (Universiteir Antwerpen, Polar ecology, limnology and paleobiology), Dr David Van Rooij (Universiteit Gent, Renard Centre of Marine Geology) and Prof. Dr Frank Dehairs…
The “general scenario” for the Polaris Climate Change Observatory in Brussels has been finalised

10.11.2005

On the 27th of October, the IPF Management Board approved the PCCO general scenario presented by the Polaris Brussels team. Following on from the previously written Polaris museographic backbone, this 50-page document provides the main message, objectives and a summary of the contents for each room. It also offers suggestions and requests concerning the various media or devices to be…
The IPF team for the Arctika Observatory has visited the French research ship Antea

10.11.2005

While preparing the IPY 2007-2008 Arctika Obervatory mission, the IPF team went to Dunkerque to visit a small european research ship. The Antea is is a 35m long catamaran belonging to the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD).
Spanish version of RDT Info magazine on European Polar Research

09.11.2005

IPF collaborated in the production of the special edition of the EU magazine RDT Info dedicated to European polar research. A Spanish version (in addition to the English, French and German versions) is now available on the Internet.