Latest News
In this section you will find news related to IPF activities, its members, its projects, etc. We will try to keep you up to date as much as we can. If you need specific information, you can always get in touch using the contact form.
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The Belgian Station project in the press
19.10.2005
The Belgian daily paper "Le Soir" dated October 19 published an article about the BELARE 2005 Logistics Survey Expedition and the tests (wind tunnel & snow drifting) realised by the Von Karman Institute for the Belgian Antarctic Station to be built on the Utsteinen nunatak.
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Redesign and Relaunch of the Educapoles website
13.10.2005
The IT team of the International Polar Foundation is proud to announce that EducaPoles, IPF's educational website, has been redesigned and relaunched. It sets out to sensitize young people and the educational world to the importance of the Polar Regions and of climate change by proposing adapted teaching tools and projects. It is available in French and English.
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BE-POLES cluster provides travel scholarships: first call is open
11.10.2005
The BE-POLES fellowships are intended to allow young researchers to undertake short term visits to major international laboratories or field facilities, so as to become acquainted with recent advances in research and/or to develop long-term scientific links and partnerships. The work shall be carried out in a research group different from that of the applicant's origin for a period of…
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The Belgian Solar Team finishes the World Solar Challenge in 12th position
03.10.2005
For the first time in the history of the World Solar Challenge, a Belgian team completed the race and arrived in Adelaide, Australia after 3021 kilometres. The Umicore team arrived in 12th position and won the Hans Tholstrup Adventurer Award. Alain Hubert and the International Polar Foundation were proud to support this endeavour.
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The IPF participates in the “Environment and Sustainable Development Day” in Nice
01.10.2005
This one day event was organised for the 8th consecutive year by the University of Nice Sophia Antiopolis. This year, the "Journée de l'Environnement et du Développement Durable" was focused on rediscovering the concept of sustainable development 13 years after Rio and what it means and implies in today's society. Gauthier Chapelle, IPF scientific officer, was invited by Pr Michel…






