Press Releases

View the full archive of International Polar Foundation press releases published since the organisation's founding in 2002.

  • Hampered by bad weather, Antarctic Season Begins at Zero Emission Research Station

    Antarctica, 12 November 2012 – An International Polar Foundation [1] operations team led by expedition leader Alain Hubert arrived today at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica - the world’s first zero emission polar …

  • Antarctic Ice Sheet Scientist Awarded €150,000 Fellowship

    Brussels, October 3rd, 2012 - A young German glaciologist was tonight presented with the prestigious €150,000 InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship [1], by His Royal Highness Prince Philippe of Belgium, for his proposal …

  • Belgium’s Antarctic adventure continues

    The International Polar Foundation today welcomed the new impetus given to Belgium’s Polar Secretariat by science policy minister Paul Magnette [1] for research at Princess Elisabeth Station in Antarctica.

  • Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is linked!

    Brussels and Luxembourg – March 5th, 2010 -- The International Polar Foundation (IPF) and global satellite operator SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), today announced that the …

  • “Zero Emission” Objective Achieved

    We are pleased to announce the handover of the fully functional smart microgrid inside the Princess Elisabeth Station to the International Polar Foundation (IPF). After successful completion of the final …