Press Releases
View the full archive of International Polar Foundation press releases published since the organisation's founding in 2002.
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A Teacher At Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station
Brussels, the 19th of November 2014 - Roger Radoux, an electronics teacher at the Athénée Royal d'Ans and the laureate of the second Polar Quest contest, …
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Arctic Futures Symposium “The Arctic, its peoples, and its economies”
The International Polar Foundation and its partners have successfully organised the fifth Arctic Futures Symposium on October 14-15 in the European Quarter in Brussels, Belgium. The symposium focused on economic …
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The InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship Award Granted to Researcher Jan Lenaerts
Brussels, Belgium, September 17th, 2014 – A young Belgian researcher, Jan Lenaerts was this afternoon presented with the prestigious €150,000 InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship, by Jean-Jacques Derwael, a renowned geodetic surveyor, …
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Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Celebrates Five Years of Successful Operations
Brussels, Belgium, February 13, 2014 -- This Saturday, February 15th, the International Polar Foundation celebrates five years of successful operations since the inauguration of Antarctica’s only zero emission polar …
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Scientists Arrive at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica for Polar Research Season
Antarctica, 27 November 2013 – A group of Belgium-based scientists have arrived this week at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station, to begin the 2013-2014 four-month BELARE scientific research season.