Press Releases
View the full archive of International Polar Foundation press releases published since the organisation's founding in 2002.
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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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Arctic Futures Programme: Canada, Arctic Resource Development Tops Brussels Agenda
European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki, Vice-President of the European Parliament Isabelle Durant and Belgium’s deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders …
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Scientists at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Discover 18kg Meteorite
Brussels, 28 February 2013 – An international team of scientists, working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station, has discovered a meteorite with a mass of 18kg embedded in the East Antarctic ice …
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International Polar Foundation team make first contact with Emperor Penguins
Antarctica, 8 January 2013 - Three International Polar Foundation team members from Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station are the first humans to have ever visited and photographed a …
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International Polar Foundation Welcomes Scientists to Antarctica for 2012-2013 Season
Antarctica, 22 November 2012 - Nine scientists from Belgium, UK, Japan and Germany [1], touched down today at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica [2], to begin the Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE) summer science season. Expedition …