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Post by Bonobo on Apr 23, 2017 0:36:36 GMT 1
Funny design. Polish architects score major international success 13.04.2017 07:59 A team of Polish architects, Paweł Lipiński and Mateusz Frankowski, are among the three winners of the 2017 Skyscraper Competition. Mashamba, Swahili, East Africa. Photo: Press MaterialsMashamba, Swahili, East Africa. Photo: Press Materials  Their project Mashambas Skyscraper, which takes its name from the Swahili word for “cultivated land”, is a modular and scalable design, which is meant as an educational centre and marketplace for new agricultural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. The flexible design, which can be easily assembled, disassembled, and transported, allows for multiple uses including a ground floor marketplace, warehouses, drone services, classrooms, and farming areas on the upper levels. Paweł Lipiński and Mateusz Frankowski are last year’s graduates of the Department of Architecture and Town Planning of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. The Skyscraper Competition, which has been run by the eVolo Magazine since 2006, recognises visionary ideas for high-rise buildings. This year, a total of 444 projects have been examined by an international jury. |
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Post by Bonobo on May 27, 2017 21:42:12 GMT 1
Polish students runners-up in world programming contest 25.05.2017 11:14 The Warsaw Eagles, a team of Warsaw University students, have won second place in the International Collegiate Programming Contest held in Rapid City, South Dakota, US. Students from the Warsaw University solved 10 problems in total. Photo: Twitter.com/@icpcnewsstudents from the Warsaw University solved 10 problems in total. Photo: Twitter.com/@icpcnews  The group from the faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics lost to a team from St Petersburg, Russia. Poland was also represented by teams from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the University of Wrocław. A total of 133 teams from 44 countries on six continents took part in the event. They had been selected in a preliminary round entered by over 46,000 students from 103 countries. (mk/rg) tags: |
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 4, 2017 16:11:28 GMT 1
Poland chosen to join UN Security Council
02.06.2017 18:31
Poland has been chosen as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in 2018-2019 in a vote on Friday.
The vote took place in New York on Friday. Photo: MSZThe vote took place in New York on Friday. Photo: MSZ
Poland received 190 votes to join the Council during the ballot in New York.
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said the event "marks a great victory for Polish diplomacy, and a major foreign policy success.”
“It’s proof that a foreign policy aimed at empowerment is bearing fruit. We are starting to act globally, we are not afraid of serious challenges,” he added.
Participation in the UN Security Council election was the high point of the foreign minister’s visit to New York.
Poland has been engaged in a flurry of efforts in recent months to secure support for its bid for a seat at the table in 2018 and 2019.
The UN Security Council consists of five veto-wielding permanent members (China, France, Russia, the UK and US), and 10 non-permanent members elected by the organisation’s General Assembly for a term of two years.
One non-permanent place goes to a country from Eastern Europe.
From the latter group, Bulgaria put itself forward as a candidate as well as Poland, but withdrew in December 2016.
This is the sixth time Poland has been elected a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
“Such a good result is a testament to the recognition of Poland’s contribution to maintaining international peace and security, and to the trust which the international community places in our country,” the Polish foreign ministry said in a statement.
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 4, 2017 17:12:07 GMT 1
Polish student wins European Charlemagne Youth Prize 25.05.2017 11:02 Gabriela Jelonek, a student of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, western Poland, has won the European Charlemagne Youth Prize for projects promoting understanding between nations. In addition to a diploma and a medal, she received EUR 7,500 for a series of radio programmes broadcast on Radio Meteor UAM, the student radio station at her university. Entitled “Erasmus Evening”, the shows were addressed to students who plan to apply for an Erasmus grant abroad. Broadcast in English, they included not only practical information relating to study curricula at various universities and tips on how to rent a flat in a foreign country, but also interviews with Polish students who have already completed their Erasmus courses and with foreigners studying in Poland. The European Charlemagne Youth Prize was launched in 2008. It is awarded by the European Parliament and the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation every year to people in the 16-30 age bracket for projects promoting understanding between people from European countries. twitter.com/jelonekgabrielaI still can't belive that this is real!   |
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 1, 2017 14:44:38 GMT 1
Polish teenager among prizewinners of EU contest 27.09.2017 09:00 Poland’s Kamil Humański is one of three second-place winners of the European Union Contest for Young Scientists. The European Commission's Robert-Jan Smits, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, Kamil Humański, and president of the contest's jury Atilla Borics. Photo: EUCYS 2017.The European Commission's Robert-Jan Smits, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, Kamil Humański, and president of the contest's jury Atilla Borics. Photo: EUCYS 2017.  Also known as EUCYS, the competition's results were announced on Tuesday in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. Humański, an 18-year-old from Szczecin, north-western Poland, entered a project focusing on identifying fossilized echinoderms, the most evolutionarily advanced invertebrates which lived 460 million years ago. In addition to the silver medal, Humański received a special prize – an invitation to the International Youth Science Seminar in Stockholm, during which he will be able to attend the 2017 Nobel Prize ceremonies and meet the Nobel laureates. Two others Poles, Adam Klukowski from Piaseczno, central Poland and Aleksander Kostrzewa from Warsaw, received honourable mentions in Tallinn. The EUCYS finals brought together the winners of national student research contests from 38 countries. The contest has been organized by the European Commission since 1989. It is open to students between 14 and 21 years of age. Since their first participation in the event in 1995, Polish students have won 25 main awards. (mk/v |
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 22, 2017 10:44:21 GMT 1
Polish students won silver at Students from 160 Nations to Reconvene a Year from Now in Mexico City for the Second Iteration of the FIRST Global Challenge
FIRST Global
July 19, 2017
Students from 160 Nations to Reconvene a Year from Now in Mexico City for the Second Iteration of the FIRST Global Challenge
For Immediate Release
July 18, 2017
Washington, D.C. – FIRST Global (www.first.global) caps off the three-day robotics competition that saw one high-school team from each of the nearly 160 participating nations compete to address one of the world’s most pressing issues – water security. Accomplished inventor, Dean Kamen founded FIRST Global with the mission to inspire an interest in science and technology development among the 2 billion youth of the world and ensuring that every child has the chance to obtain necessary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills to overcome the greatest challenges our world faces.
The games – aimed at addressing water security – concluded with the Award Ceremony, during which teams were awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals in ten categories – both qualitative and quantitative in nature – highlighting the qualities that FIRST Global aims to inspire in the STEM leaders of tomorrow. The winners (listed below) were selected by an international panel of judges comprised of members of the STEM community who have been part of the FIRST Global Challenge experience from the beginning.first.global/press-releases/students-from-160-nations-to-reconvene-a-year-from-now-in-mexico-city-for-the-second-iteration-of-the-first-global-challenge/ |
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Post by jeanne on Oct 24, 2017 21:41:35 GMT 1
Funny design. Polish architects score major international success 13.04.2017 07:59 A team of Polish architects, Paweł Lipiński and Mateusz Frankowski, are among the three winners of the 2017 Skyscraper Competition. Mashamba, Swahili, East Africa. Photo: Press MaterialsMashamba, Swahili, East Africa. Photo: Press Materials Sorry I didn't comment on this earlier... That Mashambas Skyscraper is true innovation! Yay, Poles!! |
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Post by Bonobo on Jul 13, 2018 9:04:40 GMT 1
Polish youngsters won 9th place at the Maths Olympics.  wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23667057,zloto-i-piec-srebrnych-medali-na-olimpiadzie-matematycznej.html |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 16, 2018 15:12:46 GMT 1
A Polish company provided a part of the drill sent on a mission to explore Mars. Hence, the Polish flag among others.  wyborcza.pl/7,75400,24262140,pierwsze-zdjecie-polskiej-flagi-na-marsie-wlasnie-dotarlo-na.html |
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