Three days of thrilling competition, dozens of teams from around the world, and one goal: to find out which design performs best in conditions inspired by real space missions. This was the grand finale of the 11th edition of the European Rover Challenge (ERC), the largest space and robotics event in Europe. On the campus of AGH University of Kraków, engineering students from across continents faced tasks that in the future may be carried out by robots exploring Mars and the Moon. After an intense rivalry, victory went to the team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
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A thousand young people from 46 countries gathered in Warsaw for Polonia_Camp 2025 – the largest global gathering of young Poles to date. It was four days of building relationships, gaining knowledge, and experiencing their native culture. It is already known that the event will continue – Polonia_Camp 2026 will take place next year, and one of the most important announcements made by Senate Marshal Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska was the initiative to establish a Polish Diaspora Youth Council.
The 9th edition of the prestigious European Rover Challenge space robotics competition has concluded this Sunday. After intense competition on the world’s largest artificial Marsyard, team AGH Space Systems emerged as the best robotic team, meeting the rigorous demands of the jury. Second and third place were won by two teams from Switzerland: FHNW Rover Team and EPFL Xplore.
One of the biggest planetary robotics competitions in the world, the European Rover Challenge, opened its registration and introduced a new certification process. On top of the tasks based on actual missions performed by rovers on Mars and the Moon, ERC will validate the competence and skills of future engineers. From now on, academic teams worldwide can register for the competition and therefore get a chance to obtain the ERC Space & Robotics Industry Standard Practice Programme certificate.
Recruitment to the 5th edition of the European Rover Challenge has been completed – as many as 56 teams from 16 countries and 6 continents have applied to participate in the competition this year. The best teams will compete for a place on the podium during the finals which will take place between 13 and 15 September 2019 on the Kielce University of Technology campus. The challenge enjoys increased interest from companies and institutions operating within the international space sector, including PERASPERA – the European Space Robotics Cluster.
The next edition of the international Mars rover challenge – ERC – has been announced. This year it will take place on September 13-15 on the Kielce University of Technology campus.
NAWA invites experts who represent various research areas and have experience in the implementation and evaluation of research, education and promotion projects in the field of science and higher education. Recruitment of experts continues throughout the year.
The Polish Returns Programme – without introducing a limitation of the fields of science, age or country of employment – is addressed to all Poles who, after their employment abroad, would like to continue their scientific development in Poland. It creates optimal conditions for the Returning Scientists to conduct scientific research in Poland or/and maintain developmental work at a global level.
Applications for funding under these projects can be submitted by 4 June 2018.
There are 65 teams from 20 countries that have applied for the participation in the fourth edition of the international Mars rover challenge, European Rover Challenge, which makes it the leader among other competitions of this kind in the world. The organisers have received competition documentation from teams representing such countries as Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Canada, United States, Poland, Norway and Mexico. The final will take place on the 14-16th of September 2018 at the Museum of Nature and Technology in Starachowice. The patronage has already been taken by, among others, the European Space Agency.
ERC is held under Link to Poland’s media patronage.