Polish scientists won three gold medals with honours, eight gold medals and five special awards at at INPEX, the Invention and New Product Exposition. INPEX is the largest US Invention Trade Show organised for the 28th time.
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According to the Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013, published by the World Economic Forum, Poland is to be found among 21 countries in the process of transition from the economy based on the efficiency of the production system to the economy based on innovation. As a crucial part of this process Poland focuses on the development of IT/ICT sector, which has recently grown to be its national specialty. International campaign “Do IT with Poland” is aimed at making the world acquainted with the intellectual and investment potential of the Polish IT as well as presenting the strongest Polish ICT companies.
Poland may become a center of advanced IT services due to highly qualified specialists and managers – according to a recent survey of IT@PL Antal International, which was presented on May 16 at a conference in PAIiIZ.
Basil Kerski – Director of the European Solidarity Centre – became this year’s winner of the European Award of Polish POLONICUS.
The School of Polish Language and Culture invites young learners aged 14-17 to the Summer Polish language and culture camp “Explorers’ Summer”.
If we conduct surveys asking random people on the street of the most famous Polish name from the world of science and technology, the most common answer would probably be Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Copernicus or even Lucjan Łagiewka. But one of the outstanding Polish scientists is a little less known, but just as brilliant as the previously mentioned – Jan Czochralski.
How can we call female inhabitant of Los Angeles? Is there a feminine gender from the word “foreigner”?
You will get an answer to these and many other questions in the TV show called: “Polish @ Polish Dictionary”.
The European Union changed the name of European Earth monitoring program GMES in honour of Copernicus, who “stopped the Sun and moved the Earth.”
On September 20, 2012 the president of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, the world’s largest laboratory for particle physics, was elected. Polish woman – Prof Agnieszka Zalewska from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Polish Academy of Science will hold the office from January 1, 2013.