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Polish Coalition for Innovation, supporting Polish start-ups is just to be introduced. The project has been created by Polish scientific, academic and business institutions.

This year almost 40 teams from twelve countries have a chance to compete in the second edition of the European Rover Challenge, an international competition of Mars robots which will take place in Podzamcze near Kielce. Among the competitors there are: the American Yale University, multiple laureates of the American edition of the competition from the Białystok University of Technology or the last year laureates of ERC from the Kielce University of Technology and the Cairo University. The competition will be judged by experts from the European Space Agency.

The event is held under Link to Poland’s media patronage.

“This is a symbolic day, a day when after many years an important medieval manuscript returns to a place it comes from. What’s also symbolic is that we can reach to our origins, and that we’ve managed to bring this document back to Plock together,” Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said during the handover ceremony of the Plock Pontifical.

Visitors to the “Enigma. Decode Victory. Poles in Europe’s Service” exhibition that will be displayed from 11 to 26 April in the Vignola Castle, Italy, will have a chance to learn about Polish mathematicians who cracked the codes of the most famous German cipher machine. The event is co-organized by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Milan.

The Space Days Poland conference and the second edition of the European Rover Challenge will take place on 3 – 6 September in Poland. „This is an important event for the space sector in Poland and a great opportunity to present the potential of the engineering staff as well as the achievements of students” evaluates Grażyna Henclewska, Deputy Minister of Economy in Poland.

Multimedia artists and programmers from Poland, Germany and France will take part in The Brain – Open Lab, a workshop devoted to data gathering, human memory, and the workings of the brain. The event will be hosted by the gallery of the Polish Institute in Berlin.