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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.

New location, two parallel categories – for students’ and professional teams, tasks inspired by real challenges, rules prepared on the basis of guidelines from projects of space agencies, such as NASA or ESA and the chance to take part in the analog Mars mission on the Arabian Peninsula – all this is waiting for the participants of this one of the most important robotics-space event in Europe.

New location, two parallel categories – for students’ and professional teams, tasks inspired by real challenges, rules prepared on the basis of guidelines from projects of space agencies, such as NASA or ESA and the chance to take part in the analog Mars mission on the Arabian Peninsula – all this is waiting for the participants of this one of the most important robotics-space event in Europe.

60 teams have declared their participation in the third edition of European Rover Challenge. They come from 12 countries, among others from Canada, USA, Italy, Poland and also Peru. The final round of the competition will take place in Jasionka, between 10th and 13th September 2016.

Link to Poland is a media partner of the ERC.

Extended formula, mentoring workshops and the induction to a world robotic league are differentiations of the third edition of the European Rover Challenge. The event, which is the largest space – robotics event in Europe, will be held from 10-13th September 2016 in the Exhibition and Congress Centre in Jasionka (Podkarpackie Voivodeship).

The Canadians have dominated the podium in the second edition of the international Mars Rovers competition called the European Rover Challenge. The first place went to the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team from Canada, followed by the Polish team from the Białystok University of Technology (#next team) and the Mc Gill University Team from Montreal.

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

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.

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.

The first edition of European Rover Challenge has just finished! Link to Poland was there and we did a few interesting interviews with contestants and organisers. Today we present:

Łukasz Wilczyński – the ERC organiser, manager of Planet PR Agency and Mars Society Polska spokesman. He tells us about the aim behind creating ERC, his plans and making dreams come true