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The team enjoyed pleasant weather as they started working on the first major tasks of the season.

Thanks to a productive first week and favourable weather, the station is now running at full power with all systems successfully restarted.

The 2023-2024 season is off to an active start as the Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE) lead team arrived at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station!

The 14th edition of the Arctic Futures Symposium is rapidly approaching!

The International Polar Foundation is excited to announce that Natacha Lippens and Michael Saverys have joined its board of directors this month.

The International Polar Foundation had a very strong presence at the 10th edition of the annual Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland last week. Representatives from IPF managed a booth and participated in a number of panel discussions during the three days of the popular annual conference.

It is with great sorrow that IPF mourns the loss of Alain De Waele, Member of the Board of the International Polar Foundation, and long-time supporter of the activities of the Foundation and the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station.

The International Polar Foundation is deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of our organisation’s co-founders, Hugo Decleir, an internationally respected glaciologist and Professor Emeritus at the Vrij Universitiet Brussel (VUB).

The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (Classe des Sciences)  has announced that it has selected Alain Hubert, Founder and President of the International Polar Foundation to receive one of the two Belgica Medals the body plans to award for the prize.  The Belgica Medal is awarded every 5 years.  This will be the twelfth time that it will be awarded since it was set up.

The call for submissions for the second annual Laurence Trân Arctic Futures Award have been opened in anticipation of the 14th annual Arctic Futures Symposium, which will take place on Tuesday, November 28th and Wednesday, November 29th at Town Hall Europe in Brussels' EU Quarter.