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Following the great success of previous editions, the International Polar Foundation is happy to announce that the fourth edition of Arctic Shorts Film Evening is returning to the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts!

On Wednesday, October 19th, more than 500 students and space professionals gathered in Brussels for the third edition of Switch To Space, Belgium’s largest biannual space technology gathering.

On October 5th, the Reine Paola Foundation, in collaboration with the Dirk Frimout Foundation, awarded its Terre d’Avenir Prize at the Belgian Royal Palace.

This past Sunday, October 2nd, President and Founder of the International Polar Foundation Alain Hubert took part in the “Live Magazine for kids 2022” event organised by Live Magazine and hosted by the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels

On Wednesday, September 14th, Alain Hubert, President and Founder of the International Polar Foundation, joined the first event of the “Frites & Sciences” series.

On Monday, May 30th, IPF, Schneider Electric, and Venturi held an EU Green Week partner event in Brussels EU Quarter to showcase the technological achievements that allow the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica - the world’s first zero emission polar research station - and the Venturi Antarctica, the world’s first electric polar exploration vehicle - to reduce the environmental footprint of conducting polar research.

On Monday, May 30th, the International Polar Foundation (IPF), Schneider Electric, and Venturi will host an official EU Green Week 2022 partner hybrid event, Striving to Reduce the Environmental Footprint of Polar Research.

The International Polar Foundation together with APECS Belgium and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences are proud to present Nocturnes on Ice, a polar photography exhibition opening on Thursday, May 19th at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

The International Polar Foundation is happy to announce that Marie-Anne Coninsx, Former EU Ambassador at Large for the Arctic, has joined the Board of IPF Directors.

In February 2019, IPF Founder and BELARE Expedition Leader Alain Hubert assisted American artist Jessica Houston with the unique Letter to the Future project in which Alain placed a time capusule in the ice in Antarctica to be found by future generations a thousand years from now. The project is curently being exhibited at the Estonian Pavillion at the Venice Bienniale.