
Inauguration of the academic year at the GeoPlanet Doctoral School
The inauguration of the academic year will take place on October 12, 2023 at 11 a.m., at the Institute of Geophysics and online (hybrid event). The inaugural lecture of the 2023/2024 academic year, titled “Poles together – missing link

Announcement of the fifth call for the PITHIA-NRF TNA program applications
PITHIA-NRF launches its fifth call to provide effective and convenient access to the best European research facilities for observations of the upper atmosphere, including the plasmasphere, ionosphere and thermosphere. The access is organised through the Trans-National Access (TNA) programme,

New Director of the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
On September 7, the new Director of the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN) is Piotr Orleanski, Ph.D., in accordance with the results of the competition, held by the Polish Academy of Sciences, Division

Start of the LOCALIENCE project
The Crisis Information Centre CBK PAN started realisation of the project “LOCALIENCE – Developing resilience against extreme weather threats at local level in Central Europe” on 1 April 2023. The overall aim of LOCALIENCE is to develop disaster response

Conference in Innovation in Disaster Risk Reduction
The Conference called Innovation in Disaster Risk Reduction, held on 9-11 of May in Krakow, will focus on current challenges and innovative risk management solutions, and is made possible through support from the EEA/Norway Grants, as a Polish-Norwegian bilateral

COLLARIS Network: COLLaborative network on unmanned AeRIal Systems is launched
Representatives of civil protection authorities at all levels, first responders, crisis management practitioners, and researchers interested in issues related to further development and operational use of UAS in their activities are cordially invited to join the COLLARIS Network initiatives

GeoPlanet School: 2022/2023 Inaugural Lecture
The inauguration of the academic year at the GeoPlanet Doctoral School will take place on October 11, 2022, at 11:00 a.m., online and will be streamed on YouTube. The inaugural lecture of the 2022/2023 academic year, entitled “Seeing the

CBK PAN solidarity with Ukraine
In view of Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine and its brutal violation of international agreements and standards binding in the civilized world, the Polish academic community strongly condemns the attack on our neighbor and the use of violence against it.

Zooming in on Europe: a new, high-resolution land cover map
Scientists at the CBK PAN have developed a fast new method to automatically classify land cover at high resolution. A prototype map of Europe has just been released under a contract with the European Space Agency. The new map

CBK PAN will help to intercept a comet from outside the Solar System
[Polish only] Europejska Agencja Kosmiczna (ESA) podjęła decyzję o budowie sondy Comet Interceptor, która „zaczai się” na jeszcze nieodkrytą kometę z krańców Układu Słonecznego lub innego systemu planetarnego. Po raz pierwszy w historii ESA kierownikiem jednego z eksperymentów misji będzie naukowiec z Polski.