The Science Festival
The Science Festival in Warsaw was established in 1996 on the initiative of scientific communities by the Rector of the University of Warsaw, the Rector of the Warsaw University of Technology, and the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The first edition of the Festival took place in 1997. Since 1998, the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences has been organizing open lectures and workshops as part of the Science Festival.
| The Science Festival website |
The Science Picnic
The Science Picnic was created thanks to the initiative and ideas of Professor Łukasz Turski from the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Professor Tadeusz Skośkiewicz from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and employees of Polish Radio: Krystyna Kępska-Michalska and Robert Firmhofer (since 2006, the director of the Copernicus Science Center).
The first Science Picnic (as the Science Picnic of Polish Radio BIS) took place on June 14, 1997, at the Market Square of Nowe Miasto. At this Picnic, the booth with liquid nitrogen from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where Professor Skośkiewicz was helped by students from the School of Exact Sciences, stood out. Roses in liquid nitrogen became a symbol of several subsequent Science Picnics. More information about the current picnic can be found in the link.
| The Science Picnic website |
