The Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport Piotr Gliński announced the launch of the "Certificate for Small Bookshops" program - by the end of the year, small bookshops will receive a total of PLN 3 million. One entity will be able to receive funding up to 30,000 PLN, incl. for rent or business promotion.

The 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Polish Franciscan Father Maksymilian Kolbe in the German Auschwitz camp falls on Saturday. The monk gave his life for his fellow prisoner Franciszek Gajowniczek. He was killed in a starvation bunker on August 14, 1941.

"So far away, and yet so close ..." is the title of the 17th Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival. The inauguration of the event - during which Moniuszko's "Verbum nobile" will be performed - is today in Warsaw.

Lotos Group has announced its financial results for Q2 2021. Thanks to the effective the Company reported a net profit of PLN 1.06 bn. The Gdańsk refinery has used up 100% of its processing capacity.

The historic outbuilding that is part of the manor and park complex of the Jan Kochanowski Museum in Czarnolas (Masovian voivodeship) will undergo renovation and conservation works. The project received funding from the EU. An agreement was signed on this matter.

At the age of 91, Maj. Julian Kulski "Goliath", a volunteer for the Warsaw Uprising, decorated with the Cross of Valor, died, "Don't forget about us" Foundation reported today on Twitter.

We are proud to announce that the project of the Monument of the Presidents of Greater Warsaw - Stefan Starzyński and Julian Kulski received today the official building permit!, the Kulski Foundation informed on its profile.

Nearly 100 cultural events, including exhibitions, classes, theater, and film screenings prepared by institutions run or co-directed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, will commemorate the 101st anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw. The events will take place both in large cities and small towns.

Poland, along with Hungary, Spain, Italy, and Russia, is ranked in the top 20 most attractive corporate investment destinations for companies from the life sciences sector, i.e., biotechnology, genetics, pharmacy, according to a report published on Monday by Colliers.

Plants that absorb nutrients from fertilizer more slowly and in a controlled way are in better shape than plants fertilized conventionally, shows a study by scientists at the AGH University of Science and Technology. They optimized the production of controlled-release fertilizer (CRF) and tested how it works on lacy phacelia, oats, and millet.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki responded to the doubts of the US Secretary of State, who yesterday posted an entry on Twitter expressing "deep concern"...

President Andrzej Duda posthumously awarded the architect, conservator of monuments Janusz Władysław Smólski with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the website of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland announced.

Over 230 titles, incl. new films by Asghar Farhadi, Céline Sciamma, and Radu Jude will be presented at the 21st New Horizons International Film Festival in Wrocław. The event under the slogan "A Fresh Start for Cinema" will last until August 22 in the capital of Lower Silesia and online until August 29.

A documentary is made about the search for St. Maximilian Kolbe. A history lover, an inhabitant of the Oświęcim region Dagmar Kopijasz, follows in his footsteps, with a pre-war photograph of a Franciscan in his hand, said the director Gabriela Mruszczak.

With a travel voucher, we go for longer and spend more - according to a report of the Noclegi. pl website. Reservations made under the government program are on average 25% more expensive and include as much as a week-long vacation, which is three days longer than the one without the voucher.

Investments and construction are the locomotives that pull the economy forward, according to Statistics Poland. As a result, housing is already better off than it was before the epidemic. Developers start more investments because Poles report high demand for them.

In the third quarter of this year, we bet on used cars. Slightly cheaper cars are becoming more and more popular, according to a survey commissioned by Volkswagen Financial Services.

Deputy Minister of Education and Science Dariusz Piontkowski announced today that the vaccination coverage of teachers and academic staff in Poland is around 70...