Despite her elbow injury, Annemiek van Vleuten (the Netherlands) took an incredible victory in the women’s elite road race at the UCI Road World Championships (including Women Under-23) in Wollongong, Australia. The silver medal was won by Lotte Kopecky (Belgium), and the bronze medal by Silvia Persico (Italy). Polish representative Katarzyna Niewiadoma was 8th. During the championships, the Polish team consisted of Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Karolina Kumięga, Marta Lach, Agnieszka Jaskulska, Dominika Włodarczyk, and Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka.
The European Forum for New Ideas is one of the largest conferences in this part of the continent, dedicated to global trends, new ideas and the future of Europe. Business representatives, charismatic speakers, leaders and policy-makers as well as authorities from the world of culture and science discuss the most important challenges for business and societies in a changing world, global trends and the future shape of the European Union during dozens of events, panel discussions, open meetings, counterpoints or night owl discussions. EFNI at the Radisson Blu hotel in Sopot will take place from Wednesday, October 12 to Friday, October 14.
The International Festival of Comics and Games has been organized since 1991 and became the biggest comics event in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe. Until 1998 it functioned as the Polish Convention of Comics Artists. Above all, the festival is a place where comics & electronic interactive media creators and fans can meet. The 30th edition of the festival in the Expo-Lodz hall was visited by over 20 000 people. This year, the 33rd edition of the MFKiG will take place on September 24-25.
The "I TOUCH=I WIN" (Polish: "Dotykam=Wygrywam") campaign to prevent breast cancer and promote wearing a proper-fitting bra was inaugurated on September 20 at the Hotel Double Tree by Hilton in Warsaw. Breast cancer in Poland ranks first among malignant neoplasms in women. The data from National Cancer Registry (Poland) show that it accounts for as much as 25% of all diagnosed cancer cases. In 2020, the disease was diagnosed in 24,644 women, out of whom 8,805 died.
The world's most important event in the space sector takes place from September 18 to September 22 at the Parc des Expositions in Paris with the participation of companies and organizations from around 70 countries. Over 7 thousand people take part in the meeting, including heads of space agencies, astronauts, engineers, students, and business representatives. 25 Polish companies will present their products at the stand of the Polish Space Agency at the congress.
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 87 Availability Zones within 27 geographic regions. Amazon now has 202 renewable energy projects in North America, 117 in Europe, 57 in Asia and the Pacific, one in the Middle East, one in Africa, and its first project in South America. The total renewable energy projects enabled by Amazon will generate 50,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean energy - or enough to power 4.6 million U.S. homes each year. Amazon announces 71 New Renewable Energy Projects Globally, Including Firsts in Brazil, India and Poland.
In 2021, Zbigniew Rokita was awarded the 2021 Nike Literary Award for the book “Kajś. A Tale of Upper Silesia”. On Wednesday, September 28 at 6:00 p.m. in the Młyn restaurant, he will meet with readers from Gniezno as part of the "Polish language is always up to date" project, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
The victory at Grunwald took on a symbolic dimension and became of national value, permanently etched in the Polish conscience and memory. The Museum of the Battle of Grunwald started its activity on the day of unveiling the Grunwald Monument in July 1960, on the 550th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald. Documents and artifacts of the battle are included in the museum's collection. The relicts consist of mainly maps, plans, drawings, photographs, and a large number of original copies of medieval weapons. Important exhibits are copies of the Polish, Lithuanian and Teutonic banners, reconstructed based on iconographic sources. Recently, the museum has been renovated and relocated thanks to various donations.
On Sunday, September 18, the International Open Baltic Cup Regatta ended in Aarhus, Denmark. 10 Polish junior crews took part in the sports meeting. The regatta lasted 2 days and our Polish junior rowers won 14 medals in total.
The Hestia Literary Journey competition awards authors of classic forms: novels, graphic novels, and short stories - written with young readers and readers (10-15 years old) in mind. Titles that have a chance to remain in the canon of children's and youth literature for a long time are selected. However, only books written in Polish and published in Poland in the previous year are eligible for the competition. The second edition of the competition for the best book for children and teenagers was won by "State of Entanglement" written by Roksana Jędrzejewska-Wróbel, published by Wydawnictwo Literackie. The author received the prize of PLN 50,000.
Agnieszka Smoczyńska's movie entitled “The Silent Twins" won the top Golden Lions award at the 47th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia on Saturday night. As many as 20 films were qualified for the Main Competition. Among them there were 6 full-length directing debuts and 2 directors' second films. "The Silent Twins" is the director Agnieszka Smoczyńska full-length debut in English.
The Białowieża National Park organized another, already the 26th, Exhibition of Fungi of the Białowieża Forest last week. Its ceremonial opening took place on Saturday, September 17 at 12:00 at the Nature Education Center of the Białowieża National Park in Białowieża. This year, at the exhibition, Mr. Marek Wołkowycki presented the lecture "Bladeless arboreal mushrooms of the Białowieża Forest". Over a hundred species of arboreal fungi occurring in the Białowieża Primeval Forest could be seen at the exhibition. The fungi have been collected in the last days in the forest. Also, some speciments came from the collections of the Institute of Forest Sciences of the Białystok University of Technology.
Much of the world's amber comes from the Baltic Sea area of northern Europe. Amber is a treasure of Poland and an unusual souvenir from a holiday trip on the Polish coast. Therefore, Gdańsk is often described as the capital of amber. It is a city full of boutiques and galleries that sale amber of all shapes and sizes. Besides the Museum of Amber, it is worth visiting the St. Bridget’s Basilica and see the breathtaking amber altar and monstrance which is the largest monument made of amber in the world.
On September 16 - 17, at Silesian Stadium in Chorzów, one of the largest sports events addressed to seniors took place. It was the 14th National Olympiad of senior citizens' associations and a University of the Third Age. The Olympics entitled "The Third Age to start" is an event of international importance, which promotes health and active leisure for the age-group 50 and older. It also teaches mature people how to take care of their bodies and physical fitness and helps to develop healthy habits.
20 students, PhD students, young researchers and innovators from all over Poland participated in the final of the Falling Walls Lab Warsaw competition, which took place on last Thursday at the Warsaw University of Technology. Early detection of water pollutants, the search for new methods for the initial diagnosis of diseases or the challenges resulting from climate change are the topics that dominated the competition for young scientists. 20 representatives of the academic world presented their ideas on how to repair the world around us. Everyone had only three minutes to play. The international jury awarded the first place ex aequo to two female scientists. Agnieszka Żuchowska from the Warsaw University of Technology interested the audience in a new model of early disease detection. Kiranmai Uppuluri, representing the Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics of the Łukasiewicz Research Network, presented an idea for a tool to control the level of pollution in water bodies.
"The share of the shadow economy in the online gambling market in Poland has decreased from 80 to approx. 25 percent over 4 years. This is the effect of the changes in the gambling law in force since 2017, as well as the activities of the National Revenue Administration and the increasingly better offer of legal operators", the participants of the debate on the fight against illegal gambling stated during the Economic Forum in Karpacz.
Simulated racing or racing simulation, commonly known as simply sim racing means racing game software that attempts to accurately simulate auto racing, complete with real-world variables such as fuel usage, damage, tire wear and grip, and suspension settings. 24 leading Esports drivers from Poland will compete in the most important digital motorsport competition - Poland Porsche Esports Sprint Challenge, held as part of the Polish championship. This year the organizers have prepared a record pool of prizes worth PLN 40,000! The races will be broadcast live on ELEVEN SPORTS TV.
The bodies of victims of Russian terror are being exhumed from a mass burial site in Izium, an eastern Ukrainian city. The TV Republika reporter is at the site of the execution and recorded the scene of a crime committed by Putin's barbarians. The journalist's materials can be seen on the Niezalezna.pl portal and TV Republika on the "Today" news service at 6:30 p.m. today.
