The Science-Technology Park is to open in Swierk, near Warsaw, in December 2013. An agreement concerning financing the investment from EU funds was signed in Warsaw. The EU is to finance also the development of technology using radiation. The cost of both investments is estimated at PLN 90 million, with EU funding is to cover PLN 76.5 m.

A conference on co-operation between business and science and entrepreneurs’ expectations was held in Warsaw. Andrzej Kurkiewicz, a representative of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education presented the results of a study on expectations the job market has toward universities of technology.

The Skeek Team from Thailand won first prize in the most Software design category of the Imagine Cup 2010 in Warsaw.

A team from the Gdansk University of Technology has won an international regatta of boats powered by solar energy the Frisian Solar Challenge in Holland. A team of two covered the distance of 220 km in 19 hours 25 minutes 8 seconds.

The Medical University in the central Polish city of Lodz and the Lodz Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have founded a Biotechnology Park.

A new portal has been inaugurated to promote scientific research in Poland and the work of individual R&D units and help them contact companies and business environment.

Maria Orłowska, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education outlines measures taken to raise and promote innovation.

Another science picnic organised by the Copernicus Science Centre is Schedule for June 12. Held in the Edward Rydz Smigly park in Rozbrat Street in Warsaw it will feature exhibitions by some 220 institutions from 21 countries displayed in over two hundred tents.