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- 🏅Prof. Marek Więckowski has been honoured with the Prof. Jerzy Kondracki Medal! Prof. Więckowski was recognised for his outstanding contributions to the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at Warsaw University 🌳🏙️ Congratulations Marek, and thank you to Warsaw University 🙌
- New paper by our team led by Mateusz Kramkowski! 🎉 The study reveals hundreds of relict thermokarst lakes (RTL) formed after the Vistulian ice retreat — shedding new light on the Late Pleistocene of Poland. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- 🚨 New publication in Journal of Rural Studies! What happens when urban newcomers meet long-rooted rural residents? ✍️ Maria Bednarek-Szczepańska & Krzysztof Janc 💡 Funded by @NCN_PL www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #igipzpan #knowledgetransfer #urban #rural
- 🎥 New on our YouTube channel! 👉 How migration reshapes Poland? Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf26... #igipzpan #migration #Poland #YouTube
- 🌍 The our team actively represented us at the #EUGEO Congress 2025 in #Vienna 👩🔬👨🔬 Our colleagues chaired sessions, presented research on rural transitions, living labs, and political behaviour in small towns — sharing insights from international & @ncn.gov.pl - funded projects.
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- 📍 Lublin | The Polish Geography Congress 2025 “Geography without Borders” — the largest event for geographers in Poland. IGSO PAS was strongly represented by our colleagues 😀 👏 Huge thanks to the organizers! 🌍 #Geography
- 📍 Timișoara, Romania | The Regional Conference on Geomorphology “Geomorphology for Society: Challenges and Opportunities” has begun, with 249 participants from 33 countries. IGSO PAS is represented by colleagues from Kraków & Toruń! 😀 🌍 #Geomorphology
- 📰 New article out! One lake—three worlds for plankton: a case of dystrophic lakes published in Hydrobiologia. Insights into plankton diversity in dystrophic lakes. 🌊🦠 Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Dominika Łuców has just completed a 10-month research fellowship at @Carleton_U 🇨🇦, under the #NAWA #Bekker program 🔬😀 Her work on #TestateAmoebae in #Newfoundland led to exciting results — including a potential new species! #WomenInScience #InternationalResearch
- 🆕 New article by Łukasz Sobechowicz et al. in The Anthropocene Review: 👉 With or against the #river? Tracing changes & relationships between social & ecological systems on the central #Vistula #floodplain (last 200 yrs) 🌊 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Anthropocene #igipz
- Ewa Karolina Korcelli-Olejniczak & Karolina Witeska-Chmielewska published in European Planning Studies Case study: Radom subregion & the unique “chocolate flint” 🪨 📖 doi.org/10.1080/0965... 🎥 www.youtube.com/@igipzpan #ruralinnovation #livinglab #RUSTIK #chocolateflint #ruraldevelopment #IGiPZPAN
- HOW DOES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION LOOK IN RURAL POLAND? 🌾🧑🤝🧑 Study: 👉 No demographic link in strategic planning 👉 Strong ties of spatial planning with education & migration Read: sciendo.com/pl/article/1... #igipzpan #publicparticipation #spatialplanning #ruralareas #Poland
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- Łukasz Quirini-Popławski took part in #ICOHT2025 in Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾, presenting—together with colleagues from 🇵🇱—a paper on the digital documentation of built cultural heritage using GIS & mobile apps. 📽️ Watch our short video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoTf... #heritage #tourism #GIS #IGiPZPAN
- 🎉 We’re excited to share that Dr. Dominika Łuców received @NCN_PL #SONATINA 9 funding for her project on biodiversity and the use of freshwater testate amoebae for environmental reconstruction in Central Europe’s agricultural regions! 🌍 #NCN #ecology #TestateAmoebae #lake
- How does public participation work in rural #Poland? 📄 New article on involvement in rural development & spatial planning 📊 Key factors: education level & migration (spatial planning); weak links for strategic planning 🔗 sciendo.com/pl/article/1... #publicparticipation #spatialplanning #ruralareas
- New publication from IGiPZ PAS in European Planning Studies (Q1, IF 3.2): 📄 On inducing innovation in endogenous rural development 📍 Living Lab experiment in Radom subregion, chocolate flint as a local asset 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0965... #RUSTIK #ruralinnovation #IGiPZPAN
- 📣 Z radością informujemy, że Przegląd Geograficzny został przyjęty do bazy #DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)! To potwierdzenie jakości i transparentności naszego czasopisma oraz szansa na większą widoczność publikowanych prac. Dziękujemy! #openaccess #IGiPZPAN
- 📢 ZAWIADOMIENIE | 17 lipca 2025 r. o godz. 13:00 w IGiPZ PAN (Warszawa, Twarda 51/55) odbędzie się publiczne kolokwium habilitacyjne dr Marii Bednarek-Szczepańskiej. Temat: rola społeczności lokalnych w planowaniu kontrowersyjnych inwestycji na wsi. #Geografia #Habilitacja
- Did you know? 🇵🇱 hosts 2 of 14 European Living Labs in the RUSTIK project! Together with partners, IGiPZ PAN explores how rural areas respond to 21st-century challenges. 🎥 Watch the video: youtu.be/algeiY5pmqs More info: rustik-he.eu #RuralSustainabilityTransitions #RUSTIK #IGIPZPAN
- 🏆 How will heat and thin air affect match results? As the #FIFA Club World Cup 2025 hits the semifinals, it’s a good time to ask: How will climate impact players — now and at the 2026 World Cup? 🌍⚽ 🎥 Watch the video summary: 👉 youtu.be/DXaE2jQwi_A #HeatStress #climate
- "Wandering in goldenrod!" 🐝🌿 First stage of fieldwork for the SolidES project is done! We studied invaded & uninvaded ecosystems in Mazovia, assessing soil, biomass & biodiversity. 🎥 Watch our video: youtu.be/mZtUjX9kv94 #invasivespecies #ecosystemservices #naukadlaspoleczenstwa #igipzpan
- 📍 Our team is at the 30th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology in Riga 🇱🇻! Aliaksandra Sidarava, Anna Grzelak & Michał Konopski presented findings from the WEAVE project on spatial inequalities in CEE. 👉 esrs2025.rsu.lv #ESRS2025 #WEAVE #ruralstudies
- 🎉 Congrats to Zofia Jabs-Sobocińska! She received the 3rd PTB Award for Young Researchers at the 60th PTB Congress in Katowice 🌿🏆 📸 Photo: Krzysztof Masztafiak #Botany #ScienceAward #Ecology
- 🌍 Our Climate Research team is presenting #CLIMPARK results at #ICUC12 in Rotterdam 🇳🇱 — the leading global forum on urban climate. Talks focus on greenery & thermal comfort in Central European cities. Research funded by @ncn.gov.pl under the OPUS program. #NCN #UrbanClimate #GreenCities
- We’re excited to announce our success in OPUS 28 + LAP/Weave (panel HS3)! Together with the Czech Academy of Sciences, Forest Research Inst. & Mammal Research Inst. PAS, we’ll explore how Scots pine shaped states, societies & landscapes in the 18th–19th c. 🌲🌍 PI (Poland): Tomasz Związek
- 🔍 What if everything you need was just a walk or bike ride away? Check out our new film on #CONIFER – an international project reimagining mobility for the #15minutecity with partners from 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇵🇹🇭🇺🇨🇭 🎥 Watch now ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXgX... #UrbanMobility #IGiPZPAN #ScienceForSociety
- 💥 Did you know landslides can reshape a river in just days? Jarosław Cebulski analyzed 5 landslides in the Outer Carpathians—see how they change river channels! 📽️ Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZ5... #landslides #geomorphology #Carpathians #IGiPZPAN #osuwiska
- 🇵🇹 We're at #AHTMM2025 in Faro! IGiPZ PAN researchers presented GIS-based research on changes in tourism accommodation in Krynica-Zdrój & Szczawnica during COVID-19. 🎥 Watch the short video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT1-... #IGiPZ #tourism #COVID19 #GIS #conference
- 🌿 Dominika sends greetings from ISTA 2025 at Brock University near Niagara Falls! 💦 She presented research on testate amoebae diversity in Newfoundland lakes (Bekker Program, NAWA) and a poster on peatland hydrology during the medieval Alnus decline (@ncn.gov.pl project) 🧪 #ISTA2025
- Tree genes as silent witnesses of 19th-century forestry? 🌲 New video on how past decisions shaped the genetics of Scots pine – and its climate resilience today. 🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/U2jUbWLr4OM 📄 Full study: doi.org/10.1525/elem... #Forests #Genetics #Climate #IGiPZPAN
- Our colleague, Tomasz Związek, has been awarded the Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists in the field of Socio-Economic Geography 💪🏆! A huge congratulations to Tomasz for this well-deserved recognition.👏🌍
- 🌍 Czym są początki koryt i jak powstają na obszarach suchych? Nasi badacze odkryli, że choć klimat ma znaczenie, to geologia terenu odgrywa kluczową rolę! 📽️ Zobaczcie krótki film na YouTube i poznajcie fascynujące wyniki tych badań: www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid... #geologia #igipz
- 📣 Coming Soon! 👉 A new title from AB Publishing House is on the way: "Nature and Landscape Conservation in Poland" Edited by: Assoc. Prof. Łukasz Zbucki, PhD Prof. Jerzy Solon, PhD Assoc. Prof. Jarosław Balon, PhD #WydawnictwoAkademiiBialskiej #science #geography #landscape #lanscape
- Just wrapped up the seminar, and we’ve put together a short video highlighting dr hab. Ariel Ciechański’s key insights on how the Bus Transport Development Fund is impacting transit networks in Beskid Niski and Bieszczady. Take a look! 🚌📊 #publictransport #bus Link: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AZ4...
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- Andrzej Affek greets you from his research stay at the University of Wisconsin–Madison 🇺🇸, where he's conducting a NAWA Bekker Programme project on using image recognition to study how microclimate variation affects wild pollinators and their pollination potential. 🌼🐝 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ietl...
- A new article ,,#Cladocera assemblages indicate environmental gradients of #lake #productivity and morphometry in central #Europe", has been published in #Boreas, by Izabela Zawiska et al. 💧👩🔬 #igsopas 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Przypominamy – Mapa roślinności potencjalnej Polski dostępna jest w wersji wektorowej na naszej stronie! 🌿🗺️ Sprawdź tutaj: www.igipz.pan.pl/Roslinnosc-p... #MapaRoślinności #Polska #GIS #Ekologia #lasy
- 📍 June 3–5 | Joensuu, Finland 🇫🇮 4th Horizon Europe RUSTIK meeting — Cycle 3: Living Lab wrap-up, early results, and local policy insights for pilot areas. #RUSTIK #HorizonEurope #LivingLabs #RuralDevelopment #RUSTIKimpact
- 🆕 New paper alert! 🚨 "Quaternary non-karst caves in tills: A pilot study" by Sebastian Tyszkowski & team explores rare cave forms in glacial sediments 🧊🕳️ A unique geomorphological insight! 📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #geomorphology #Quaternary #research
- 🌳 4th WORLD CONFERENCE ON FORESTS & PARKS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH 🌍 On May in Luxembourg, Anna Kowalska presented insights from the #CLIMPARK project on how Warsaw’s parks help mitigate thermal stress. Inspiring talks, global networking & green urban vibes ➡️ www.igipz.pan.pl/project_pl/e... #fph2025 #ncn
- 📘 New publication from Routledge Taylor & Francis, edited by Jerzy Bański of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences (IGiPZ PAN). 🔗 www.routledge.com/Agricultural... #LandUse #Agriculture #Geography
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- New paper: Understanding Rural (Dis)Content. Methodological Approach for the Project ‘Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequality’. Part of a Polish-German-Czech project funded by @ncn.gov.pl #WEAVE-UNISONO. 👉 www.thuenen.de/de/thuenen-i...
- Magdalena Kuchcik & Kaja Czarnecka took their @ncn.gov.pl project on green spaces & urban (bio)climate to NYC & Miami 🌆🌴 Great talks at Columbia, The New School, West Point & U Miami — full of ideas, inspiration & future collabs 🌿 #UrbanClimate #NBS #NCN #climate #igipz #urban #climpark
- 📣 Check out our YouTube channel for the latest research and updates from the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, @polskaakademianauk.bsky.social! #igipz #igsopas 🔗 www.youtube.com/@igipzpan
- 📡 New article in Applied Geography: Hidden gateways to digital space—the spatial distribution of #Wi-Fi #networks in the context of #demographic structure in rural areas Among the authors are Marcin Mazur and Damian Mazurek from our institute. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Z radością informujemy, że prof. Przemysław Śleszyński i prof. Tomasz Komornicki zostali powołani do Naukowej Rady Statystycznej GUS na lata 2025–2029. Gratulujemy! 👏 Więcej: bip.stat.gov.pl/.../naukowa-...
- WEAVE-UNISONO: another project meeting! Researchers from IGiPZ PAN, Thünen Institute & Czech Academy of Sciences met in Warsaw to discuss spatial inequality in CEE. A study trip to Szydłowiec County included talks with local authorities & activists. Project funded by the @ncn.gov.pl :) #weave #NCN
- New in Catena! Channel head morphometry across a precipitation gradient — from semi-arid to arid climates. Among the authors: Małgorzata Kijowska-Strugała & Łukasz Wiejaczka. 🌍 #geomorphology #hydrology #Catena 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- 📣 Z radością informujemy, że dwa czasopisma wydawane przez IGiPZ PAN – Geographia Polonica oraz Przegląd Geograficzny – zostały właśnie przyjęte do prestiżowej bazy ERIH PLUS! 📚
