Warsaw – The University of Padua and the Academy of Sciences of Poland have signed a collaboration agreement that provides for the exchange of students and researchers and the joint pursuit of multidisciplinary research, specifically between the Polish Institute of Geophysics and Oceanography and the Italian Departments of Industrial Engineering, Biology, Comparative Biomedicine and Food. Recently, two Polish lecturers – professors Pawel Rowinski and Janusz Pempkowiak, respectively director of the Department of Geophysics and of the Department of Oceanography – presented in Padua the research activities carried out in the Polish Arctic station “Stanislaw Siedlecki”, located on the island of Spitbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago. (9Colonne)