This Saturday, May 21, Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw will hold the 25th Science Picnic, the largest open-air scientific event in Europe.

The leitmotif of this year’s event is water. Picnic stands and tents will be located at the Copernicus Science Center at the Vistula Boulevards in Warsaw. 50 special guests will present their shows, workshops, experiments and lectures.

Polish Radio is announcing that the picnic participants will build boats, catch ice cubes, and create blooming paper flowers and fog catchers. Visitors will look at levitating water drops and peek inside them. They will be able to see the water directly from the Vistula River under the microscope and create their own lamps from glowing algae. The participants will be able to jump on the water, enter the big ear and see if the seismograph registers the stomping.

“Water is the subject of countless scientific studies all over the globe. They concern many areas of our knowledge – from philosophy, social research, history, through geophysics, hydrology, physics, mathematical modelling, geography, botany, agricultural and engineering sciences, to medicine and even astrophysics”, writes Prof. Paweł Rowiński and adds that the average bread-eater may not even realize that in order to make bread, water is needed. One loaf leaves a footprint of over 450 litres of water behind.

“It is worth getting to know the water better, its properties and all the fascinating phenomena associated with it”, adds Prof. Rowiński.

The Science Picnic of the Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Center is Europe’s largest outdoor science event. Its aim is to disseminate knowledge from various scientific disciplines by presenting interesting experiments and experiences as well as the latest achievements of modern scientists.

Adrian Andrzejewski