Kick-off of the Candela Foundation
Initiative
Beginning
The Candela Foundation was established on 25 February 2021 as a result of a crowdfunding campaign initiated by Michał Karpiński, Mihai Suster, Piotr Węgrzyn and Adam Widomski – alumni, staff members and PhD students of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, who met while working in the Student Associations of Optics and Photonics at the University of Warsaw, which has been supporting students and PhD students since 2010. The motivation to establish the foundation was the desire to use the experience gained and expand the scope of activities. People who have been actively working for the development of optics and photonics in Poland have been invited to cooperate. The first talks concerning the establishment of a new foundation took place in January 2020, and the work on creating a formula for the new organization began just over six months later in August 2020.
Calendar
18 January 2021
On that day, a crowdfunding campaign Help build a foundation which will support young scientists in Poland” was launched on the zrzutka.pl portal. In 10 hours from its launch the full amount was collected. The list of people who have supported the not yet existing Candela Foundation can be found on this page.
2 February 2021
25 February 2021
On that day, an entry appeared in the National Court Register for the Candela Foundation, enabling it to start its activities with full legal identity
1 April 2021
To był ostatni dzień akcji crowdfundingowej która doprowadziła do stworzenia Fundacji Candela. Lista osób które wsparły nas finansowo znajduje się poniżej. Udało się pozyskać 11 500 PLN co stanowi 143% pierwotnie założonej kwoty (8000 PLN).
Acknowledgements
Recognition of Donors
Graphene donors
Diamond donors
Filip Sośnicki
Jan Suffczynski
Danuta Węgrzyn
Jan Węgrzyn
Izabela Widomska
Jakub Wójcik
Gold donors
Support
The initiative to establish and build the Candela Foundation, from the very beginning met with the support of the scientific and industrial community. Leaders representing the leading organizations related to optics and photonics in Poland expressed their support by signing letters of support. We received letters from following organizations:
Centre of Optical Quantum Technologies (QOT), University of Warsaw,
represented by QOT Director – prof. dr hab. Konrad Banaszek – content of the letter (in Polish)
IEEE Photonics Polska,
represented by Chairmen – dr hab. inż. Patryk Urban – content of the letter (in Polish)
International Centre for Translational Eye Research (ICTER), Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS,
represented by ICTER Director – prof. dr hab. Maciej Wojtkowski – content of the letter (in Polish)
International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT), University of Gdańsk
represented by ICTQT Director – prof. dr hab. Marek Żukowski – content of the letter (in Polish)
National Laboratory for Photonics and Quantum Technologies,
represented by NLPQT leader – prof. dr. hab. Czesław Radzewicz – content of the letter (in Polish)
Polish Technological Platform on Photonics,
represented by President of the Board – dr Adam Piotrowski – content of the letter (in Polish)
Optics Section, Polish Physical Society
represented by Chairwomen of the Sectio – prof. dr hab. Ewa Weiner-Rączka – content of the letter (in Polish)
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
represented by Dean of Faculty of Physics – prof. dr hab. Dariusz Wasik – content of the letter (in Polush)