Institute of Polar Research as a private institution, intending to gather scientists from different fields who had a passion for polar exploration. He obtained funding for the institute's research projects from private sponsors, the Romanian government and European sources. After 1995 he returned to heading Romanian polar expeditions. Negoiţă trained for more than a year to make an expedition to the North Pole on skis during a Russian "last degree" research expedition. This training improved his physical condition to the point that he was able to ski for hundreds of kilometers, resist the cold and pull a sled that weighed . He trained eight hours a day pulling two tires to simulate the sled he would take to the North Pole. On April 21, 1995, Negoiţă became the first known Romanian explorer to reach the North Pole on skis during the Russian expedition. Antarctic expeditions After the North Pole expedition Negoiţă turned his attention to Antarctica. Antarctica is the only harsh environment on the planet. Here we find the driest atmosphere on the planet, this provide high quality astronomical studies, atmospheres studies, research regarding climate changes, magnetism research. Over Antarctics lies the largest ozone hole, research regarding pollution can be made at this place, from here we can sample a lot of meteorites, find new minerals, some with special qualities that can become source for new technology. Antarctic is also a “biological laboratory“, extremely interesting for wild life research. During his Antarctic expeditions, Negoiţă earned a doctorate in chemistry by defending a PhD thesis titled "Pollution control in Arctic and Antarctic areas". In December 2000 Romanian President Emil Constantinescu awarded Negoiţă the Star of Romania Medal - degree of officer. Founder of the first Romanian research station in Antarctica Negoiţă's began the groundwork for building a Romanian exploration station in Antarctica in 1997, when he began to publish research essays at the Antarctic Treaty, of which Romania became a member in 1971. In 2000 Negoiţă gave the opening speech at the Antarctic Treaty meeting in London, before representatives of 43 countries. The goal of the meeting was to regulate naval rules in the Antarctic Seas, and the main arguments centred on the Romanian, American and British essays. Negoiţă presented the study “Directions concerning maritime Antarctic transport and environment pollution”. At the 2005 Antarctic Treaty meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, an agreement was signed with Australia that gave the Romanian Antarctic Foundation