On 19 April, the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management of the Marie Curie-Skłodowska University hosted participants in the provincial stage of the 23rd edition of the nationwide competition "Getting to know Poland's Landscape Parks".
Speaking on behalf of the Faculty hosts were Prof. Wojciech Zgłobicki (Vice-Dean for Student Affairs) and Prof. Irena A. Pidek (Deputy Director of the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University), who welcomed the participants together with Paweł Łapiński, Director of the Lublin Landscape Parks Complex.
The "Getting to know Poland's Landscape Parks" competition is organised with the aim of broadening ecological, nature, landscape or historical knowledge among schoolchildren and young people, as well as making them more sensitive to issues relating to the protection of nature and the environment. The competition takes place in five stages: school, commune, park, provincial and national. The competition is aimed at sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade pupils from primary schools in communes located within the boundaries of landscape parks and their buffer zones.
Schools are represented in the competition by teams of three, who solve tasks concerning general knowledge of nature and knowledge of landscape parks.
Nationwide, 9,000 students from over 605 schools took part in the competition. In Lubelskie Voivodeship, 596 pupils from 45 primary schools entered the school stage this year, and 51 pupils from 17 schools qualified for the voivodeship stage. The best team of three selected at the provincial stage will represent our province at the national stage.
During a break to check the tests, the young people and their tutors participated in practical and field workshops entitled "With meteorology at your fingertips", conducted by staff from the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University: Anna Brzozowska-Junak, MA, Agnieszka Krzyżewska, PhD, and Mateusz Dobek, PhD.
A summary of the event on the Parks website is here.
Photo: M. Zembrzycki
