On 5-6 November 2024, the EC1 Science and Technology Centre in Lodz will host the next national conference ‘Młodzi o Klimacie. For the fourth time, young people attending high schools together with their teachers are invited to take part in the event.
The aim of the conference, whose content partner is the University of Lodz, is to provide a forum for young people and experts to discuss climate change, which is the greatest challenge of modern times. Young people will have the opportunity to present, in the form of papers or posters, content that is important to them based on reliable sources. Scientists from the University of Lodz and students from the student science clubs of the University of Lodz involved in the issue of global warming will provide ample evidence that climate change is caused by human activity. The event will be attended by, among others, Prof. Krzysztof Pabis, from the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, who is the University of Lodz Vice-Rector for Popularisation of Science and Education.
The conference programme will include events created by the community of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz and the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Lodz, such as:
Workshop: Let's Change Our Cities Together – workshops on planning blue-green infrastructure
Date and time: 5 November 2024 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
"The water crisis is increasingly affecting the people of Poland. Progressive climate change and numerous negligent acts have led to a situation where both the quality and quantity of available water are under threat. So how can we reverse the negative trends in our cities? During the workshop, you will discover modern blue-green infrastructure – our tool in adapting cities to global warming. You will be able to feel like designers, organising the space of cities ready for the global climate crisis."
Chaired by: Dr Paweł Jarosiewicz, mgr Aleksandra Chamerska, mgr Konrad Budziński, Kamil Osumek, lic. Dagmara Radziszewska, lic. Anna Wieczorek, Department of UNESCO Chair on Ecohydrology and Applied Ecology, Student Science Club for Ecohudrology, University of Lodz
Lecture: Bad Climate for the Ooceans
Date and time: 6 November 2024 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
"What if I told you that your children would never see a blue whale, that they would never be able to go on holiday to dive in Australia admiring coral reefs and never get to know the taste of sea fish?, Thousands of other species that you are not even aware of will disappear along with the disappearance of blue whales. Despite the fact that climate change has become our everyday reality, many people still do not notice its impact on the nature around us. We look even less often at the changes that threaten the inhabitants of the seas. The bad climate for the oceans has persisted for many years. Meanwhile, the marine richness of our blue planet disappears silently every day. There are no fires raging in the depths, as we have recently observed in Australia. However, they are suffering from changes in temperature, melting glaciers and water acidification caused by the increasing content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Alarming forecasts say that thousands of marine organisms will become extinct before we are able to discover and describe them. They will disappear unnoticed. The ocean depths are an inaccessible and mysterious world for us. It is enough to recall that the highest mountain in the world – Mount Everest – is conquered by several thousand people every year, while the real abyss of the Mariana Trench has been visited by only 27 daredevils. Scientists have barely managed to scratch the seabed with a teaspoon, and in a moment, they may lose the object of their research. Entire ecosystems may be destroyed. I invite daredevils who want to discover the secrets of the undersea world to sail 2,000 miles under the sea in the footsteps of the greatest climate threats."
Speaker: dr hab. Krzysztof Pabis, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz, Vice-Rector for Popularisation of Science and Education
Workshop: Climate Citizens' Panel in My City, at My School
Date and time: 6 November 2024 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
One of the objectives of the workshop is to familiarise its participants with the idea, organisation and proceedings of the citizens' panel, and then to activate students for action against climate change in their immediate environment – school, city. The meeting will be divided into three main blocks:
- Mitigation and adaptation to climate change – difficult words, simple actions,
- Citizens' panel – idea and genesis,
- Climate citizens' panel “in a nutshell” – deliberation in practice.
Chaired by: dr hab. Tomasz Jurczak, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Dr Kamil Brzeziński, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, Dr Agnieszka Rzeńca, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz.
Topics of the papers on climate change and climate catastrophe, will cover one of the following thematic blocks:
- Climate and water,
- Climate and economy,
- Climate and biodiversity,
- Climate and city,
- Climate and science,
- Climate and everyday life.
Good practices and actual climate actions undertaken at the school of the submitting author(s) will constitute the main topic of the posters.
The conference is held under the honorary patronage of: the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the Minister of Climate and Environment, the Minister of Education, Hanna Zdanowska, the Mayor of Lodz, the Rector of the University of Lodz and the Rector of the Lodz University of Technology.
The event partners: University of Lodz, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego and the Digital Dialogue Association
Source: EC1 Science and Technology Centre
Edit: Communications and PR Centre, University of Lodz