June 2014 – Contest with the schools of the local communities for the trip to the Donau Auen National Park, Austria


As the ecological education begins at an early age, the LIFE FOR MARSH project’s team organizes in this period a contest addressed to the pupils of the schools in the communities of Harman, Prejmer, Sanpetru and Brasov (V-VI-VII-VIII Grades). The pupils were given a study support course with the essential information about the protected areas where the project is  implemented, the protected species, the LIFE NATURE + financing reasons, from which they were subsequently tested to establish the winning candidates, which will depart to the Donau Auen National Park, Austria. The trip will take place between the 26th and 29th of June. The activities planned comprise the visit of the Park’s Center, cruise on the Danube, camp fire, interactive presentations and activities, visit of the Zoological Garden and Schonbrunn Palace and of the city center in Wien. As a result of the selection process, there were chosen 11 pupils from the “Emil Racovita” Natural Science High-School Brasov, 11 pupils from the Gymnasium School of Prejmer and 10 pupils from each of the Harman and Sanpetru secondary schools. The students were tested also for English knowledge, as an eliminatory task. They will be accompanied by 10 professors and by part of the team of the project, in the whole trip.