PROJECT MEETINGS

We officially opened the cooperation of UPJŠ, UzhNU and IDCR on 12.10. 2021 at the kick-off meeting. The online meeting was conducted through MS Teams. Present were members of the management of the research teams of all three partner institutions: Mariana Kolesárová, Svetlana Libová, Katarína Pezlarová, Henrieta Bajusová, Ivana Slepakova, Katarína Kimáková, Vladyslav Mirutenko, Yaroslava Hasynets, Tetiana Hrebeniuk, Roman Kish, Nataliya Kablak, Emilia Gludzyk, Olha Stehura. 

The subject of the meeting were the following agenda items:

• Introduction of the teams.
• Program rules - procurement, communication, visibility, INTEREG+ reporting.
• Project rules - grant agreement, partnership agreement, meetings, activities.
• Timeline.
• Discussion.

The expected outputs resulting from the grant contract and the partnership agreement were also the subject of the working meeting:

Set of training materials

• Guidance/manual for pupils (SK, UA)
• Guidance/manual for teachers (SK, UA)
• Guidance/manual for university students (EN)
• Guidance for professionals (EN)
• Document for the popularisation of scientific work (SK)
• Document for raising environmental awareness of all target groups (SK, UA)
• Guide to environmental issues for the public (EN)

Educational activities

• Workshops
• Educational eco-trainings
• Green event 

Virtual laboratory

Date and time: 28 January 2022, 10.00 - 11.00 a.m.
Online via MS Teams platform

Members of the project team UPJŠ: I. Slepáková, S. Libová, M. Kolesárová,
Members of the project team UzhNU and IDCR: Y. Hasynets, V. Mirutenko, E. Gliudzyk, N. Kablak, R. Kish, F. Kurtyak

Programme:
1. Monitoring - Educational materials and website.
2. Monitoring - Procurement.
3. Discussion.


Date and time: 9.11.2021 at 9.30 a.m.
Online via MS Teams platform

Members of the project team UPJŠ: I. Slepáková, S. Libová, H. Bajusová, K. Pezlarová,
Members of the project team UzhNU and IDCR: Ukraine: V. V. Mirutenko, N. Kablak, E. Glyudzik, F. Kurtiak, J. Hasynets, M. Krivtsova

Programme:
1. Review of the tasks from the kick off meeting
2. Others.

During the meeting the tasks assigned were checked and dates for the next planned activities were agreed:

• video conference, with the participation of experts (botany, zoology, microbiology) from all partners, will tbe held on 14.12.2021 at 10.00;
• biomonitoring since March 2022.

The other day in Košice, the partners summed up the results of methodological work and analyzed the first scientific monitoring studies of water resources in the border regions of Ukraine and Slovakia

Recently, scientists of the Uzhhorod National University - Yaroslava Hasynets, Dean of the Faculty of Biology, and Professor Maryna Kryvtsova - visited the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, where a working meeting of partners of the project "Environment for the future through scientific education", which is implemented in cooperation with Slovak colleagues, took place.

The meeting turned out to be productive both from an organizational and scientific point of view. The partners summed up the results of the methodical work and analyzed the first scientific monitoring studies of water resources in the border regions of Ukraine and Slovakia. After all, the topic of water quality, its sanitary condition and water ecosystems in the conditions of war and mass migration of the population of Ukraine is becoming especially relevant.

Representatives of UzhNU also visited scientific laboratories of microbiology, cell biology, and molecular biology at the University of Kosice.

During the discussion of the results, fresh ideas for expanding cooperation and new scientific areas of cooperation emerged.