The SUA Envirocenter has been operating for a year, inviting you to an open day

The SUA Envirocenter at the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering has been serving university students, as well as high school and elementary school students, for a year. It focuses on education and awareness in the field of climate change and weather extremes.

Since the grand opening on April 19, 2024, 414 elementary and high school students have visited it as part of fourteen excursions. “We have prepared theoretical lectures on the topics of climate change or soil erosion for groups of students. After the lecture, the students tried measuring the density of water using a hydrometer, measuring the speed of flowing water, shaping the riverbed using various natural or artificial obstacles, or following the path of flowing water in the riverbed around stones that they could move themselves, thus changing the path,” informed Associate Professor Tatiana Kaletová from FHLE.

For university students and employees, domestic and foreign teachers and experts from practice prepared 13 lectures. In addition, the SUA Environmental Center Climate - Landscape - Information is also used for selected practical exercises in the subjects of biometeorology, hydrology, hydromechanics and integrated watershed management, and bachelor's theses of students of the landscape engineering study program are also solved there. Given its specific architecture, the program included the Days of Architecture 2024, within which the architectural solution and specifics of the space were presented to the visitors present by the architects of the building themselves. Over a thousand participants have been educated in the SUA Envirocenter so far. Its modern premises were also the venue for the Youth Science 2024 conference, a photo competition for Water Day, as well as a full-day program for students of the autumn school as part of the "Water Renovation in Ukraine" project, T. Kaletová explained.

A new groundwater simulation model has been added to the original equipment of this unique workplace. It can be used to monitor how the groundwater level changes when we increase the pumping of water from a well, or how lakes in the landscape are formed, or how the amount of groundwater in the soil profile is replenished.

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