Norwegian state visit in Poland
HRH King Harald V and HRH Queen Sonja of Norway visit Poland on an invitation of the Polish President, Bronisław Komorowski. The Royal Couple will spend the first two days (9-10 May) of the official state visit in Warsaw, the third day they will travel to Cracow.
On Thursday 10 May, President Komorowski and the King Harald V will open the conference Norway and Poland – Partners in Green Growth. Prof. Jozef Pacyna was invited to present subject „Practical implementation of clean coal technologies – an important step towards environment improvement”.
Interview with Professor Pacyna in “Przegląd Gazowniczy” magazine
We would like to inform that the interview with Professor Jozef Pacyna is published in the latest edition of “Przegląd Gazowniczy” quarterly magazine (March 2012).
The interview is available in Polish on publisher’s webpage.
Workshops of ZiZOZap project
Spring of year 2012 started succeeding cycle of ZiZOZap (Integrated system supporting management and protection of water reservoir) project workshops with participation of NILU Polska scientific team.
On 21st February scenarios for Goczałkowice reservoir work and using of data bases were subject of workshops. On workshops on 6th March state of research on underground waters and ecological factors of reservoir ecosystems quality were presented. On 13rd March ecotoxicological factors of ecosystems quality and implementation of data to reservoir models were discussed. Finally on workshops on Tuesday 20th March results of bottom sediment analysis and connections between hydrodynamic and quality-biological models of Goczałkowice reservoir were presented. See schedule of workshops (in Polish).
Conference “From research to operational monitoring and functional models of reservoir”
The Symposium and workshop on “From research to operational monitoring and functional models of reservoir” took place on 11 January 2012 at President’s office of University of Silesia, Katowice.
The main subject of the conference was summary of research studies conducted within the framework of research monitoring in years 2010-2011. All research groups as well as teams of scientific and strategic partners involved in ZiZOZap project (Integrated system supporting management and protection of water reservoir) attended in the conference.
NILU Poland was represented on conference by dr Damian Panasiuk. He presented results of the ZiZOZap project in oral presentation of “Tourism and recreation as conflict areas in running of the Goczałkowice Reservoir”. See presentation in Polish.
NILU and NILU Polska on International Trade Fair of Environmental Protection „POLEKO” 2011
On November 22-25 POLEKO International Trade Fair of Environmental Protection was held in Poznań.
NILU and NILU Polska have showed common offer by presentation of their achievements and possibilities of cooperation with potential Clients among other Norwegian companies in exhibition pavilion prepared by Innovation Norway under the patronage of Embassy of Norway in Poland. The second day of fairs, on 23 November was announced as “Norwegian Day”. The most important part of the day was seminar “Norwegian Technological Solutions in the Field of Environmental Protection”, which was opened formally by Ambassador of Norway in Poland, Enok Nygaard.
Then, Counselor of Embassy – Stein Inge Nesvaag presented information on “EOG and Norwegian Funds in the scope of environment protection”, concerning the scope and schedule of the introduction of the next tranche of financial mechanisms of European Economic Area (EEA) countries. After then the first session of Seminar “Climate protection” took place, which was moderated and conducted by Professor Wojciech Nowak. The first presentation of the session was “Practical use of clean coal technology in Polish energy sector” presented by Director of NILU Polska, Leszek Sebesta.
