Environmental research

Creation conditionsn for development and use of alternative local sources of energy through establishement of small plantations of fast growing willow and replacement of coal by biomas (willow chips, and wood waste in the first period of time) in school in Barcice. Activities undertaken: - estabkishement of small. family willow plantation in the Lower Vistula River Valley; - modernisation of heating system in school in Barcice (installation of a modern boiler for biomas); - 22 field workshops with demonstration for over 200 farmers on establishement of willow plantation and management (pest control, harvest); - seminar "Biomas as alternative source of energy" (over 100 participants, farmers, local administration, students); - creation webpage about biomas, willow plantation etc; - study visits to already existing small plantations near Kwidzyn; - workshops on alternative sources of energy for youth from vocational school of mechanisation and agrobusiness in Kwidzyn and for students of High Management School; - consultations with researchers from Warmia-Mazury University in Olsztyn;

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