Scientific Center the Polish Academy of Science

in Vienna

- Chronicle of events -

Topic: 
National Parks as macrolaboratories for ecological research
Lecturer: 
Assistent Professor. Dr. hab. Czeslaw Okolów - director of the national park of Bialowieza
Professor Dr. Bernd Loetsch - director of the nature-historical museum in Vienna
Number of participants: 30 persons, among them 9 Austrians 

   The seminar was organized by the Scientific center of the PAS in cooperation with the Natural History Museum 
in Vienna and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Austria. 

   The first part of the seminar took place on 22.5.2001 in the reading room of the library of the center of the PAS . 
The lecturers presented the scientific research, pursued in the National Park of Bialowieza in Poland 
(Assistant Professor Okolow) and in the National Park Donauauen in Austria (Professor Loetsch). 
Pic. 8 presents Prof. Okolow during his lecture, Pic. 9 shows some seminar participants, 
among them the ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Austria, Professor Dr. hab. Irena Lipowicz.

Pic. 8 Assistant Professor. Dr. hab. Czeslaw Okolów during his lecture.

Pic. 9    Some participants of the ecological seminar in the center of the PAS From left: Mgr Jerzy Baranowski, vice-director of the scientific center of the PAS,  Professor Dr. hab. Irena Lipowicz, ambassador of the Republic of Poland,  Minister Marek Rzeszotarski, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Austria.

    The second part of the seminar was organized by the Austrian delegation and took place in the 
Austrian National Park Donauauen, on 23 May 2001.The participants got acquainted with the National Park Donauauen and central research issues 

   At the end of the seminar, the Austrian and the Polish delegation decided the organisation of an ecological conference, to be organised by the Scientific center of the PAS