First year of the CURIOSOIL project
A project meeting was held in the Netherlands from 18 to 20 February 2025 to mark the first year of the CURIOSOIL project, which aims to awaken curiosity for a deeper understanding of the soil.
The meeting was attended by project partners from various European countries, including the Faculty of Environmental Protection, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Borut Vrščaj and Asst. Katja Črnec. The meeting took place at Wageningen University, which is one of the best universities in the world and has been voted the best university in the Netherlands for 20 years in a row. The student campus was also the most appropriate location for the project meeting, as the site is also the base of the »World Soil Museum«, which exhibits 80 soil monoliths from all over the world, with many more in the archives.
The partners’ meeting was mainly aimed at exchanging experiences and information on the progress of the work so far and planning the implementation of the tasks to be carried out in the upcoming year. Among other things, new teaching methods and teaching tools were designed. The partners were also given a demonstration of the operation of an artificial intelligence hologram called »Lexie«, which is being developed and adapted for future teaching support purposes.
On the third and final day of the meeting, a multisensory workshop was organised, which was also open to the public and attended by a total of 30 interested participants. The workshop allowed the perception of the soil with different senses such as sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. One of the activity stations was led by two of our colleagues, using paint and wax made from soil for drawing and creative purposes. At the end of the event, the participants confirmed that this type of experience is invaluable in understanding and creating a connection with the soil.
Prvo leto delovanja projekta CURIOSOIL
V času od 18. do 20.2.2025 je na Nizozemskem potekal projektni sestanek ob prvem letu izvajanja projekta CURIOSOIL, ki je namenjen spodbujanju radovednosti za poglobljeno spoznavanje tal.
Udeležili so se ga projektni partnerji iz različnih evropskih držav, med njimi sta bila tudi sodelavca Fakultete za varstvo okolja, izr. prof. dr. Borut Vrščaj in asist. Katja Črnec. Sestanek je potekal na Univerzi v Wageningu, ki je ena izmed najboljših univerz v svetovnem merilu in že 20 let zapored izvoljena za najboljšo univerzo na Nizozemskem. Študentski kampus pa je bilo tudi najprimernejše mesto za projektno srečanje, saj se na lokaciji nahaja »World Soil Museum« (Svetovni muzej tal), ki razstavlja 80 monolitov tal s celotnega sveta, še mnogo več pa jih hranijo v arhivu.
Srečanje partnerjev je bilo namenjeno predvsem medsebojni izmenjavi izkušenj in informacij o poteku dosedanjega dela ter načrtovanju izvedbe zastavljenih nalog v prihodnjem letu. Med drugim so zasnovali tudi nove metode poučevanja in učne pripomočke. Partnerji so bili deležni tudi demonstracije delovanja holograma umetne inteligence, imenovanega »Lexie«, ki se razvija in prilagaja za namene pomoči poučevanja v prihodnosti.
Tretji in s tem zadnji dan srečanja je potekala multisenzorična delavnica, ki je bila odprta tudi za javnost in se je je udeležilo skupno 30 zainteresiranih. Delavnica je omogočala zaznavanje tal z različnimi čutili, kot so vid, sluh, tip, vonj in okus. Eno izmed postaj, kjer so za namene risanja in ustvarjanja uporabili barvo in voščenke izdelane iz tal, sta vodila naša sodelavca. Udeleženci so ob koncu dogajanja potrdili, da so tovrstne izkušnje neprecenljive pri dojemanju in ustvarjanju povezave s tlemi.