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Enhance biodiversity with your idea - Nature will be the biggest winner!

The Quarry Life Award is a scientific and education competition, takes place every three years and runs simultaneously at national and international levels. Its aim is to raise the awareness of the ecological value of extraction sites and sharing new best practices.  

Currently, biodiversity projects are carried out in our quarries around the world.

We will award international prizes up to € 30,000 in 2022.

71 Quarries
19 Countries
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Latest news from Quarry Life Award

News overview
10 Jun 2022

First jury visits underway

The national and international jury members visit our quarrying sites and learn more about the QLA projects from the participants.

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16 Feb 2022

International Jury announced

For the fifth edition of the Quarry Life Award, five International Jury members have been nominated to assess the projects for International Awards. They will work simultaneously with the national juries, but focusing on different evaluation criteria.

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02 Feb 2022

Blogs are open

The participants will update you with their blogs about the research conducted in our quarries.

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Project updates

Werkzeugkasten „Zeitreise Steinbruch“Germany

Steinbruch = ökologisch wertvoll?

Wir präsentieren die Ergebnisse zur ökologischen Wertigkeit: Wie hat sich die ökologische Wertigkeit des Steinbruchs durch die Veränderung der Habitatzusammensetzung über die Zeit hinweg entwickelt?

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05Jul
Werkzeugkasten „Zeitreise Steinbruch“Germany

Steinbruch = Diversität?

Wir präsentieren die Auswertung der Habitatdiversität: Wie hat sich die Habitatdiversität des Steinbruchs durch die Veränderung der Habitatzusammensetzung über die Zeit hinweg entwickelt?

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05Jul
Werkzeugkasten „Zeitreise Steinbruch“Germany

Steinbruch = Habitat-Mosaik?

Wir präsentieren die Ergebnisse der 1. Hypothese: Welche Habitate entstehen durch die Abbautätigkeit? Wie wandeln sich die Flächenanteile der Habitate?

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05Jul
Proposal for the continuation of the ecological renewal of the Olšany quarryCzech Republic

What is going to happen next?

As I hope it was clear from the previous articles, our project primarily deals with invasive and expansive plants, to which other parts of our work are also related. That's why we've got everything planned for the beginning of the summer.

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03Jul
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About the Quarry Life Award

The Quarry Life Award is a scientific and education contest proposed by HeidelbergCement and its subsidiaries. The contest aims at raising the awareness of the biodiversity value of quarrying sites and sharing new best practices with the scientific community, NGOs, authorities and HeidelbergCement‘s operating units. The Quarry Life Award aims at increasing the scientific understanding of the interaction between nature and quarries as well as contributing to global nature conservation goals in raising the awareness of the importance of biodiversity and bringing people closer to nature.

The contest is conducted every three years. However, the Covid-19 pandemic caused us to reschedule the launch of the 5th edition to May 2021.

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