HeidelbergCement invites researchers, students and citizens to submit biodiversity projects in its quarries around the world.
The aim of this scientific and educational contest is to raise awareness of the organic value of mining sites and share new best practices with the scientific community, NGOs, authorities and our operating units.
Over 110 projects worldwide have been selected to compete in the 4th edition 2018 and win up to 30.000 Euro.
04 Jul 2018
Dear Quarry Life Award participants, With just a couple of months left of the research phase, it’s time to start thinking about your final report - it can be uploaded to the QLA website from 6th July on. The deadline for uploading your documents is 20th September 2018. The QLA team wishes you a productive summer in our quarries.
26 Jun 2018
Every website has to perform maintenance at some point or another. Now it`s time for the QLA websites. Unfortunately, maintenance requires taking our site offline for some time. We scheduled the maintance work for Thursday, 28th from 9.30 to 11.30 am CEST. Thank you for your understanding.
11 Jun 2018
The QLA participants have done a great job so far and are currently busy with carrying out their research! You can support and motivate them by voting for projects you particularly like.
After we talked about the principles of choosing a zoo for a visit, questions began to be asked about whether there are more suitable zoos besides the main Leningrad zoo in St. Petersburg and the region. Taking this opportunity, we would like to present you one magnificent center, which in our opinion is worth visiting and acquainting with animals. And by the way this is not advertising, the center is not commercial.
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После того, как мы рассказали о принципах выбора зоопарка для посещения к нам начали поступать вопросы о том, есть ли еще подходящие зоопарки помимо основного Ленинградского зоопарка в Санкт-Петербурге и области. Пользуясь случаем хотим представить Вам один великолепный центр, который по нашему мнению стоит посетить и познакомится с животными. И кстати это не реклама, центр не коммерческий.
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The honey is a by-product of our investigation. We asked for the laboratory screening of about 100 different types of pesticides and got a result… / Med je vedlejším produktem našeho výzkumu. Tak proč jej nevyužít k analýze pesticidů? Zadali jsme laboratorní testy asi 100 různých typů pesticidů a máme výsledek…
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The causative agent of anthrax is the Bacillus anthracis. And it wasn't found in soil samples from our quarry! About the danger of the disease - read on.
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