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.
20 Aug 2018
The countdown is on! The deadline for submitting the final Report is only one month away.
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.
Drone shot some photos on 26 July. - Quelques photos ont été faites avec un drone le 26 juillet 2018.
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Nous n'avions pas eu l'occasion de faire partager notre passion "visuellement" auprès des salariés de l'usine et de la carrière. C'est chose faite auprès des petits comme des grands ! We did not have the opportunity to share our passion "visually" with the employees of the factory and the quarry. It's done !
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Work is complete on the new artificial Sand Martin bank at Grange Top Quarry and the first birds have been seen checking it out.
Read moreTeam Mimosa comes your way again with the next phase of fieldwork: Gathering and Transplanting of Mimosa pudica.
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