The Republican stage of the international ecology olympiad will be held in Vitebsk with the participation of teams from 9 universities

March 9, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Ten teams from 9 Belarusian universities will take part in the republican qualifying round of the international student оlympiad "Ecological Safety", which will be held on March 10-12 at the Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the International State Ecological University named after A.D. Sakharov. About 50 students studying in environmental specialties will gather in Vitebsk. The оlympiad program covers issues of ecological, radiation and energy safety, environmental monitoring, urbanization, major environmental threats in the modern world, as well as possible ways and methods to reduce environmental risk. The event will be held in two stages (theoretical and practical), during which participants will have to demonstrate their level of knowledge by solving tasks and tests, as well as propose a practical solution to an environmental problem. Students who show the highest results in the individual competition will have the right to represent Belarus as part of the national team in the international round of the оlympiad, which will be held in May 2011 in Minsk. In addition to the Belarusian team, teams of students from universities in Russia and Ukraine will take part in the оlympiad. The international student оlympiad "Ecological Safety" was established as a form of promoting environmental knowledge among youth. The goals of the оlympiad are to improve the quality of specialist training, popularize environmental knowledge, create conditions for supporting gifted young people, and form a personnel reserve in the field of environmental protection for research, project, scientific and production activities. The оlympiad is organized by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus and the International State Ecological University named after A.D. Sakharov, which is the basic organization of the CIS countries for environmental education. -0-