Time table

Day One - Monday (20.06.)

9:00 - departure by bus from the IKAR hotel (WAU campus) Warsaw

12:30 - arrival to Kiermusy

12:30-15:00 - welcome and integration lunch - official (organisational and technical) opening of the SICourse, including: Have fun and gain a lot!!! speech, presentation of the course programme, handing out the course materials

15:00 - departure from Kiermusy to Biebrza National Park headquarters in Osowiec

16:00 - arrival to Osowiec

16:00-18:45 - official opening of the SICourse, including:

16:00 - 16:45 - general subject introductory: key-note lecture: Wetlands: what, why, how, when, what for...?

17:00 - 17:45 - general introductory to the SICourse in the Biebrza valley: lecture: Why SICourse in the Biebrza valley?

18:00 - 18:45 - general introductory to the area: lecture: Miracullous Biebrza National Park (by BNP managing director Mr Adam Sieńko)

19:00 - departure from Osowiec

19:30 - arrival to Goniądz and accommodation at the Bartek pension

Day Two - Tuesday (21.06.)

8:00 - breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 introductory lecture to the "Górny Basen" field trip

9:30 - departure to the field trip: "Górny Basen"
Time: up to 6.5 hours (including 3.5 hours of driving and 1 hour lunch break)

16:00 - 16:30 - refreshment break

16:30 - 19:00 - indoor session Participants Presentations part 1

16:30 - 17:20 - presentations (5 person)

17:20 - 17:30 - break

17:30 - 18:20 - presentations (5 person)

18:20 - 18:30 - break

18:30 - 19:00 - discussion

19:30 - dinner

Day Three - Wednesday (22.06.)

8:00 - breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 introductory lecture to the "Dolny Basen" field trip

9:30 - departure to field trip: "Dolny Basen"
Time: up to 6.5 hours (including 3 hours of driving and 1 hour lunch break)

16:00 - 16:30 - refreshment break

16:30 - 19:00 - indoor session Participants Presentations part 2

19:30 - dinner

Day Four - Thursday (23.06.)

8:00 - breakfast

9:00 - departure to field trip: "Basen Środkowy"
Time: up to 5 hours (including 1.5 hours driving)

14:00 - 15:15 - lunch

15:15 - 19:00 - indoor thematic session N^o 1 (lectures, exercises and discussion):
Introduction: Water-soil-vegetation relationships in the natural Biebrza wetlands

19:30 - dinner

Day Five - Friday (24.06.)

8:30 - breakfast

9:30 - 13:15 - indoor thematic session N^o 2 (lectures, exercises and discussion):
Hydrology and soil properties of organic wetlands: Biebrza as an example of relationships in wetlands - transition from natural to transformed

13:30 - 14:45 - lunch

14:45 - 18:30 - indoor thematic session N^o 3 - Part 1 (lectures, exercises and discussion):
Management and restoration of wetlands differing in the degree of human disturbance

19:30 - dinner

Day Six - Saturday (25.06.)

8:30 - breakfast

9:30 - departure to the field trip(s): "Pomiary" (possibly in groups)
Time: up to 3h (including 0.5 hour driving)

12:30 - 13:30 lunch

13:30 - 16:15 - indoor thematic session N^o 3 - Part 2 (lectures, exercises and discussion):
Management and restoration of wetlands differing in the degree of human disturbance

16:30 - 18:00 - evaluation and official closing of the SICourse

18:30 - till the last… - party "For the good memories"

Day Seven - Sunday (26.06.)

8:00 - breakfast

9:00 - departure from Goniadz

12:30 - arrival to the Central Railway Station (Warszawa-Centralna)

13:00 - arrival to the Warsaw Airport (Okęcie)

13:30 - arrival to the IKAR hotel (WAU campus)