UPWr Participatory Budget: vote and change the university!

The Participatory Budget was created as an initiative of the corporate social responsibility team. Its aim is to strengthen the sense of community of all people involved in the life of the university: employees, students and PhD students. We are glad that so many people have decided to take this opportunity and submit investments that will surely make the university friendlier, more ecological and green ... The budget committee has approved seven projects that met the regulations for voting: three of them are a student initiative, four – employees.

The project’s claim is "You take a chance - we’ll give you the finances". PLN 100,000 to be precise. 50 thousand has been allocated- for employee and doctoral projects, and the other 50,000 for student projects. The projects which win will be implemented – the number of implemented projects will depend on the amount needed for their implementation.

We encourage you to vote: it is the easiest way to influence changes at the university, to choose the most interesting investment, which will change the environment into a friendlier and greener one.

• Voting lasts until Friday, April 8.
• Students vote for student projects, employees and PhD students – for those submitted in their category.

 
 VOTE
 

Student initiatives

Booths for bats and birds on at UPWr 

Applicants: Olga Łuczak from the "Mlecz" Student Science Club and Wojciech Godlewski from the Teriologist Student Science Club
Budget: PLN 2.700

The aim of the project is to make the university's area more attractive in terms of breeding, resting and wintering sites for bats and birds. Urbanized areas are often devoid of natural shelters and breeding places such as hollows (preferred, for example, by brown batons, tits, mazurkas or hedgehogs), bark crevices and natural shelves.

The budget includes the purchase and installment of 14 bird boxes and 10 boxes for bats, near the Faculty of Biology and Animal Breeding which lies next to the Biskupiński Park, green embankments and a river.

The project will contribute to the protection and increase in the number of these animals. It will also allow to diversify didactic classes and may become the subject of research during diploma theses and student research clubs.

Bee&Chill Patio at the Main Library

Applicant: Karolina Kelner from the Landscape Architecture Student Science Club 
Budget: PLN 50.000

The aim of the project is to create a friendly, ecological and green space for learning and relaxing. As part of the project, the patio in the Main Library would be modernised and a social room would be added (including terrace boards, garden furniture, pots and plants). Additionally, glazed doors would be installed so that the patio would be visible to students studying in the library and the social room would be renovated (walls painted, floor tiles installed, lighting replaced, added tables and pouffes). Thanks to this, depending on the needs and weather conditions, it would be possible to use an external patio or a room inside the building. There would also be a rainwater tank and a house for insects.

The project was made by a student of the Landscape Architecture Student Science Club

Biodiverse corner at UPWr

Applicant: Stefan Połonecki, agriculture student
Budget: PLN 48.000

The aim of the project is to create a place teeming with biodiverse life on the premises of the university (at Norwida Street or near the buildings at Grunwaldzka Street). The project involves creating a space of around 120-200 m2 full of vegetation (interesting, rare and field plants) along with a path made of natural materials. Colourful chairs would be places in the centre of this oasis of plants and insects (which will certainly appear there) – to sit down for a while and rest. It would be a place not only to relax, but also for education, because all plants would be described (with a QR code). Some plants could also be used as research material during laboratory exercises.

Employee initiatives

 
Vertical garden at UPWr

Applicants: Public Relation Department
Budget: PLN 41.900

The aim of the project is to create a vertical wall at the patio in the main building at Norwid Street (the plants would include philodendrons, scindapsus, ferns, epipremnum, phytonia, calathea, dieffenbachia). The wall will be designed with the use of felt and fabric technology, it will have its own irrigation and drainage system. It will have a decorative and representative function in a place where many university celebrations take place. It will also be used to promote the university – it will be a great place to take photos, videos and other materials for the university's social media.

The main building is a place of work for most of the university’s administration, and a place where some students learn. The patio is also frequently visited by the university’s guests. Research shows that plants in the workplace improve employee performance and positively affect their well-being.

The wall will also have didactic and practical aspects for students of WPT and WIKŚiG.  Landscape architecture and gardening classes could take place there and taking care of the wall will be an additional experience for them.

Bee friendly! Insect and bird friendly garden in the parking lot next to the Geo-Info-Hydro building

Applicants: Institute of Spatial Management
Kwota: PLN 10.500

According to the project, the garden would be a place to provide insects and birds with water and food, and also lower the local temperature (the concrete parking lot heats up in summer, threatening birds and insects). Fruit trees and shrubs would provide food and shelter for the birds (gooseberry, puff cherry, blackberry, dogwood, colourful viburnum and common euonymus). According to the project, the plants will be planted in pots, in the colours corresponding to the staircase of the building, which are visible through the glass façade. There will be drinkers for birds installed in the pots.

The project also involves planting honey plants and preparing drinkers for bees. Also garden loungers will be added for students and employees. As a result, the previously inhospitable space will turn into an ecological, relaxing and recreational space.

Intercultural Relations Club – a space to establish intercultural relations

Applicant: UPWr Doctoral School
Kwota: PLN 50.000

The UPWr Doctoral School is an international school, and among PhD students and employees there are people from different countries. Cultural diversity is associated not only with a different way of communicating, but also with multi-directional and multi-dimensional knowledge, representing different values and customs, which can lead to misunderstandings and conflicts. That is why it is so important to get to know each other, also outside of work. This is what the space for intercultural relations would be for.

It would be a club in which an atmosphere of mutual respect would prevail, with local dishes prepared by PhD students / students / scientists, where periodic meetings and exchange of views would be held. As part of the project, a room with a small kitchenette would be adapted (the buffet could be in room 29 in building F8 at Chełmońskiego Street). Tables with chairs, pouffes, bean bags, umbrellas and deckchairs for the terrace and necessary household appliances would also be purchased.

Charging station for electric scooters and bikes

Applicants: Didactic Resource and Support Centre, Digitization and Technological Didactic Support Section
Budget: PLN 40.200

The project is dedicated to students and employees of UPWr who use electric bikes and scooters, and its main goal is to improve the comfort of using electrical devices in the context of ecological transport.

The project includes the purchase and installation of a charging station for electric bikes and scooters (it will be ecological and free, as the energy would come from photovoltaic panels). The station would consist of four charging points in the form of two low and two high poles. Each post will be equipped with a universal vertical socket that will alternatively also allow you to dock your bike. The posts would also have two-sided handles that will stabilise the scooter’s handle.