Within the 18th year of the largest science festival in Slovakia “European Night of Science”, we, VODOHOSPODÁRSKA VÝSTAVBA, STATE ENTERPRISE, participated in this event on September 27, 2024.
The festival was traditionally held on the last Friday of September in Bratislava, Košice, Banská Bystrica, Žilina, Poprad and other accompanying locations.
After a successful 17th edition, which we were part of in Bratislava, we decided to allow participants from other regions to get informed about our important project “Upgrade of Gabčíkovo locks”. This year we visited with the project the city of Poprad.
The all-day program offered a number of scientific presentations, practical experiments, workshops, discussions, technological attractions and digital activities. We presented to the festival participants the project Uplocks. Pupils of primary schools, secondary schools and gymnasiums were interested in our lock chambers and were lectured about their life and significance by the employee of VV, š. p., Ing. Monika Takáčová.
Not only through lectures, but also through videos from the implementation of the project, we showed the participants of the festival the scope and importance of the lock chambers and the Gabčíkovo Waterworks, in addition to the difficulty of innovation and modernization.
We are pleased that among so many different interesting activities in the field of science, the visitors found time and showed interest in science related to water and Gabčíkovo lock chambers.
Project “Upgrade of Gabčíkovo locks” was co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union.