The olympics of ecology for young people: the first national online ecology competition aimed at first and second grade secondary school children.
The Ecology Laboratory – Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies and the Museum on Ecology of Mediterranean Ecosystems of the University of Salento, in collaboration with the Italian Society of Ecology (SItE) and other partners, promotes and organizes every year EcologicaCup, a competition online national ecology for lower and upper secondary school students.
The tournament has established itself as a highly successful tool to support science teaching in schools. EcoLogicaCup leverages the competitive spirit of students and teachers, thus managing to offer additional motivation to approach the study of natural sciences and, in particular, ecology.