Results of National Poster Contest of Geoparks

The competition was organized from Cyprus team of the European Program in association with Bank of Cyprus which sponsored our winning prizes and also Department of Geological Survey from the Ministry of Agriculture Rular Development and the Environment of the Republic of Cyprus and Geoparks of Troodos and Lesvos island in Greece and was first announced in the 8th Conference of Natural Sciences from the coordinator of Cyprus Team of the program Mr. Nikolas Nikolaou and in Annex 1 you can find the first announcement of the competition with all details, rules, prizes, dates of the accepting posters, evaluating posters and everything that was important
for the competition. In the competition took part more than 10 posters from 5 different schools of Cyprus and all posters
passed from the Jury which where the following:
1. Dr Efthimios Tsiolakis from Department of Geological Survey, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural
Development and Environment of the Republic of Cyprus
2. Dr Antigoni Polyniki from Cyprus National Commission of UNESCO
3. Mr Petros Xatjikostas from Troodos Geopark and Development Company of the Troodos
Region (AN.E.T.)
With the evaluation of the posters we had the winning teams and schools of the competition and the prizes were given in a simple ceremony during the 2nd day of the 2nd Global Conference of Greece and Cyprus Geoparks of Unesco on Friday 17th of May to the Ministry of Economics in Nicosia. The three winning posters were:
1st winning Poster: “Drinking Water of Natural Sources in Geopark of Troodos and their
connection with our health” with the students Rafaelia Koumoydiou and Adelina Papapetrou from
Lyceum Agios Ioannis Limassol
2nd Winning Poster: “Physical and Chemical properties of soil and how is associated with the
vegetation (plantation) in an area”, with the students Kozakou Maria, Christou Maria and Kallinakis
Alexandros from Lyceum Agios Ioannis Limassol
3rd winning poster: with the students Georgiou Anna and Petrou Fotini and their teacher Fotini
Fotiou from Periferiako Gimnasio Kitiou in Larnaca.