Bugle-call of Lower Silesian Science Festival

music: Wojciech Żdżarski, wykonanie: TRIO TRĄBEK Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Lipińskiego we Wrocławiu, pod kierownictwem prof. Igor Cecocho

The Lower Silesian Science Festival in Europe

For years the Lower Silesian Science Festival has been active in the European Science Events Association. During 10 years of existence, EUSEA (formerly known as EUSCEA) has grown into a large organisation which currently has over 100 members in 37 countries. During the next editions of the Festival, the Places project will be implemented. More information on this can be found at www.openplaces.eu. The Festival is also going beyond the borders of the voivodeship and the country. During 13-15/10/2011, representatives of Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego (Academy of Physical Education) in Wrocław, as representatives of the Lower Silesian Science Festival, participated in the 'Science Days' festival in Rust, Germany. Employees of the Department of Biomechanics - Dr Agnieszka Szpala, Dr Adam Siemieński and Sebastian Jaroszczuk - were invited by Joachim Lerch from the University of Freiburg to participate in the festival, which took place in the Europa Park. 'Science Days' is a huge undertaking not only in the scientific, but also in the organisational sense. For 11 years this festival has been very popular in Germany. The number of visitors - 20,000-25,000 thousand during the three days of the event - attests to this. This year the main slogan of 'Science Days' was 'Zdrowie i Chemia' ('Health and Chemistry'). The employees of our higher education institution prepared a presentation titled 'Jak działają mięśnie? Elektromiografia i jej zastosowanie do oceny pracy mięśni' ('How do muscles work? Electromyography and its application to the assessment of muscle work'). Because the main target group of the demonstrations is children and school-aged youth (7-16 years), the demonstration was in the form of a workshop and a show. Participants of the experiment could observe and even hear their own muscle activity. What aroused the most interest was the possibility of using the EMG signal of their own muscles to control toys (remote-controlled cars).