YEAR 2012 NEWS

Under the slogan "What if not Euro?" in the Blue Room of the Regional Office of Lublin the XII Congress of European School Clubs took place. c

This year's congress was organized by Regional Centre for European Information in Lublin, the Information Centre Europe - Direct Lublin and the Lublin Voivodship Office in Lublin. Patron of the Congress took Ms. Jolanta Szołno-Koguc  Lubelskie Governor and Mr. Krzysztof Babisz Lublin Scholl’s Superintendent. The Congress was attended by about 200 pupils from primary, middle and high schools of the Lublin province belonging to the European School Clubs.

This year's meeting was devoted to the theme of "Euro" in the double meaning: the currency and the European Championships in football, organized this year by Poland and Ukraine.

The first part of the Congress was conducted by Ilona Skibińska – Fabrowska the director of Lublin brach of the National Bank of Poland, which in her lecture talked about "Road to Euro." In the first part also Mr. Krszysztof  Babisz Lublin Scholl’s Superintendent and Dr. Jan Buczma, deputy director of the Department of Certification and European Funds Lublin Provincial Office gave a speech to the pupils.

The second part of the meeting was devoted to sport. At first there was a presentation given by Mr. Jerzy Rejdych who is a coordinator of youth groups in Building Sports Club in Lublin. This part of the meeting was also attended by football players Konrad Nowak (Wisła Puławy) and Mateusz Chmielnicki (AZS UMCS Futsal). These people encouraged pupils to live a sporty and active lifestyle.

During the Congress we also announced the results of a  contest for designing the reverse coin of the future Polish Euro currency. There were also two other contest during the Congress: one about Euro currency and the second about football.