festAmbjent

festAmbjent

The Environmental Committee at the UM Junior College is organising the third edition of festAmbjent on 27 to 31 January 2025.

A series of seminars will be held on a variety of topics from the various academic disciplines, giving students the chance to look at environmental issues from a wider lens. For a complete overview of the seminars, kindly refer to the festAmbjent programme. Lecturers who would like to book their classes for a seminar may send an email to jacqueline.rotin@um.edu.mt by Thursday 23 January 2025. Students will also have the opportunity to watch a documentary on climate change, which will be followed by a discussion.

In the Foyer, one will have the opportunity to visit various stands including stands set up by local environmental NGOs, the Argotti Botanic Gardens and Resource Centre, the Institute of Earth Systems and the Earth Systems Association. Students of the Junior Achievement Malta, Company Programme who have developed products which have an eco-friendly dimension will be demonstrating their work and selling their products.

One can also sit down and relax ‘fis-salott’ in the Foyer, and watch some of the videos with an environmental theme that will be screened throughout the whole week. The videos feature the work of various environmental activists in their struggles to safeguard their local and the global environment. One can also listen to ‘Nature Speaking’ in a number of video clips by Conservation International.

An exhibition ‘Confronting the Injustices of the Fashion Industry’ will be set up for the whole week with the aim of raising awareness on the effects of the fashion industry on humans, animals and the planet.

A bake sale and a plant sale will also be held. Proceedings of the bake sale will be used for the care and feeding of the cats that joined us on the College grounds. Local, indigenous plants grown at the Argotti Botanic Gardens and Resource Centre will be sold at no profit in order to promote the concept of giving local indigenous plants to our loved ones for Valentine’s.  

Tree Planting in collaboration with Ilwien and Il-Perla Childcare centres will conclude the event.

Note: Students attending any of the seminars will be exempted from their lectures.



https://www.jc.um.edu.mt/ouractivities/festambjent