Velebit and its natural riches will be at the centre of a science and education event on Friday, bringing together pupils and nursery children in Senj. The event was announced by the Northern Velebit National Park (Nacionalni park Sjeverni Velebit) and is titled "Velebit Researchers – climate, geodiversity, biodiversity and sport".
The event will take place on Friday, 6 November 2026, from 9:30 to 14:30 at the Silvija Strahimira Kranjčevića Primary School in Senj. During the programme, pupils and nursery children will have the opportunity to participate in a series of interactive workshops linking natural sciences, environmental protection, natural heritage research and sport.
Participants will explore the richness of Velebit and other protected areas in Croatia through experiments, games, observation of natural specimens, VR technology and research tasks. The programme involves the Paklenica National Park (Nacionalni park Paklenica), the Croatian Museum of Natural History (Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej), the Ruđer Bošković Institute (Institut Ruđer Bošković), the Grabovača Cave Park (Pećinski park Grabovača), the Medvednica Nature Park (Park prirode Medvednica), the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb (Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu), the Velebit Speleological Society (Speleološko društvo Velebit), the Croatian Sports Museum (Hrvatski športski muzej) and the Northern Velebit National Park.
The event is being held as part of the science popularisation project "Velebit Researchers – scientific (STEM) education in extracurricular teaching". It is organised in cooperation between the Northern Velebit National Park, the Velebit Speleological Society and the Silvija Strahimira Kranjčevića Primary School in Senj, and is implemented with the support of the Ministry of Science, Education and Youth (Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i mladih).
