IMD in Croatia

Walk in the park with microbes

When: 20 September 2025

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Where: Maksimir park, Zagreb

Event Description: Families with children or other interested individuals strolling through the Maksimir park will be invited to walk, or run, the course with 7 different stations each dealing with a different type of microbial life. The participants will be given a map to get oriented at the start. Each station will have designated activities coordinated by volunteers (a quiz, a game) and a perforator will be supplied to mark reaching that station.

Objective: To raise awareness of the importance of microbes and make learning about microbes an outdoor interactive activity.

Target audience: Families with children

Expected number of participants: 300

Format: Educational walking tour

Team: Ivana Babić, Ana Bielen, Andreja Leboš Pavunc, Ines Sviličić Petrić, Maja Šegvić Klarić, Ivana Rajnović, Jasna Novak, Monika Šabić Runjavec, Manuela Zadravec, and HMD-CMS volunteers (50-60)

Schedule:

  • 8:30-10h setting up the point of departure, eight educational “stations” and a finish line of the educational walking tour about 2 km long.

  • 10-14h preregistered participants can freely enter the course and walk at their own pace, volunteers are replaced at one station every two hours for a rest.

  • 15:30-16:30 disassembling the educational points (stalls, equipment) and departure from the park.

Registration:

Preregistration via web form at www.hmd-cms.hr (in the making) and about 10% of the spots for on site registration.

FEMS Microbiology