Science festival

Science festival 2019

The 17th Science Festival was marked in Orahovica from 8 to 13 April 2019. Physiotherapy Students combined their knowledge and skills with colors in an interesting way and for the second year in a row prepared a poster presentation for the citizens of Orahovica and other students. Fourth-year student Arijan Voldin gave a lecture on "How Do Colors Cure?" and introduced a holistic method of treatment, chromotherapy. Mary Reili, a third-year student in her poster presentation "Is Your Red Equal to My Red?" talked about the subjective experience of seeing colors and vision disorders. Nikolina Bočkaj, a third-year student, presented the topic "A Look through Two Colors" and introduced the audience to heterochromia. Teaching/research assistants working in Orahovica also joined the Science Festival, thus further enriching the program through poster presentations and workshops. Ivan Perić, MSK combined his knowledge of kinesiology with colors and presented a poster on the topic of “Types of Muscle Fibers”. The end of the festival was marked by a sports workshop by Toni Josić, MSK who gave a lecture to second-grade pupils of the Elementary School Ivana Brlić - Mažuranić in Orahovica as part of sports activities on the topic "Colors of Our Muscles".

On April 9^th and 10^th 2019, at the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Health Osijek in Church street 21, the following workshops were held: "Numbers in Colors" led by Robert Mujkić and colleagues Ivana Lovrić and Anđela Grgić, "50 Shades of White" led by Marija Pejakić and colleagues Marko Aleksijević, Marko Babić, Luka Ostojić, Sanja Kirsch, Marko Matijević and Marinko Žulj, followed by a workshop entitled "Who Has Pink Teeth?" by Marija Samardžić and her colleague Jasminka Talapko and, finally, a lecture entitled "Color of Life" by Svjetlana Marić. In addition to workshops and lectures, student posters were also exhibited at the Faculty.

On April 10, 2019, two lectures: "With Colors towards the Health" by Mirjana Kralj Vasilj, Brankica Juranić, Kasandra Musović and "Colors of Human Perception" by Štefica Mikšić and student Željko Mudrog were held at the Medical School Osijek to the fourth-grade students.

Posters titled "Colors in Medical Terminology in English" by Lorna Dubac Nemet, Ivana Barać and Ksenija Benčina and "Do Colors Affect Human Emotions and Behavior" by Ivana Barać, Lorna Dubac Nemet, Nikolina Farčić and Suzana Kovačević are also on display at the Faculty at the address Car Hadrijan street 10E, Osijek.

The colors showed the true beauty and art of living and left all visitors and lecturers a fond memory of the 2019 Science Festival.

List of participants and topics:

Science Festival, April 8-13, 2019