118 119 of PILGRIM institutions recited prepared prayers prepared in their native languages, expressing gratitude and praise to the Creator for the work of Creation. The second day of the meeting began with a pro-environmental march of participants with the appeal "So that the Earth can breathe again." Accompanied by a youth brass band from Czechowice-Dziedzice, a colourful procession with flags, balloons, and banners carrying texts referring to the need to protect the created world, covered the route from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Silesia (18 Jordana Street) to Katowice's Market Square. In front of a tent, the youth were greeted by the mayor of Katowice, Dr Marcin Krupa, accompanied by Vice-Mayor Mariusz Skiba and Daniel Wolny - responsible on behalf of the city for organising the COP24 Climate Summit. After the welcoming words addressed by the mayor to the participants of the European Youth Meeting, everyone took their seats in the tent, where the city’s achievements in ecology were presented, and the young people were briefed on planned initiatives in the coming years aimed at improving air quality and caring for the environment. Katowice presented itself under the slogan 'Black to green', thus recounting this part of its history in which the once dominant heavy industry has been replaced by modern industry based on the latest technologies and knowledge, while also focusing on eco-responsibility and an increasingly green spaces. At the end of the meeting, the young people from Austria and Romania presented the mayor with a copy of the proenvironmental manifesto, with a request for its promotion in the local government and at the COP24 Climate Summit, and received a declaration in return: "I promise to pass it on to the residents of Katowice. And since we are creating with other cities a metropolis of over two million inhabitants, this document will also find its place in the metropolis. Thank you very much for this wonderful initiative." After the meeting at the "Good Climate" tent concluded, the "eco-pilgrimage" continued to the building of the VIII Maria Skłodowska-Curie High School with Bilingual Departments in Katowice, where the proceedings of the Youth Climate Summit were held. After a warm welcome by Maria Dłotko, the principal, the first part of the Summit began – students from European primary and secondary schools took the floor, presenting interesting initiatives for sustainable development. In the second part of the meeting, participants moved to the European Student Parliament, created by high school students. Representatives from more than a dozen schools took the floor, first presenting the environmental situation in their communities, and then proposing Paweł Müller, a student from the VIII High School, pointed out that the biggest problem Images © Johann Hisch Silesia faces is the polluted air and the frequent occurrence of smog, especially in winter. The second issue is waste. In Silesia, there are many areas of so-called 'unfavourably transformed land', remnants of years of intense industrial and mining activity, which are now becoming sites of unsustainable waste management, often involving illegal dumping. These areas include former mines, quarries, brickyards, and steelworks. Waste is often brought here from Western European countries. The origins of the waste are often unknown and pose a threat to people’s lives and health. However, there are also waste products that we generate ourselves, including tons of plastic. The third part of the Youth Climate Summit was a panel discussion involving students from European universities. The discussion was moderated by Dr Piotr Kubiak, Head of the Centre “Education for Sustainable Development and Spirituality” at the University College of Christian Churches of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems as well as the coordinator of PILGRIM in Poland. After the panel discussion, students from Poland and Hungary handed over the text of the pro-environmental manifesto to Dr Johann Hisch, founder and director of PILGRIM, asking him to promote it among educators. The meeting at the Katowice high school concluded with a joint lunch, which was served in biodegradable wheat bran dishes – fully compostable and technically edible. Then, the young people went to the Guido mine in Zabrze, where they participated in the Holy Communion 170 metres underground, presided over by His Eminence Bishop Marek Szkudło, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Katowice. In his
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