Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology Pavlichenko A.V. took part in the jury of the IX Regional Student Conference on Ecology “The Earth does not belong to us - we belong to the Earth!”, which was held at the Dneprodzerzhinsk Energy College on March 30, 2016. 16 reports were presented during the conference, which addressed the current environmental problems of our region and proposed ways to solve them. The work of students and teachers of Dneprodzerzhinsk Energy College who developed an environmental passport for the college territory should be particularly noted.