On the 21st of January 2009, at 12.00 a.m., at the Congress Centre of the Lublin University of Environmental and Life Sciences there was held a ceremony of conferring the Doctor Honoris Degree of the Lublin University of Environmental and Life Science to Prof. dr hab. Mieczysław Adamowicz – Director of the Institute of Economy and Management at the Pope John Paul II State School of Higher Vocational Education in Biała Podlaska. The ceremony was opened by His Magnificence Rector of the Lublin University of Environmental and Life Sciences Prof. dr hab. Marian Wesołowski, who welcomed all the guests.