The Many Faces of Water – a holistic approach to the vital element of life Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Many Faces of Water – a holistic approach to the vital element of life

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Natural sciences; Energy and resources

Project Summary

The SzSzC Tokaji Ferenc Secondary school applied for a grant at Tempus Public Foundation in 2016. Our project, which bears the title of ’The Many Faces of Water – a holistic approach to the vital element of life’, was awarded 38485 Euros. The Hungarian coordinator school has had partners from Turkey, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK.
Three transnational and three LTTAs were organized during the implementation period. The first staff meeting took place in Tokaj, Hungary where the coordinators discussed the objectives, distributed the tasks and responsibilities, set the dates and goals of each meeting. 55 student-, and 45 teacher mobilities were carried out using the financial grant, but the actual number of participants were much higher as host countries delegated students staff and other stakeholders at the meetings. We also organized water related activities to promote our project. These were usually related to important dates in environmental protection; here mention must be made of the Water Charta that gained the support of 1133 people as of the date of project closure.
As a basic means of dissemination of results we created a project website that contains news, information and results of our activities.
Besides the printed materials made during the meetings all activities have been documented in pictures in short videos as well.
The meetings proved that water plays a highly significant role in our lives. The participants were invited to the presidential palace where we could gain an insight to Hungary’s water policies at the first meeting. We learnt about the connection between viticulture and water at the Research Institute for Viticulture and Oenology in Tokaj, how water is a source of life for vines and how it is a deadly force that leads to soil erosion. Sport and recreational possibilities of water were the focal points of the Polish meeting. The Italian meeting was centered around agriculture, as our partners are in the vicinity of seas, we paid special attention to this fact and also the risks of using high salt content water in plantations. Spain gave the perfect opportunity to include the historical aspect in our project; the conquest of the New World, and the history of sea navigation. Turkey shared good practices of their action program to clean the river banks in Carsamba. Finally, students expressed water through performing arts in London.
The meetings were dedicated to learn our partners’ good practices and see and discuss new perspectives in order to apply them in our own school curricula.
Students improved their professional and interpersonal skills by working in an international environment. We compiled a 6 language thematic dictionary, published in digital and printed form as well. We also published a workbook; its concise version has been printed whereas its full form is available for the wide public on our website (www.themanyfacesofwater.eu) and the official Erasmus + Project Results platform.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 172125 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szerencsi Szakképzési Centrum Tokaji Ferenc Gimnáziuma és Szakközépiskolája & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Carsamba 75. Yil Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• iesmariagaliana
• Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Statale Cenzino Mondelli
• The BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology
• Zespol Szkol Zawodowych