Ecosystem river – approached by observation and experience Erasmus Project

Project Title

Ecosystem river – approached by observation and experience

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Natural sciences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The main purpose of the project was to bring the ecosystem river and environment and nature in general closer to the pupils. The students should gain insights into the different topics of the river ecosystem, especially in order to experience this as worth protecting and worth preserving for the future. Originally, our focus was on a scientific approach. However, many other activities and priorities were discussed throughout the project that we were all open to.
Above all, we wanted to get out of the classroom, experience the river and its ecosystem on site and make it easier for the students to experience it. We had a lot of support from external experts from the Water Management Office, the Nature Conservation Agency and biologists.
The learning-teaching-training activities included 5 students and 3-4 teachers per visiting school. In addition, other school classes and teachers from the college of the host country, professionals, people from local politics and the school authorities.
We have achieved our goals through the following activities:
1. Get to know the river as a habitat
– expert tours. Contents: beaver dam, fish protection zones and bird hatcheries as a safe place from tourism and agriculture (of course, and man-made by humans), microorganisms and insects on the water (related to larger organisms), marshes and wetlands and their inhabitants, amphibians on the river, grazing River floodplain as a landscape conservation measure
2. Work scientifically
– Checking the PH value, determining microorganisms through microscopes and specialist literature, investigating geological features (acid test for the detection of lime in the rock, etc.), observing orders (species of birds and fish species), establishing relationships in the case of food relations along the river (designing the network),
3. Promote language and social literacy
– The students designed a logo to match our project. The groups were mixed internationally. Village rallies in mixed groups to get to know the visitor.
4. Promote media literacy
– Integrate results of excursions and lesson contents in presentations and research on the internet and books
5. Use of the river by humans (energy production, tourism)
– Visit of various hydropower plants in all countries, with experts, visit to the Sylvensteinspeichers (dam), tour of the sewage treatment plant in Vukovar, with introduction to the study of water quality, visit the drinking water treatment plant on the Danube near Vukovar, tourist use of the river (boat tours)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 57925 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mittelschule Lenggries & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Osnovna skola Brsadin
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA “ANDREI SAGUNA” DEVA
• Anyksciu Antano Baranausko pagrindine mokykla