LOVE EVERY DROP Erasmus Project

Project Title

LOVE EVERY DROP

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: Natural sciences; Environment and climate change; Energy and resources

Project Summary

Water is essential for life as well as a vital resource for the economy. Water plays an essential part in regulating our climate. Water and climate are and always have been linked. For these reasons, freshwater is a finite, precious and indispensable resource for sustaining life, ensuring sustainable social welfare and economic prosperity, and a healthy ecosystem. The Love Every Drop project provided an introduction to the importance of water locally and globally and raise awareness of how simple actions can substantially reduce water consumption. The focus was for students to carry out water audits in their schools and homes, as well as of local rivers and lakes. Our aims were as the following: To make students understand the value of clean water in their local environment, to develop their knowledge about the importance of water by analyzing its role in the past, present and future, to enhance responsible attitudes and effective key competences towards the respect of water and our environment, to improve students’ language and intercultural knowledge, to make the students from the target group and the community responsible about the problem of water management, to identify solutions concerning the responsible management of environmental problems in general and water in particular, to integrate students in the European society as active participants and potential future decision makers, to promote cooperation between young people from different European countries. Subjects and Problems: 1. the main subject of the project was water preservation. The students need to explain why water has become an endangered natural resource, they found solutions and alternatives for reducing water consumption and they identified alternative water resources. 2. The second main subject was providing European cooperation between students from different countries as active citizens in a common effort to resolve a general problem which affected Europe in the years to come. Approach to achieve the objectives: The approach on this project is made through various strategies, deductive and inductive, focusing on the trainee. Majority activities were active and participative; we used modern methods and digital instruments, educational platforms, virtual work places. Starting with local geographical particularities, but concerning a common problem at a European level, the students worked in international teams with the purpose of harmonizing the suggested solutions. By using brainstorming and student‐centered methods, questioning problems, case studies and projects, the students offered concrete solutions to the identified problems. “Love Every Drop” project provided an introduction to the importance of water on both local and global basis. “Love Every Drop” was implemented in 6 schools , focusing on 11-14 years students where they learned from each other and which now serves as a role model for other schools. Teachers gained ideas and tools for an interdisciplinary learning programming on the theme of water. The major impact resided in the fact that the target group became aware of the necessity of a rational and sustained management of the water resources. In this way they became active participants in the process of environmental protection in general and water resources in particular. The development of the project determined the raising of awareness amongst the population when it comes to the responsible management of water. This led to the reduction of water consumption at home and at school, by rationally using the existing resources and by raising the quantity of recycled water.
Our results are: A letter to local authorities as future generations and a charter of the water-conscious citizen, creation of a project website and innovative educational units. Water usage tracking chart: We used the chart to track our daily water use over two days. Water Detectives: participating schools Project’s Team responsible for each month worked as water detectives. Every day they check for leaky taps. We monitored our water usage every week by reading the water meter. Exhibition of photographs of different types of irrigation and the landscape surrounding these irrigation systems. Pupils saw themselves as global citizens who can make a difference to the world. Teachers had ideas and tools for an interdisciplinary learning programming on the theme of water. The geographical area covered by the project (Slovakia, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Hungary and Lithuania) is a large area, crossing Europe both horizontally and vertically. This multi-country partnership intended to offer an added value to the project firstly thanks to the location of the partner country and secondly, to the transnational cooperation as it was planned.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130270 Eur

Project Coordinator

Salcininku r. Eisiskiu Stanislovo Rapolionio gimnazija & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas do Forte da Casa
• IC 29 MIRAGLIA-SOGLIANO
• ISIKLI 60.YIL ORTAOKULU
• Zakladna umelecka skola Stefana Nemetha – Samorinskeho Nemeth – Samorinsky Istvan Muveszeti Alapiskola
• Dunavarsányi Árpád Fejedelem Általános Iskola