There is no Life without water Erasmus Project

Project Title

There is no Life without water

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers; Health and wellbeing; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Irresponsible consumption of clean water may easily lead to a crisis and chaos that would affect billions of people in the near future. Bearing this reality in mind, we have set on a mission to change how people deal with water and we would like to change these patterns/habits, inoculating proper attitude into the minds of today’s young generations: we want our students to turn the topic upside down and inside out, to learn about water usage as it used to be regarded by our ancestors, and the way in which we consume it nowadays and the effects of illogical consumption for the future of human beings. We want them to become active promoters and defenders of responsible water usage, to initiate local campaigns “Save the water for your future”, to analyse people’s behaviours towards water and water sources in their local communities and share them with their partners. Also, throughout the project, we want to investigate and come up with a plan to turn our schools into water-friendly and eco-friendly schools and make local authorities implement this common plan on several institutions in our areas, so that we can make a real difference in the end.

OBJECTIVES
1. to raise knowledge about water and water sources from different perspectives – cultural, literary, scientific, artistic – at least 55% of students
2. to develop students’ awareness about the importance of water for the humankind – min. 60% of students
3. to help students to identify general problems about water shortage and personalize them to their local context
4. to encourage students’ civic engagement in community issues related to ecology and strengthen the role of the school in the local community
5. to improve students’ soft skills cultural awareness and creativity
6. to improve their language and ICT skills
7. to create a network of Water-friendly and eco-friendly schools and expand it with the aid of local authorities

MAIN ACTIVITIES
C1 – Water in the past – literature, folktales, art
C2 – Water and health – P.E. perspectives, Biology
C3 – The Science of water – Geography, Science, Maths
C4 – Water in the future – Eco-campaigns on excessive consumption, pollution.
C5 – Making our schools sustainable water consumers

In the LTTAs students will work on each topic applying questionnaires and analysing the results, writing poems, creating paintings, posters, organizing local campaigns to raise awareness about water depletion to develop their school premises and turn it into a water-friendly and eco-friendly school. They present all their work in video conferences on eTwinning.

PARTICIPANTS
Students will be the main actors in both local and transnational activities. The age range of the participants in exchanges is 12-14. These students will be accompanied by 2 teachers in each project meeting. The profile of the accompanying teachers will be related to the sub-topic of each exchange.
For C5, participants are 3 teachers from each partner school (a total of 12 teachers). They are the school head teachers, the project coordinators and one project member that coordinates the Water Friendly School (WFS) plan and its dissemination and sustainability.
RESULTS
Poster, films about local water supplies, creating maps of water sports facilities in their regions, applying surveys and questionnaires on local citizens to measure their water consumption and observing the goal of water consumption in households before and after the project implementation to measure the impact. They are involved in organization of local campaigns to rise people’s awareness about the effects of illogical water consumption, make leaflets, parades etc. Together with teachers, they recognize illogical water use in the schools, so that they can come up with ideas to make the school water-friendly. During the exchanges, they observe lessons about water, are involved in cleaning environment, physical activities (e.g. water sports, hiking), create artwork, write and sing songs and design posters in multicultural groups, will go on field trips to take water samples and measure drinkability quality. Toward the end of the project, students and teachers make a plan to turn the school into a water-friendly environment. These plans are presented by the teachers during last meeting (C5) and adapted into the final version, which will be given to local authorities that will extend the use of the plan to more schools in the regions.
IMPACT
Schools will gain a good prestige by involving the students and teachers in community issues and trying to raise awareness about local problems that can affect the life quality.
Schools will also create an example of eco-friendliness that is expected other schools to follow. The problems related to water are only one part of the environmental issues we are faced up with, so we can continue improving projects on these issues.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 140360 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO N. SAN SALVO (CHIETI) & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Professionalna Gimnaziya po Transport
• Ozel Bakirkoy Gen Ortaokulu
• Scoala Gimnaziala Piscolt
• Szkola Podstawowa im.Jana Pawla II w Kupnie