Project Start Date – 01/09/2023
Project total Duration – 24 months
Project End Date – 31/08/2025

Objectives:

-To raise awareness of water literacy of the students, to encourage them to have sustainable and responsible consumption habits, and to learn about being a world citizen.

-To have students obtain STEAM skills in accordance with the needs of the 21st century such as creativity, information literacy problem-solving, critical thinking and resilience.

-To raise an understanding of water pollution, water shortage, water conservation, and sustainability of water resources.

Implementation: 

Work Package 1: Project Management

Work Package 2: The Green Platform

Work Package 3: Time To Get Water Literate

Work Package 4: STEAM In Water Save

Work Package 5: Evaluation-Dissemination

Results: 

R1: The Green Platform

R2: The Water Literacy Rubric

R3: STEAM Techniques Addressing Water Save

R4: Water Save Curriculum

Organizations:

Austria – Wien – GTVS Am Hundsturm 

website – http://www.amhundsturm.at/

Germany – Düsseldorf – SCHWERPUNKT ZENTRUM GMBH 

Website – https://sch-bildung.de/

Spain – Canarias – Vecindario – INSTITUTO DE ENSEÑANZA SECUNDARIA SANTA LUCÍA

Website – www.iessantalucia.org

Italy – Lombardia – BUCCINASCO – ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO RITA LEVI MONTALCINI BUCCINASCO

Website – WWW.ICRLMONTALCINI.EDU.IT

Portugal – Região Autónoma da Madeira – Santa Cruz – EB1/PE das Figueirinhas 

Website – https://escolas.madeira-edu.pt/eb1pefigueirinhas/

Türkiye – Adana – Doğu Akdeniz Eğitim Derneği

Website – www.doguakdenizegitim.com

EB1/PE das Figueirinhas school project coordinator 

Teacher Vanda Franco

1st Transnational Meeting – Turkey

On the 21st and 22nd of February, the participants of this project met in the city of Adana, Turkey to decide on issues related to the development of this project.

We got to know the key operations of hosting NGO. 

To know more about this organization visite:Eastern Mediterranean Education Association (doguakdenizegitim.com).

During the meeting each country presented each school and country.

We also discussed how the education system works in each country.

Other topic we adressed was how municipal and government intervenes with measures to avoid wasting water and what measures are taken to preserv it.

We also mentioned the innovative practices in each home countries regarding water preservation and sow statistics that point out current levels of dams, rainfall rates, etc., and future estimation.

During these meetings we also distributed tasks and responsibilities to be fulfilled until the next meeting (LTTA1) and we determinated the exact dates of the next and following LTTAs.

We also visited a private school, Adana College, to enable a close look to alternative settings of education to public schools.
There we had a chance to explore nature education in Adana College and what methods of teaching nature appreciation are taken.

During this visit to Adana, we had the opportunity to visit the old part of the city. It was a very beautiful walk and we got to know traditions and the town with a close look.