Water – A Combining Element
The Finnish partner school, Merenojan koulu, oversees Module 5, “Ports”, which turns to areas that have always been places where people meet to trade goods or exchange ideas, and thus are central to the development of entire regions, although their meaning might have changed over time. The focus will be put on the location of …
Module 4, “Water Management”, analyses the vital procurement of drinking water, water as an economic factor and protection against water. This module is organized by Europaschule Gymnasium Westerstede (Germany). People have always managed the waters in the environment surrounding them. They use rivers and lakes as transport routes, change them according to their needs, use …
Changes due to the predicted climate change and possible mitigation and adaptation measures in the participating regions are the focus of Module 3, “Environment and Climate Change”, headed by I. E. S. El Palmeral (Spain). Climate change can cause water scarcity and other environmental disasters like floods. The project participants will study the changes expected …
Liceo G. B. Vico has about 1,300 students (aged 14 to 19) and 100 teachers and it offers three different kinds of study courses: Classical (Humanities), Scientific and Foreign Language High schools. Our school has introduced some specialized courses: five classes of classical studies attend some lessons of different subjects in English to get International …
The 13th Gymnasium of Heraklion constitutes one of the largest junior high schools of our city, since 420 students approximately study in it divided in three grades. There are 40 teachers and five teachers of special education for students with learning difficulties as well as two teachers who have taken over the responsibility of assisting …
The Merenojan general secondary school is located in Kalajoki, Finland with approximately 300 students and 30 teachers. The school provides general education for students in Kalajoki with students departing the school in the direction of either vocational or further studies in the upper secondary school. The school is one of the leading schools in Finland …
The 13th Gymnasium of Heraklion (Greece) is responsible for Module 2, “Tourism andSport”. This module focuses on the recreational function of water. The students will analyse the importance of tourism on the water bodies near the participating schools. The project groups will explore the question what effects tourism has on the economy, the labour market …
I. E. S. El Palmeral, is a secondary school with 700 students (aged 12 to 18) in ordinary classes and over-16-year-olds in evening classes, adding another 200 students. Some groups have bilingual education (English-Spanish). The current number of teachers working in our school is 65. Over the past few years our town has experienced an …
Module 1, “Art and History”, organized by Liceo Ginnasio G. B.Vico (Italy), examines how in the different regions the perception of water has changed over time from an artistic point of view and how this is reflected in today’s painting, music, and literature. The students will investigate the importance of water as a leitmotif in …
Europaschule Gymnasium Westerstede is the coordinating school of this project. There are some 1,200 students at Europaschule Gymnasium Westerstede, who are taught by about 120 teachers. The students are between nine and 19 years old and attend Years 5 to 12. After the first foreign language English, the second foreign language is taken from Year …
This project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Water – A Combining Element
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