About Us

Why a project about water?

Because it is time to re-examine our values, make thoughtful choices, and adjust our lifestyles to give more consideration to the environment. This includes changing our water use habits in ways that will help the resource sustain itself and maintain its quality.

Water is the lifeblood of the environment, essential to the survival of all living things - plant, animal and human - and we must do everything possible to maintain its quality for today and the future. Water is unifying cultures and can stimulate cross cultural and intercultural understanding;

The major focus of the project is the promotion of active European citizenship and that water education can be seen as a very concrete means to contribute to such citizenship. Our project is designed to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation and knowledge of the younger generation.

The project aims to:
* educate students about water and related issues
* allow us to bring together students, teachers and experts in water field.

Specifically, we will highlight:
* comparison price and water consumption / person (for students and their families) they make a questionnaire;
* carry out river monitoring tests and accurately collect and analyze original data;
* use GPS technology to gather data and create scaled GIS maps using GPS data;
* students will use data to identify specific threats to local water quality (Sava and Borcea River) by gathering river water quality data and GPS data; students will then develop maps that illustrate land use and water quality.
They will analyze the data on their maps and develop a reasonable correlation between land use and water quality, and submit appropriate recommendations for action. These recommendations will be made to various local agencies at a student-led conference.

What is student-directed learning?
* Students will select their own small groups for this study;
* Groups will select one water quality test to perform and analyze;
* Groups will select GPS sites to gather data;
* Student groups will decide what data to compile on the final maps;
* Students will decide how to present their data correlations;
* Students can join a committee held after school that will attend and present their interventions the local conference.

Best Use of Technology:
* Students will use technology to communicate with their partners to forward and share data those students collected;
* Technology will also be used to communicate with various sites along the river to share data and experiences;
* GPS technology will be lent to students to gather data;
* Students will access the website of the project to answer 2 quizzes;
* Students will create multimedia presentations as part of their correlation report.
* Students will make graph and analyze the data.

Cultural and Art activities: Water gives us more than life; it also gives meaning to our lives, and this meaning cannot always be measured in scientific terms or in numerical data. However, this meaning can be expressed in art. Students will express things we all feel about water but may not be able to communicate as well. It is about: pictures, posters, video advertisements and the Water Play.

The students will exchange details about local myths and legends and then will make folded A4 booklets in their own language and then in English.

Music and water have much in common; rivers are like music and music is like a river. They speak well of one another. The songs tell the story of our long relationship with rivers. Rivers have been the routes of exploration, the boundaries of territories, the highways of commerce, and they have sustained us with water, food, recreation, beauty and inspiration. And music, like water, has the amazing ability to renew itself . . . these songs from our past, like water from another time, come together to form, in essence . . . the past within the present.

Photographers have always loved rivers as a subject; the towns and communities along rivers were, and are, picturesque and rich in history. The best art works and photos will be on the website and on the CD/DVD with the "Music of the river - promoting sustainable development" performed by the partners. The aim of this CD is to raise people's awareness about water issues. We will also have a calendar with the art works.

We wish to teach students how to think, not what to think about environmental issues. Water is a common heritage of mankind, so we need to protect the water.

Be a responsible consumer - it makes sense!

Thank you ACES Programme for the opportunity to join you.

SW - SW Team