Topics of the Day

• Water Footprint of the Food of the Training
  
• Workshop: Ideas for new Projects
• Final Evaluation

LAST DAY AND CONCLUSION – 21.03.2015
1. Ideas – Workshop of ideas related to action perspectives about sustainability and water

Question: “What was the most important thought for every participant?”

Method:
– Every participant writes an important thought with his/her name on a card
– Categorize the cards
– Form groups for every category

– Create a mind-map for the categories and related issues
– Ideas for an action to solve the problem/issue (idealistic)
– Reality check how the action could be executed
– Presentation of the action

Result:
The five categories for the ideas have been
– Social: “Problem of unequal access to water”
– Political: “Think long term – Act short term”
– Environmental: Problem “Water pollution”
o Create a “Water summit for citizens”
– Education: “Living Sustainability”
o Develop a “Living School”
o Change through education
o Issues: Practical education/ modern methods/ relation to sustainability

Evaluation:
– Too big groups
– Objective to work together was a joy and productive
– Interesting was the step from “Ideal” to “Practice”. It leads to set the aims high.
– For the method the age of the participants should be considered. The experience showed that smaller children are way more creative than older ones.

Possibility for daily work:
This method could be used for engaging participants for starting new actions. It is a method for the end of a training, because there have to be a common knowledge about the issue. It depends on the age and motivation of the group.

2. Review: “Water consumption during the seminar”

Method:
– During the seminar the cooking team noted all the ingredients of the meals and calculated the used amount of green, blue and grey water. Also the values of used water in the bathrooms and kitchen have been noted. Within a presentation of tables, all the values have been calculated to receive the total used amount of water. This leads to a discussion about the method of the water-foot-print and ways of implement awareness for the water consumption in daily life.

Result:
– The amount of used water in bathrooms, kitchen and for the electricity was 26 m3. The used amount of water in the kitchen was presented through showing the meals with the most water amount and the smallest water amount and the surprising results.

– Discussion:
o The difference between agricultural circumstances e.g. Polyculture was discussed regarding how precise the indicator is.
o The group discussed that there are a lot more aspects which should be considered. The consumer has to think about social circumstances of the producing land, CO2 Footprint and the transport. At least it could be an intuitive decision, but therefore the consumer has to be aware. An conscious consume behavior could be supported with the method of a water-foot-print calculation

Problem:
The discussion faced different opinions about the values. Also the structure of the footprint was not totally clear.

Possibility for daily work:
The method seems to be a perfect repetition for the water-foot-print issue. There has been an input about the water-foot-print before. So the method of showing the used water amount or water-foot-print of the training leads to a direct connection to the issue.

Energizer: Finger-War

The Energizer is divided into 3 parts:

1. Part: Groups of two persons are formed; they are standing in front of each other; they clap their hand three times and then show with the fingers left, right or above;
If both do the same direction they are happy.

2. Part: The two persons of the group put one hand on their back and with the other one they try to touch the hand which is on the back of their partner/enemy.

3. Part: All the participants try to touch the hand on the back of anybody else.

Possibility for daily work:
One of the best energizer the group did in that training. Energizers could be used to activate the participants especially after formal education inputs. They make fun and raise the team spirit.

3. Evaluation of the training

Method:
– An anonym survey; the questionary was prepared by the trainers
Result:
– The survey was for the trainers internal

4. Group Evaluation

Method:
– The participants should be divided into groups of 4 – 5 Persons
– There are some Flipchartpapers which has been prepared with space for positive, negative and improving aspects
– The groups write down positive and negative aspects as well as suggestions for improving the training

5. Networking

Method:
– Everybody introduced him/herself and explained his individual interest;
– the other participants say something if they have further information, contacts or ideas for the person who introduced himself
Result:
– If possible there was an exchange of contact-information, websites and potential partners for projects

6. Final Feedback

Method:
– Every participant get the chance to say some last words in the plenum of all participants
Result:
– The whole group was feeling thankful for the possibility of being part of the training
– The training was described as an intercultural project with a lot of different points of view; it lead to an optimism
– Other words which were mentioned very often has been: Thanks, joy, potential