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Allgemein, General Information

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Water is an essential resource for every living being. Nevertheless, the drinking water resources decreased in the last decades and the pollution of water increased. In many parts of the world water scarcity is a big problem. Effective concepts of sustainable water consumption are more important than ever.

This blog-site contains schedules and educationl methods and approaches from two Eramus+ Training courses in 2015 and 2017 for youth-workers in Berlin(Germany).

During the trainings we dealt with different ecological, economic, political and social aspects of the topic water.

According to the title “Water is Life – Education on Water & Sustainability” of the second course we learned, tryed out and evaluated different interactive pedagogical approaches/methods, which enabled us to integrate the topic water & sustainability in our future daily pedagogical work.

The aim is to sensitize our learners with these attractive methods for this topic and motivate them, to become active by themselves in future.

Furthermore we acquired background knowledge through inputs and did excursions/ guided tours to different places in Berlin which are connected to water and sustainability.

Beside the daily programs this blog offers as well a collection of resources with background-informations, educational approaches, links and diary-articles and comments from the participants of the courses.

Feel free to make use of the collection and spread and link this site :-).

Allgemein, Organizations/ Initiatives/ Approaches of Participants, Wednesday, 27th of September 2017

Flussbad Berlin e.V. Waterfiltration

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Flussbad Berlin e.V. seeks to transform and reactivate the largely unused Spree Canal in Berlin-Mitte along with its adjacent urban areas. The project has a number of different and multilayered objectives; however, its main focus is on revitalising the existing natural and urban resources in the area, cleaning the river in this section and establishing direct public access to the canal. Along Museum Island, between the Humboldt Forum and the Bode Museum, a public space will be created that invites Berliners and visitors alike to swim in clean, uncontaminated water. The project foresees filtering the water in a completely natural way and also transforming the Spree Canal near the Fischerinsel into an ecological water landscape. (Text: Flussbad Berlin e.V.)

What can be useful for your own environmental youth work?
The experiment waterfiltration can be useful as it simulates one important step of the complex processs of  waterfiltration happening in the nature. It also shows the pupils how rivers clean themenselves or can be cleaned and where the drinking water in Berlin comes from: at the water protection areas around Berlin the waterfiltration process takes place at the lake shores so that water goes through different sand and grivel layers to the groundwater which is finally used for drinking water.

Useful materials for your own :
Annual Review of Flussbad Berlin 1
Annual Review of Flussbad Berlin 2
Pictures about waterfiltration
Waterfiltration video
Instruction water experiment
Drinking water in Berlin
About Rivers
Toolbox of various actions about water/river/environment

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact info@flussbad-berlin.de.

Allgemein, Program of the Training 2017, Sunday, 24th of September 2017

My Water Training Diary, Day 2

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September 24th, 2017

Today was the day for action research. Our groups were formed according to our interests, and my group chose to visit Ökowerk and UfaFabrik. Both visits were very instructive and pleasant. The group functioned perfectly, we managed transport dilemmas successfully, and used the time on the train for feedback and plans for presentation of our research, which was the next day.

In Ökowerk, we visited a small museum which hosts exhibitions for kids with interactive materials, so we gathered a lot of ideas for our work in the future. The area around the lake is also used as a garden with labels for all the plants in it, and an old-fashioned water pump, with interestingly assembeld wall, down which the water flows.

UfaFabrik is the “sustainable oasis of culture” where people work to make their grounds both environmentally friendly and sustainable, both in terms of continuous optiomization of the old buildings and service facilities and through the work they do in their offices and with their tenants and partners.

I would rate this day as very successful.