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.

Allgemein, Program of the Training 2017, Saturday, 23rd of September 2017

My Water Training Diary, Day 1

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September 23rd, 2017
This has been an amazing day. We had a lot of team building activities which did the work-we not only remembered the names of all the participants of the course, but we also got to know one another, share ideas, and work together.
I can say that in a strange way, the activity in which we were blind-folded was an eye-opener. My first thought was that it was a short entance into the world of blind people, just a glimpse of their every-day struggle. It is a world in which you are not sure which way to go and not to bump into people and things, a world in which your focus moves from your sight to your hearing. We had to listen to one another in order to successfully make a square holding a rope in our hands. We developed a good strategy, we gave instructions, and even more importantly, we followed the instructions given by others, so that when we removed our blind-folds, we were amazed by the result.
This activity developed our sense of unity and of the importance of working together on a problem, because we are more powerful when we act as a team.

Saturday, 30th of September 2017

Human right to water, courses of action + evaluation

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On Saturday we’ll discuss the campaign on human right to water as well as possible courses of action. We’ll also try to engage on a personal level by doing a water footprint of the training course.

We’ll close the program with a evaluation of the course – after that we’ll enjoy our last evening together.

Topics of the day

  • Creative approaches on human right to water
  • Water footprint and the travel-footprint of our training course
  • Courses of action – networking
  • Training course evaluation
  • Farewell evening