About our project

The project's aim is to enrich the students' knowledge about the theme and to sensitize them about the necessity to preserve our most precious natural resource " the water", in order to control two worrying aspects of modern times: pollution and waste, whose effects are menacing the equilibrium of the biosphere and are causing the collapse of the " sustainable progress".

Futhermore, the water will be considered in different fields and in its multifaceted meanings.

Economic, scientific, social, political and cultural aspects will be discussed and the students will also be awoken of the importance of water in its symbolic and allegorical representations through the traces left by man in the course of the centuries, in the European countries involved in the project. Consequently water will become a symbol of the past times, of the present days and of the future with all possible implications.

OBJECTIVES

Studying the chemical-physical characteristics of water and the ecosystem of the seas, lakes and rivers
Analysing the formation of the water-bearing and the treatment of natural waste water
Observing the characteristics of mineral and thermal waters
Debating the issues linked with the hydrogeological cycle
Discussing the social and political aspects connected with water: water pollution, natural waste water treatment, sustainable progress, water shortage, distribution and preservation of water.
Sensitizing the students on the necessity of collaboration among the European countries, in order to improve the use of water, through the exchange of experiences, technology and knowledge
Recognizing the symbolic and allegorical meaning of water in the literary production and artistic expressions: water as a source of inspiration of poetry, sculpture and painting.
Eliciting an interest for the historical monuments and local past traces: fountains, dams, Roman waterworks, Grottos, water mills.
Reflecting on the historical meaning of fluvial and maritime routes as a commercial and cultural links between different populations
Reading the myths and the ancient legends connected with water
Recognizing the symbolic representation of the water in contemporary artistic production
Discovering the international organizations and the results of European summits on issues relating to water and environment, encouraging a wider perspective on the topic