Erasmus+ Mobility in Estella-Lizarra- Spain
ECO Echo – a project for sustainability!
Population growth and rapid urbanization are putting increasing pressure on the world's water resources. This poses a serious threat when it comes to ensuring water security for the future. Water connects sectors from energy and forests to agriculture and urban development, and plays a critical role in both climate mitigation and adaptation. As the world becomes warmer, wetter and drier due to climate change, water security has become a global priority. For humans, aquatic ecosystems represent a source of water, food, materials, as well as a space for recreation, commercial fishing, and tourism. Another great importance of water comes with aquatic plants and animals and their ecological functions for our survival. With the conscious use of water, we can avoid pollution and the depletion of our water resources by taking simple measures without harming our quality of life.
In this Erasmus+ mobility, from the ECO Echo project, whose theme has focused on climate change and the sustainability of planet Earth, water, water resources and their conservation were subtopics that, this time, were reasons for reflection, exchanges of opinion and of group interaction. The conclusions and sustainability perspectives for the future emerged, as students and teachers from Portugal, the Basque country (Spain), Turkey, Greece and Estonia have been developing activities and studies for a few months with the aim of changing procedures and starting
Throughout this week, the activities that each country developed in its school and community were presented, including knowledge of the physical space of the Basque school, the language, uses and traditions of this region, its gastronomy and main spaces in the locality. Since the sub-theme .
The project partners visited the shipyard-museum, where they traveled, with the help of a guide, through the history of Basque navigation and observed first-hand the craftsmanship of the carpenters.
We saw and enjoyed a historic replica of the San Juan, a whaling ship built in this port. We ended the day in Donostia-San Sebastian, a coastal city on the Bay of Biscay.
We learned and discovered many historical and orienteering facts as we followed this route. The presence of water in all the routes has always been present in its multiple facets, which is not strange in this part of the French Way to Santiago. A guided tour in Pamplona was an encounter with authentic Castilian culture, discovering Ernest Hemingway, through his literary work “Fiesta”.
was water, the walk to the Natural Park of the River Urederra was of extreme interest as it is a Park and protected area of ​​environmental value, not only for the region but also for Europe. The morning activities of the third day were held in Albaola at the Fábrica do Mar of the Basque boats in Pasaia.
The fourth day was the essence of mobility, as we managed to do the small part of the Camino de Santiago. We feel like true pilgrims.
actions in your daily life. The mobility in Estella-Lizarra (in the Basque country, Spain) took place between October 2 and 8. The sub-theme was “My country's water resources and water protection”.
What we heard faithfully testified to the joy, the picturesque and the wild party, an atmosphere that was lived in this city often visited by this Nobel Prize winner, but which is still felt today when walking through its streets and squares. On the Q-Cumber platform, all partners were able to witness and make known the good and bad things their region has in terms of water and the measures taken for its preservation and sustainability.