H2O Map
The 5th H2OMap virtual meeting focused on detailing the 3 multiplier events scheduled in September and the learning activity scheduled in October. Very excited to move forward with the project!
H2OMap partners meet on July 8th, to evaluate the activities carried out during the course as well as schedule the start of the 2021/2022 academic year with the hope of being able to start carrying out face-to-face international activities.
Last Saturday May 29, Laura Menéndez participated in the “Erasmus+ and Education” conference held at the Vall de Uixó auditorium, where a round table was held where we had the opportunity to speak about the H2O Map project in a roundtable with other very interesting projects.
“Archeology of l’architecture in the province of Castelló. Patrimonialització, cataloging and web design with a didactic and tourism management instrument ”is a research project that the FACSA Chair of the Jaume I University supports and that we would like to bring you closer to, since its objective is to value the architectural value of the historical hydraulic heritage.
In the lands of Castellón, a rich architecture related to the transport and management of water has been set up for centuries, which has aroused great interest by carrying out valuable work aimed at cataloging and protecting the aforementioned hydraulic heritage. . However, it is common today to find abandoned structures, as in use, to which an uncertain chronology is attributed.
The project proposes to move towards a greater knowledge of construction techniques and the use of materials applied to hydraulic architecture, not only in ancient and medieval chronologies, but also modern ones. Because these works have not only been repaired on countless occasions, but when a documentary follow-up is made, transformations and technical improvements are evident, which represents a great opportunity for archeology. Indeed, from an archaeological point of view, there is an important gap in the study of the hydraulic material culture of Roman, medieval and modern times. In fact, we know almost nothing about the long-term evolution of these constructions and, therefore, about the changes that took place in each epoch, assuming that these were practically the same between the 13th and 19th centuries, when in reality, we know they weren’t.
This project began in 2021 with the study of aqueducts built to bridge gaps, specifying the origins and linking them to the possibilities as a resource for local and tourist development in the province. Over the course of three years, the cataloging of the buildings dedicated to water abstraction, distribution and distribution through ditches and underground conduction mines, other auxiliary works will be completed, and finally, the uses of the water through power generating facilities.
Several members of the different partner institutions joined online in the Second Transnational Meeting of the H2O Map project.
In it, the the new private area of the web was explained. This branch of the web is a process that has been a work-in-progress for months and that is finally operational. This section of the website has been developed with the aim of facilitating management, centralizing it in a single space adapted to the needs of the project.
In addition, the progress of the intellectual outputs, the date of the course for secondary school teachers and the Learning activity for students were extensively explained.
Finally, initiatives that are being carried out to disseminate the project in the different high schools were shared, such as the initiative that the students of the Agrupamento de Escolas de Campo Maior organized.
H2O Map has held its third virtual meeting in which all the partners have participated.
In this meeting, the advances that have been made recently in the development of intellectual outputs, such as the e-learning course, have been exposed.
Another issue that has been discussed is the current pandemic situation and how it can condition for the first Learning and Training Activity.
Finally, the partners spoke about the dissemination actions that will be carried out.
The Penyagolosa high school from Castelló, Spain has held a meeting with third-year students to inform them about the objectives of H2O Map, the members that make up the project and the Learning, teaching and Training Activities in which themselves will be able to participate.
This meeting, in addition, has also served to initiate the selection process of the students who will participate in the mobility that will take place in June in Spain. This activity will be hosted by the IES Penyagolosa, with the close collaboration of the Jaume I University of Castellón, and 10 Italian students and 10 Portuguese students will participate in it. This activity aims at facilitating high quality and innovative transnational learning to enrich theoretical competences with practical skills related to ICT tools and hydraulic heritage.
The H2O Map Project has joined eTwinning, a platform that is part of the Erasmus+ program, in which teachers, students, schools, families and local administrations cooperate to carry out educational projects.
The registration of H2O Map on this platform represents a step forward in the development of the project since it will allow the active participation of the different educational agents to carry out activities using ICT.
In addition, the eTwinning platform offers numerous resources for the training of teachers and students, allowing them to interact with the rest of the educational centers belonging to the project.
Yesterday, December 22, the participating partners of the H2O Map project met for the first time to organize and specify the development of the activities that will be carried out throughout the next year 2021.
During the meeting examples were shown to understand the possibilities of data collection, mapping and analysis that can be done with the ICT tools that the project is going to develop.
In addition, the activities in which the team is currently working were reviewed: the methodological guide, the online course for teachers and the educational multiplatform. For each of these activities, a coordinator, a task list and a deadline have been established.
Finally, due to the pandemic, scheduling changes have been made in relation to the learning, training and teaching activities (LTTAs) in March, which will be moved to June if the situation permits.
In the coming weeks we will continue working hard to move the project forward and we hope to make a lot of progress next year 2021.
Last Monday, November 30, we attended the Virtual Conference of Initial Support for #ErasmusPlus 2020 (KA201, KA202, KA203 and KA204) Strategic Association Projects organized by the Spanish Service for the internationalization of Education (SEPIE).
The conferences have taken place over a period of three days and, in these, various useful topics have been addressed to manage an Erasmus + project in a successful way.
Some of the topics covered have been: recommendations on how to make a good strategy to communicate an Erasmus + project, how to adapt to the situation generated by COVID-19 and aspects related to management.
More information about the conference on the SEPIE’s website 👉 http://sepie.es/comunicacion/jornadas/2020-jornadas-sepie.html
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