This project builds on previous successful projects, implemented with the same partners in the past. Their cooperation dates back to 2004. The project partners are schools with similar unique areas of education. These are Fishery, Aquaculture and Environment. The project focuses on these fields. Through the project activities all three schools want to make these areas attractive to students and outline the possibilities of these fields for job opportunities within the EU. We evaluated positively the impact of previous projects on the development of students' language skills and on their motivation to learn languages and on the increased awareness of cultural and professional similarities and differences. The acronym of this project is FUTURE: Food from water Used To Urge Revolution in Eating habits. Indeed, we will be more and more people living on Earth in the years to come and sustainable solutions are to be found to feed this population without even more polluting the planet or running out its resources. We can notice that nowadays there is less and less fish in oceans because of intensive fishing. One solution is aquaculture. In addition to aquaculture, ecological aspects of sustainable food and nutrition, the promotion of fish and seafood or freshwater food, such as light, dietary and nutritious foods, are emerging. It also focuses on introducing new nutritional options for the future, such as the use of microalgae studied in France, research on crayfish and their artificial farming in the Czech Republic, and an introduction of the non-traditional consumption of sea urchins in Norway. The project also uses advanced technologies and applications to enhance ICT skills of students (QR codes, Thinklink, Calameo). The project is that each country has chosen three animal species that represent either traditional and sustainable production of food from the water or the so-called food of the future. Each country will present its aquaculture in presentations and also it will present its three species at the beginning of each learning activity. Modern applications will be used for presentations. Students will get acquainted with them during the project meetings at schools. During the days of learning activities, participants will visit places where these species are farmed or studied. A video of each species will be filmed, and in the video there will be given recommendations on how to process and consume these species. During the learning activities, students will conduct a sensory analysis of each species. Each participating school will compile information on the three species selected for the project. The information will be about biology: anatomy and living conditions (fresh/salt water, water temperature, diet, reproduction, etc), farming and nutritional facts. The text will explain why these species are good for human health. This will be published in an eBook. The book will contain QR codes with video links. In a separate document there will be elaborated the outcomes of a survay among pupils and students regarding the consumption of fish and sea food. Students will visit schools with pupils from 6 to 15 years old and will have a presentation about the project and they will conduct a survey among them. Then they will conduct the same survay in their schools among students from 15 to 20 years old. Each school will organize an exhibition that will introduce the nine species. The exhibition will serve as a promotional event and it will explain why to eat food from water, why it is healthy for people. Students will also create a project logo and they will share the information about the project progress and the results on their eTwinning platform. Activities and outputs have been planned with the view to achieve the objectives of the project - open education in their fields of studies, regarding future trends in aquaculture, enhancing professional skills and knowledge, getting acquainted with European aquaculture and raising awareness of their professional opportunities within the EU, strengthening motivation to learn languages, improving their ICT skills by using new applications and QR codes, creating digital outputs. The outputs will be used as educational materials for the courses of participating schools and schools with related fields of education, as well as for the gastronomy branches or fields dealing with healthy eating and physical condition of the population. General public interested in healthy eating could also benefit from the results of the project.
This project built on previous successful projects, implemented with the same partners in the past. Their cooperation dates back to 2004. The project partners were schools with similar unique areas of education. Those were Fishery, Aquaculture and Environment. The project focused on those fields. Through the project activities all three schools wanted to make these areas attractive to students and outlined the possibilities of these fields for job opportunities within the EU. We evaluated positively the impact of previous projects on the development of students' language skills and on their motivation to learn languages and on the increased awareness of cultural and professional similarities and differences. The acronym of the project is FUTURE: Food from water Used To Urge Revolution in Eating habits. Indeed, there will be more and more people living on Earth in the years to come and sustainable solutions are to be found to feed the population without even more polluting the planet or running out its resources. We can notice that nowadays there is less and less fish in oceans because of intensive fishing. One solution is aquaculture. In addition to aquaculture, ecological aspects of sustainable food and nutrition, the promotion of fish and seafood or freshwater food, such as light, dietary and nutritious foods, were emerging. The project also focused on introduction of new nutritional options for the future, such as the use of microalgae studied in France, research on crayfish and their artificial farming in the Czech Republic, and an introduction of the non-traditional consumption of sea urchins in Norway. The project also used advanced technologies and applications to enhance ICT skills of students (QR codes, Thinklink, Calameo). The project stated that each country had chosen three animal species that represented either traditional and sustainable production of food from the water or the so-called food of the future. Each country presented its aquaculture in presentations and also presented its three species at the beginning of each learning activity. Modern applications were used for presentations. Students got acquainted with them during the project meetings at schools. During the days of learning activities, participants visited places where the species are farmed or studied. A video of each species was filmed, and in the video there were given recommendations on how to process and consume those species. During the learning activities, students conducted a sensory analysis of each species. Each participating school compiled information on the three species selected for the project. The information was about biology: anatomy and living conditions (fresh/salt water, water temperature, diet, reproduction, etc), farming and nutritional facts. The text explained why those species are good for human health. That was published in an eBook. The book contains QR codes with video links. In a separate document there are elaborated the outcomes of a survay among pupils and students regarding the consumption of fish and sea food in the Czech Republic. Students did a survey among pupils from 6 to 15 years old and at the same time presented the project FUTURE. Then they did the same survay in their school among students from 15 to 20 years old. Due to Coronavirus pandemy it was not possible to do such a survey in other countries. Each school organized an exhibition that introduced the nine species. The exhibition served as a promotional event and it explained why to eat food from water, why it is healthy for people. Those events were affected by pandemy as well. They were postponed or interupted due to different restrictions. Students also created a project logo and they shared the information about the project progress and the results on their eTwinning platform. Activities and outputs were planned with the view to achieve the objectives of the project - open education in their fields of studies, regarding future trends in aquaculture, enhancing professional skills and knowledge, getting acquainted with European aquaculture and raising awareness of their professional opportunities within the EU, strengthening motivation to learn languages, improving their ICT skills by using new applications and QR codes, creating digital outputs. The outputs are used as educational materials for the courses of participating schools and schools with related fields of education, as well as for the gastronomy branches or fields dealing with healthy eating and physical condition of the population. General public interested in healthy eating could also benefit from the results of the project because the materials are freely available.