Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg est la capitale de la région Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine dans le nord-est de la France et est également le siège officiel du Parlement européen. Strasbourg est située à la frontière orientale de la France avec l'Allemagne. Cette frontière est formée par le Rhin. Le Conseil de l'Europe et la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme sont également situés à Strasbourg. La Cathédrale de Strasbourg est le symbole de la ville.

Il existe une grande variété d'activités sportives à Strasbourg. Dans des installations sportives de haute qualité, vous pouvez jouer à une variété d'activités, des matchs de football aux matchs de tennis.

La ville offre un large éventail de possibilités créatives, des festivals animés aux expositions captivantes. Les musées, les théâtres et les galeries d'art contribuent à la dynamique de la vie culturelle.

Les spécialités régionales comme la choucroute sont très populaires. La ville offre une large gamme de saveurs, des restaurants traditionnels aux marchés animés.

Strasbourg propose un large éventail d'options d'hébergement pour une expérience complète. Parmi les hôtels très bien notés figurent « Le Grand Hôtel » et « l’Hôtel tandem ».

En gravissant la tour de la cathédrale, haute de 142 m, vous pourrez profiter d'une large vue sur le Rhin. La petite France est une d’attraction très populaire. Vous pouvez faire une promenade romantique dans les petites rues pavées étroites ou vous attarder sur l'une des belles places. Vous pouvez également faire du shopping à votre guise dans une rue piétonne très fréquentée, populaire auprès des locaux et des touristes. Le Palais Rohan abrite aujourd'hui trois musées intéressants le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, le Musée des Beaux-Arts et le Musée Archéologique.

L'audio: https://qrco.de/benIWj

Exercice 1: https://learningapps.org/watch?v=paenuandn24 

Exercice 2: https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pc226t51c24

31^st Caretakers of the Environment Conference

 Oregon, USA

July 1 - July 11, 2017 

 AUSTRIAN CEI DELEGATION 2017

Day 1 and 2 

We started our journey on the 1^st of July in the morning at 3 a.m. With a shuttle bus we went to the airport Vienna-Schwechat and took the plane at 6.55 a.m. to Amsterdam. During this first flight nearly everyone fell asleep and was trying to catch up some missed sleep from the night before. After our arrival in Amsterdam, we spent an hour for the extensive security checks due to the American safety regulations. When we were finally allowed to enter the USA, we were quite late for our flight and so we ran over the airport in order not to miss it.

Fortunately, we left Amsterdam on time with the Delta Airline plane at 9.55 a.m. We passed our time with chatting, listening to music, eating and, of course, sleeping. Time flew away, and after 10 hours of flight, we finally arrived in Portland at 11.30 a.m. After some final security checks, we luckily all had our luggage and stood in front of the airport.

There we already met some other participants from Poland and also from Hong Kong. All of us were really excited and we were looking forward to arriving at the Wester Oregon University. After our busses had arrived, we went to the University with one of these typical orange American school busses. Tired of the long journey, we were happy to move into our nice rooms. After a short settling-in period, we completed the feeling of the university life as we went over to the cafeteria and had one of many following traditional American dinners, including pizza and fries.

Repleted and exhausted we collapsed into bed, looking forward to the next day and to meeting all the nice people from all over the world.

Birgit Gall

CEI 2017: Salem/USA: Following Nature’s Example (1)

This year’s Austrian project is carried out by 36 students of the Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium Judenburg attending the biology course BEE (Biological and Environmental Experiences in English). Out of this group 11 students will join the CEI-conference in Oregon.

In relation to the sustainable “Styrian Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change 2050” released in September 2015, we continued the long term cooperation with the environmental department of the municipality of Judenburg also in this year  to implement the strategy in three fields: education and global responsibility, household of water and water-management, conservation and biodiversity.

„Sustainable Measurements Supporting Ecosystems in the Alpine Region: Dealing with Neobiota”

Project Group Austria 1

 

Established ecosystems live on rich biodiversity of organisms providing these systems with stability and resilience. However, three percent of Europian neobiota are invasive species, bringing harm to the area where they live in and reproduce.  

In addition to that we wanted to find out: Why are these organisms so successful? What do they cause? Can we stop them becoming established here? Can we do something when they are already established?

Therefore we supported the preparation of factsheets on local invasive plants for the citizens of Judenburg. The local inhabitants will soon get access to project results and information on the municipality’s homepage and local pharmacies will hand out folders containing project information.

Hands on weeding of invasive species with local asylum seekers will help decrease these species and enhance stability of local ecosystems. In summer 2017 the project group will monitor the hand-weeded areas and data will be evaluated. 

We then supported work on the second module of information boards about typical and rare alpine flora and its needs and again erected them in the alpine region in order to increase people´s consciousness.

CEI 2017: Salem/USA: Following Nature’s Example (2)

„Sustainable Measurements Supporting Ecosystems in the Alpine Region: Mountain Waters and Human Influence” 

Project Group Austria 2

In 2017 we continued the analysis of two small lakes in the alpine area without human influence and two other lakes with swimming area and regeneration area for wildlife. Then we again compared the results of the investigation about these aquatic ecosystems to find out about this year’s changes due to a long cold period of minus 20 degrees centigrade for all four and human influence on two lakes. This project module comprised excursions and activities in a dinghy, taking samples and laboratory work using reversing microscope.

And we wanted to find out for the rivers and lakes: How do different ways of using mountain water influence physically and chemical factors? Which saprobies, plankton and bacteria do we find? 

Therefore, we accomplished ecological projects, some of them together with primary students of the 3^rd form at our school pond and the Oberweg creek. We continued with chemical, physical and biological studies of the river Pöls and the four lakes. The results are presented to the public as part of a special art project called “Humility” with the aim to increase appreciation for an intact nature.

CEI 2017: Salem/USA: Following Nature’s Example (3)

„Sustainable Measurements Supporting Ecosystems in the Alpine Region: Sustainable Wood Management”

Project Group Austria 3 

We  started an ecological geocaching project on sustainable Styrian wood management in cooperation with a local paper mill, the Technical University of Graz and Pro Wood Styria. We wanted to answer the following questions: Which adaptions to climate change do we find in forestry plant growth? Which type of wood is used for paper production? How does pulp and paper production use product cycles? What is the paper mill’s impact on the environment?

The visit of LIECO, a company that grows different species of trees adapted to European altitudinal belts showed, that climate change is a factor we have to deal with today. Water analysis activities were carried out at the river Pöls, that is providing the paper mill with water and work in the laboratory of the Technical University of Graz was done.
In autumn we will present our results in a geocache around the valley the paper mill is located.

An interview with Dr. Vogel, CEO ZPA Pöls, showed that the company also does research in cooperation with the technical University of Graz to enhance the use of substances being produced in pulp and paper production like the organic polymer lignin and the by-product tall oil.

The interview with the mayor of Pöls showed that there are sustainable efforts to deal with climate change.

 

CEI Conference 2016 - Resume

CEI Conference 2016 - Resume

After breakfast in Copenhagen and a 5h train ride from Copenhagen to Aalborg, we finally arrived at the train station and immediately got picked up by the conference’s Crew members. As soon as we got to the military base (yes, a real Danish military base!!), we were quite impressed of how big the place was, where we gonna spend the following six days. We got into our rooms and met all of our roommates for the week, which we instantly got on well with. 

The first day at the CEI Conference started at 8 am with the traditional “Morning Assembly”, where we got to know the Crew members, the Young guides as well as the board members. Soon after we gathered some further information, we attended our first workshop, meaning that were able to visit Aalborg City and its local, sustainable mussel farm. The owner of the team, which involves around 150 people who harvest

First stop: Copenhagen and Malmö

We started off our journey at 3am in Judenburg, where we were ready to head to Vienna airport in order to take our flight to Copenhagen. There we would spend 3 days full of sight-seeing, shopping, eating (of course) and lots of fun. After a safe flight, we were ready to get to know the city of fashion and architecture with its famous monuments like the little mermaid.

On the first day right after our arrival in Denmark, we immediately decided to go for the simplest method and go on a boat tour through Copenhagen. We got to see beautiful sights for example Nyhavn, Christiania Freetown and of course, the little mermaid. Accompanied by the surprisingly great weather, we enjoyed the boat tour as well as the great entertainment of Mr Fiechtl. As for one of the most important things on our journey – food – we decided to visit “Papiroen Food Market” and tasted different meals from all over the world.