Educational programmes that turn learning into experience

InnoWATER Edu

Hands-on learning, interactive experiments, and engaging activities centered on water conservation, plastic pollution, and environmental awareness.

During the InnoWATER Edu program, students explore key issues surrounding water conservation and plastic pollution through fun, hands-on activities. Students conduct hands-on experiments, examine samples under microscopes, and work in teams to solve exciting missions. Participants gain first-hand insight into the world of water conservation and the environmental impact of plastic use, while discovering practical solutions to address and prevent environmental damage.

The Path of Plastics in the Environment

Using a world map with magnetic pieces, teams track the journey of plastic from everyday use into nature, through our waterways, and ultimately into the human body. Students explore the environmental impact of PET bottles, microfibers, packaging materials, and abandoned fishing nets.

Microplastics

Using a glass vase, participants observe how micro-sized particles and pollutants spread and behave in water. They discover how particles and dyes disperse and the challenges involved in water purification.

Textile Analysis

By examining synthetic and natural fabric samples, participants explore the unique properties of different materials and discover how microplastics and microfibers enter the environment through everyday habits such as washing synthetic clothes.

Aquatic Organisms and Water Quality

Using visual identification cards, students identify aquatic species and categorize them according to water quality indicators. They explore the direct link between living organisms, pollution and freshwater ecosystem health.

Microscopy and Microscopic Life

Students explore the fascinating world of microscopic organisms and freshwater biodiversity by examining slides prepared from stream water and other natural sources, while learning how to use microscopes.

Chemical Water Analysis

Students test water quality and assess various parameters. They gain hands-on experience in chemistry, biology and environmental protection while comparing and interpreting their results.

Preventing Plastic Waste in Daily Life

Students learn about proper waste management, eco-friendly alternatives to plastics and recycling, exploring practical solutions that can be applied at home and at school.

Interactive Knowledge Roundup

Through matching communication games, memory games and a complex team competition, participants review and deepen the knowledge gained across all sessions while strengthening communication and problem-solving skills.

StorkLand

An interactive, experience-based educational programme centred on the world of the white stork.

It is an interactive, experience-based educational opportunity for children that develops their spatial awareness, social and interpersonal skills, and concentration. Ideal for the 5–8 age group, it presents the physiology of white storks in light of natural science and pedagogical foundations. The program has a maximum duration of 120 minutes and can accommodate up to 30 participants, where children take part in various interactive tasks through teamwork. During the program, participants can learn about the lifestyle, migration habits, feeding biology of the white stork, and the threats facing the species through 7 different activities.

Flying Facts

Warm-up questions and answers about storks, in an interactive group setting through collaboration.

Stork Relatives

With the help of a magnetic board, children recognize various stork species and place them onto their corresponding places of origin.

The Year of the Stork

A rotating wheel based on the 12 months and the physiological cycle and activities of storks. Children match each month with the corresponding activity and stage of the life cycle.

Stork Stomach Basketball

Using a basket and balls, children throw food items into the basket to learn what storks eat. The basket symbolizes the stork’s stomach and the balls represent food items.

The Great Journey

Children place four transparent overlays onto the map and use them to follow storks from their breeding grounds along their migration pathways.

Measure Up to the Stork

Children stand beside a life-size painted stork and compare their own height and arm span with the stork’s height, wingspan and beak.

Bird Banding

Children receive printed stork photos and a blank research datasheet. They complete it with fictitious data, gaining insight into real bird banding and research documentation.

Forest Mission

An escape-room-inspired team game about the brown bear and human–bear coexistence.

The escape room-inspired team game is designed for students in grades 5–8 (ages 10–14) and is built around logical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving, and scientific knowledge. At the core of this mysterious set of tasks are large carnivores, primarily the brown bear, as well as the question of human–bear coexistence. The children take part in an imaginary hike where they decipher codes, search for hidden messages, identify scents, and solve map and compass tasks. During the activity, they learn about bears’ eating habits, food sources, sense of smell, and movement, as well as how human presence and improperly managed food or waste can attract bears close to inhabited areas.

During the game, participants acquire biological, ecological, nature conservation, and geographical knowledge. They learn key conflict prevention strategies, essential rules for responsible hiking, and how to behave if they encounter a bear while outdoors. By the end of the game, the children gain not only new knowledge, but also the experience of collaborative problem-solving, teamwork, and responsible outdoor exploration.

Related educational areas: biology, general science, geography, ecology, nature conservation, and environmental education.