Hey Guys,
We asked our interview and collaboration partners if we could use a photo of them for our project, and they all said no.
We as a team have also decided not to publish a photo of ourselves in order to protect our privacy.
We hope you understand that!
Greetings
Belinda and Luisa
It has been about two weeks since I last had contact with Ms Kappeler by e-mail. I am still very happy that she wants to help me with my project. Unfortunately, she is always on the road and it is difficult to get in touch with her. I thought it would be easier if I just gave her a call and we made an appointment. Unfortunately, despite my numerous attempts, she has never picked up the phone. Even leaving a message on the answering machine didn't help. I assume she is abroad on business and has no opportunity to make a phone call. Anyway, I will try again, again by phone. Wish me luck!
As there have been some developments with my collaborators, I would like to provide a brief update.
- The meeting with the wastewater treatment team from Rüti went smoothly, and I have an audio recording to transcribe the discussions.
- I have also managed to secure Ms. Alexandra Kappeler as a collaboration partner. She is an expert in wastewater management both domestically and internationally. She is currently in Ethiopia this week, but I will try to contact her next week to finalize the details.
I am happy that this has worked out, as it will give me the opportunity to gain insights into wastewater management practices in another country.
What I have tried so far:
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(07.02.2023) The first opportunity to find a collaboration partner was during an organized team meeting with students from India with Mrs. Suter. The students had the opportunity to briefly look at our projects. Unfortunately, nobody was interested in mine. This could be due to the fact that unlike other projects, mine was only described very briefly.More...
As a collabartion partner I could win my former primary school teacher. He lived in Thailand for several years and still has contacts from there. I would like to ask him what the sewage situation is like there. I wrote down some questions that I could ask him:More...
We made a groupchat with the student Sivani from Kerala and wrote her a message with the informations about our project and suggestions on how we could collaborate. She immediately answered us and now we all can begin with our research!
From Luisa and Belinda
Since I have not been able to find any collaboration partners so far, I would like to give some thought to who else I could ask for this.
1. In primary school I had a teacher who lived for a few years in south africa and thailand. I could ask him, if he knows anyone who could I ask. Maybe he has also some informations for me.
2. I could ask WWF if they can give me some further information about wastewater treatment in other countries. Especially in eastern or african countries (https://www.wwf.ch/de/ueber-uns/kontaktformular)
3. Another option is Helvtas. They provide humanitarian help in the most poor countries (https://www.helvetas.org/de/schweiz/wer-wir-sind/kontakt)
4. Eawag is a water research institute with international roots. Perhaps they can tell me about the conditions in other countries (https://www.eawag.ch/de/ueber-uns/portraet/auftrag-und-strategie/)
Ideas from the teacher:
1. Alexandra Kappeler 1st degree connection1st
Programme Manager & Deputy Head of Expert Group «Construction»
alexandra.kappeler@gmail.com
2. WASH ExpertWASH Expert
Swiss Humanitarian Aid SHA, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA
3. https://www.eawag.ch/en/department/sandec/
Special Idea:
The company „Vuna“ provides a different method for wastewater. Maybe I can integrate it in my project (https://vuna.ch)
Hello everybody
Here is a picture of artificial snow.
As time goes on, global warming makes it very likely that we will have less natural snow in our ski resorts. Through that, the need for artificial snow will rise and with it the energy consumption for it.
Our project group has the goal to shine a light on this problem.
We will keep you updated.
Kind regards
Team ski-resort
Since the collaborators in India have no relation to ski resorts, we assume that therefore no one is interested in our project. However, we are still full of motivation and are happy to announce Sedric as our newest team member. If any collaborator is interested in the future, they are always welcome to join us.
Update:
Unfortunately, we have no other interested parties so far. We continue to work and hope to awaken the interest of the collaborators.
The original team composition is Inês & Alisha.
We created a mindmap and added it to the mural.
We already had a first call in class with the students from India, where we presented our project,
but no one has shown interest. Due to this we haven't had any further interaction with the students from india.
The idea of asking Aleksandra Stühff, Deputy Head of Department Economy at NZZ, came to us.
Alisha will be working on contacting her, because she also work for NZZ.