Why partnerships?
We wanted to be as reliable as possible, so we needed some experts and some locals to help us with the essentials. Here are those who helped us in finding the best solutions, applied to specific cases of Techirghiol.
We wanted to be as reliable as possible, so we needed some experts and some locals to help us with the essentials. Here are those who helped us in finding the best solutions, applied to specific cases of Techirghiol.
To find out what is going on in Techirghiol, we made a partnership between our team’s school and Techirghiol’s secondary school and highschool, “Emil Racoviță” National College. In this partnership, among other activities, we did some social studies as well, so that we can be sure that our solutions were targeting the real problems. And we found out some good and some bad things.
When we went to Techirghiol for mud and water to run some experiments on it, we met the manager of the Techirghiol sanatorium, Ms. Elena-Roxana Tucmeanu. We want to thank her for all the books and magazines that she gave us. They were very interesting to read!
Serban Alexandru Student MSc Hydraulic Engineering at TU Delft & Lavinia Alexandru IBDP student at Rotterdam International Secondary School
To save the perisip, the thin section of earth that divides the lake from the sea, we called our friend, Serban Alexandru, Hydraulic Engineer, to help us. And he suggested we implement a breakwater. But what is a breakwater you might think? It is a thin perpendicular earth piece. There are 2 main breakwaters: ones for beaches and ones for harbors.
To find out more about this solution, please consider visiting the solutions page, where we talked more about this.
Sustainability is not a competition, sustainability is a need and requires synchronisation in the approach and synergy between projects. And that's why us and the winners of the 13 years old student contest had a talk and made our ideas work together.