A group of 14 students – seven girls from SBGS and seven boys from BHS along with two teachers, visited Cuxhaven in May 2019. They were in Cuxhaven from 3rd May, 2019 to 19th May, 2019. Since 2012, we have been working as partners with Amandeus Abendroth Gymnasium, a secondary school based in Cux Haven (near Hamburg) in Germany and Birla High School. This partnership won the prestigious Robert Bosch grant to work on a project on environment and culture in 2013-14.In 2017, the project on “Sources & Supply” of water to Kolkata and Cuxhaven, was awarded the best International exchange project by the Ministry of Education, Germany. This year too the students are working on the same issue. All the activities conducted in the school in the course of our stay were of special relevance to our project and scientific report. The first of these was a series of presentations that introduced us to the town of Cuxhaven and the disastrous effects of climate change on the town. They started by initiating a discussion on global warming and later moved on to explain how a part of Cuxhaven could be submerged underwater within a period of just 80 years, if the changes were not brought under control. Our students performed experiments based on properties of water and water analysis. After the completion of experiments, the students presented their inference before the entire group. Each presentation was followed by a discussion of the importance of the property of water in the real world. Students also visited The Klimahaus, The Waden Sea and the Water purification plant in Cuxhaven. A comparison between the ecosystems of East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, India and the Wadden Sea, Cuxhaven, Germany was one of the prime focus of the project.
