The Horse 2020/21

I hope that we can do a successfull interview with my half sister, where we will find out a lot about our project topic.

I hope that our research will bring us more valuable information.

I hope that the collaboration with the team from Kerala will work out well.

I hope that our survey will show us, how people think about herbal medicine and how much they know about it.

I really hope we can do an interview with a clothing store here in Switzerland where we find out a lot of information about our project topic.

I hope that we will get the information we need from our collaboration teams and can use them good for our project.

I hope our triangle works well and we can support each other in our projects.

I hope we will find as many people as possible to participate at our survey. It will show us if people are interested in the sustainability of the clothes they buy or if they don't care about it.

I hope that our research is going on well and we will get as much information as possible.

The last week over eastern, our group started the concept of an online survey about the future of mobilities, so we can see what the opinions are worldwide. This is really interesting for us and we hope that we get quite many answers from many other countries. We plan to publish the link in the biggest car-group there is online! We hope that we see some different opinions as ours so we can compare them and decide, if e-cars have a good reputation outside of Switzerland.

Furthermore, we started the base for our website. It was quite an easy start, as we already have some experience in building a website. We’ve read quite some interesting articles about electric cars, hybrid cars and “normal” fuel cars so we can already start writing some texts for our site. We created this time plan for the next few parts of our projects: Timeplan future mobility.pdf (180,25 kb)

Last Friday was a great day for our project to! We’ve seen some news articles, that Toyota, one of the biggest cars manufactures in the world, has invested 210 million US-Dollars in a new engine-production-location in West Virginia! This was quite interesting to read because we don’t think that such a big company as Toyota would invest money in “an old” technology if they don’t believe in it. In our opinion this is a sign, that car manufactures may consider only going to produce e-cars but also newer, environmentally friendlier fuel cars. 

 
A Picture of Toyotas new plant in west Virginia.

As I’m really connected in the “car-scene” in Switzerland and also know many car guys in Europe, I know that one of the main reasons that these peoples wouldn’t buy an electric car is, that they haven’t got any emotions at all. For nearly every car guy its important, that the cars don’t just look good and perform well, but they should have emotions while driving. That doesn’t mean they must be in 0-100 km/h or be insanely loud, but they should feel great for instance while driving a curve. Personally, that’s also one of the main, if not the main reason, for me to actually not buy a e-car as they have 0 emotions. I’m really looking forward to test-driving one so I can actually see if my personal opinion was right or not. Currently Jarno and I are planning to test drive a Tesla Model S (Performance), which is one of the highest rated e-cars on the market. Unfortunately, it will be quite hard to actually test drive a car and do a video about it, because we mostly won’t be able to go on the test drive alone, as many car resellers don’t allow test drives in modern cars, especially not for people under 25 years.

Another great achievement we actually acquired last week was our first contact with one of your partners from other countries. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a response from our partners in the bask country.

We have made first contact with Dejan Radmanovic. He studied economics and got a master degree in 2015, was the head of the finance and treasury department in two of the biggest banks on the whole Balkan. Currently, he is the head of Actuary in the Dunav insurance, which is the biggest insurance company in Serbia and Bosnia. He is an expert in economics. That’s the reason, why we contacted him. While we researched many sources, we saw that the European union is trying to make a regulation, in which fuel and diesel ban until 2030. We asked ourselves if that’s even realistic for the whole Europe. I got the idea that we could ask an expert in a region which isn’t as rich as Switzerland or Germany on his or her opinion if that is realistic. We decided that the Balkan meets our criteria and we started to research a good person. On this way we found Mr. Radmanovic, because we found many interviews internationally and were thinking, that he is not only an expert, but also willing to do a small cooperation with us. We will be in contact with him this Friday afternoon.

A picture of Dejan Radmanović, one of our partners.

These are the questions we are going to ask my half-sister in the interview next week:

1. How did you start this line of work? Why did you choose it? (What would be interesting about this job)  
2. What are the positive sides of herbal medicine? (To see the benefits) 
3. What are the negative sides of herbal medicine? (To know about the dangers) 
4. Would you always recommend using herbal medicine? If not, why? (Her opinion about it)
5. Why is it, that some countries use more natural remedies and others don’t? (What is it like in other countries?) 
6. What kind of plants can be used for medical reasons? (How many plants are there?) 
7. Which ones do you think actually help? Which ones do you use? (Her experience and opinion) 
8. Is there a chance of reduction in the number/amount of medical plants available due to constant usage? Have you ever faced such a situation, or do you think there will be a situation like that in the future? (Possible shortage of medical plants)
9. Artificial fertilizers can also reduce the effect of medical plants. What opinion do you have about that statement? (Are artifical fertilizers dangerous for the medical plants?) 
10. How is the use of medical plants beneficial or harmful for the environment? (Does it affect the environment?) 

We are positive, that this interview will go very well and give us important information for our project.

Anabel & Karla

The ARA Mönchaltorf is built for 4000 people. It was installed in the year 1971. The last extension was 2003. The water is drawn from the Aabach and the Greifensee.
In Mönchaltorf, the following steps are processed:
1. Preliminary sedimentation
2. Activated sludge plant with deep aeration
3. Nitrification / denitrification
4. Chemical phosphate elimination
5. Wastewater filtration

Source:
moenchaltorf.ch
zh.ch

For my waste water, the ARA Bubikon / Wolfhausen is responsible. It covers 3558 people from Bubikon and Wolfhausen (2018). The size of the sewer is actually for 5000 inhabitants. 

In Bubikon there is also a second ARA called Weidli, this one covers also some people from Bubikon but also the people from Dürnten. It was founded in 1972 and the ARA Bubikon / Wolfhausen in 1951. 

The waters the ARA's use is the lake of Zurich and the Klausbauch.
 

ARA Bubikon (PDF, zh.ch)

Survey about diseases of trees and foreign plants in the city of Zurich

Hi everyone

I'm a student from the WKVW in Switzerland and I'm making a project with Kevin about diseases of trees and foreign plants in the city of Zurich.
We made a survey to learn about this topic from different countries and we would really appreciate it if your students could fill out this survey!

The survey you can find here: https://www.umfrageonline.ch/s/acf71bf

We are at your disposal for any questions and uncertainties.

Best regards,
Kevin and Tamara

What we have accomplished so far: (4^th February - 1^st April)

• We have contacted Anabel’s half-sister, who works with herbal medicine, to do an interview with.
• We have prepared the interview questions.
• We have recorded our audio pitch (Post: Audio pitch)
• We have contacted a team from Kerala and successfully formed a collaboration.
• We have thought of some questions for a survey and started to prepare the survey for publishing.

Things we do every week

• Update our word document where we write down our progress.
• Send the project progress document to the team from Kerala to keep them updated.

8^th April

• Start with our internet research.
• Continue with preparation of the survey.

15^th April

• Do the interview with Anabel’s half-sister.

22^nd April

• Finish up our survey and publish it.
• Put the interview in writing.

13^th May

• Continue with our internet research.
• Maybe create a website informing about herbal medicine.

20^th May

• Evaluate the results of our survey.
• Continue with our internet research.

27^th May

• Join all parts of our product. (Research, interview, survey and product of the team from Kerala)

BEFORE

• Brainstorming Task
• Formulate title of the task
• Searching after content
• Setting aims
• Searching international collaboration partner
• Searching cooperation partner in surroundings
• Contact the partners
• Finding matching parts
• Elevator Pitch
• Organizing the Bees
• Find the perfect space to place the bee-house

DURING

• Make photos
• Update observing descriptions
• Update “The Horse”-Hompepage
• Stay weekly in contact with the collaboration partners
• Write the work down

AFTER

• Upload the work with all contents
• Be rated
• Personally reflect the work and find improving points for the next time

There you see our first exact project plan.

(I) Names of research team
Livia and Sandrine