Sorigué and the RIVUS Foundation sign a new collaboration agreement for the financing of the environmental education line
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Sorigué and the RIVUS Foundation sign a new collaboration agreement for the financing of the environmental education line
October 29, 2024
The agreement refers to the year 2024 and will focus on the educational programme “Discover the river”
The RIVUS Foundation and the company Sorigué have signed a collaboration agreement for the financing of part of the environmental education line promoted by the Foundation. This agreement represents the continuity of the collaboration of this company with the entity, which already signed an agreement in 2022.
The event, which took place at the headquarters of the Besòs Tordera Consortium, was attended by Josep Monràs, president of the RIVUS Foundation, and Juan Ignacio García de Miguel, general director of Water and Industry at Sorigué.
The agreement foresees a contribution by Sorigué of 13,000 euros, for the year 2024, which will be allocated to finance one of the Foundation’s main lines of activity, environmental education, which is mainly channelled through the educational programme Discover the river — which also includes the “Discover the river” Drawing Contest — and the Sergi Mingote Academic Works award.
Josep Monràs, president of the Foundation, expressed words of gratitude towards Sorigué: “We are very satisfied and grateful to be able to count, once again, on Sorigué to carry forward our environmental education line. This type of collaboration is essential to continue developing these projects aimed at raising awareness among citizens in general and, more specifically, among future generations.”
For his part, Juan Ignacio García, general director of Water and Industry at Sorigué, highlighted that “we live in a world with limited resources and we must be aware of the need to preserve, to conserve and to commit to the circularity of a resource as valuable as water. For this reason, at Sorigué we highly value supporting the great work carried out by the RIVUS Foundation with its environmental education line based on these values.”
The commitment of the RIVUS Foundation to environmental education
Launched in the 1993–1994 academic year, the environmental education programme Discover the river offers a wide range of proposals (workshops, outings and classroom activities) for the second cycle of Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) and Baccalaureate. In the last academic year it received more than 6,500 students. The objective is to strengthen the study of the Besòs and Tordera basins and to better understand the water cycle and the functioning of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP).
Since 2016, the Sergi Mingote Academic Works award has been held annually, with the aim of recognising those works by students of Baccalaureate and Vocational Training cycles dedicated to addressing a specific aspect among the many related to water or river systems, preferably of the Besòs and Tordera basins, from environmental as well as social, historical, technological and/or cultural perspectives.
With all these initiatives, the Foundation works to convey to citizens the importance of preserving, understanding, respecting and consciously enjoying river environments and all the biodiversity they contain, as well as making responsible use of water resources.