5-Day Field Trip in Portugal

As part of the MAEH programme in Portugal, students will participate in a 5-day field trip across several locations in Portugal. In this trip (2022/23), students participated in the following activities:

– Sampling in the Guadiana Estuary, with students getting to witness how several pieces of sampling equipment work
– Boat tour around the Alqueva dam with the purpose of highlighting the importance of the dam for the Algarve region
– Seminars about rivers and water ecosystems at the University of Evora
– Guided tour to the marshland of Paul da Tornada, in Caldas da Rainha,
– Visit to the Obidos Lagoon
– Guided tour around the Lisbon Aquaduct. Students get to learn why and how the aquaduct was built, and explore the tunnels through which the water would flow.
– Visit to the water tretament plant in Carrapateira.

In addition, students also get a bit of time to explore the several locations they visited, including Evora, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon and Vila Nova de Mil Fontes.

EVENT 02

Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings.