Well said, sir.
Well said.
Anyway, we did it, guys! WE DID IT!
8 weeks of consultancy project
12 credits worth
3 beautiful advisors
27 students
11 nationalities
5 geo-reports
1 synthesis report
1 video
and lots of fun! and drinks!!
hahaha
Please introduce our team:
the BGI TEAM of EUW-PRAGUE
*BGI: Blue and Green Infrastructure
The first 3 weeks of the project was soo hectic.
We were divided into 5 geo-groups (district 2,6,7,8 and 13) and 4 expert groups (policy and stakeholder; infrastructure; ecosystem services; scenario and vulnerability).
The students in the same geo group did all the data collecting in the assigned district and wrote the geo report of the district.
While those in the expert groups prepared all the requirements for analysis before going to the field, according to their expertise e.g. observation frame.
Every geo-group consist of at least one expert group's representative and the other way around.
We used a matrix to design the position for everyone so that each student responsible for at least two different roles.
Oh, and there was also a management team, a group of students who coordinated all the things. There has to be 1 management team in each small group.
..Well, enough for this complicated grouping scheme, haha.
After assigning the group, we need to prepare all the things we need for the fieldwork, the long-time discussions about our research objective, questionnaires and the observation frame, contacting all stakeholders to arrange interviews, and the lectures, ah and the expectation paper!
We conducted practice observation and interview and handed out questionnaires for the final check..
..
And off we went to Prague on 26 Oct! Yeay!
photo credit: Kunti May Wulan
photo credit: Kunti May Wulan
photo credit: Kunti May Wulan
photo credit: Fauziah Nur
photo credit: Fauziah Nur
photo credit: Fauziah Nur
Visit Wulan's album if you want to see more photos of our activities in Prague :)
https://www.facebook.com/kmwulan/media_set?set=a.1247309698624699.1073741834.100000370416649&type=3
No, the field work was not as beautiful as the pictures, definitely not. Haha
To sum up our 11 days field trip to Prague:
1. We observed 5 districts (2, 6, 7, 8 and 13), focussing on blue and green infrastructure (mostly on foot!)
2. We did >900 questionnaires (plus mentally exhausted >1000 times)
3. We conducted 12 interviews with relevant stakeholders
4. Some extra lectures, group discussions and presentations, dinners and drinks, birthdays celebrations, pub crawls, city tours, getting lost at the zoo, cooking together, and shoppings! :D
We did night city tour to the Praha Charles Bridge (all ladies) at 11! Hahahaha. Crazy girls.
When the others were having fun at the pub, we decided to have our own tour to the famous bridge. It was closeby anyway.
But it was super fun. And we also experienced a really creepy and super weird time in the tram when we went back to the hostel.
So, suddenly, our tram was stopped by a group of policemen wearing almost all black (of course -_-).
Some were in front of the tram, some were at the back (with the police car next to them), 1-2 were looking into the tram while going around.
I think there was also one who did go into the tram (and communicate with the driver? I'm not that sure because it was so creepy. Heu)
For your information, it was around 1am. Yet the tram was almost full. Some of us were standing.
Only after around 15 minutes, they let us go.
Why and what exactly happened? It's still unresolved mystery :/
Anyway, it was a super great experience with super great partners! :)
We finished the field visit with a final presentation, giving the progress of our research to our client and the stakeholders.
We managed to hold a small but fun workshop with the guests in this event :)
Presenter team :)
Our beautiful supervisors :)
Yay! We did it!!
We went back with 6am flight on Oct 7 to Amsterdam (after a full night of pub crawls for some of us. Hahaa)
The next 3 weeks was even more hectic than the first one.
We need to input all the data, analyse it, create different groups, and write the reports.
We also need to make a video, which we decided to be our creative output for the project :D
The final-final presentation was a success!
We finished all our reports (#crying hard)
We made the video
And not to forget the reflection paper (I submitted it 1 hour late, LOL)
Fiuh!! Finally!
That's all for my unforgetful experiences in the European Workshop :D
It was super fun to work with all the team.
I surely learned a lot of things, which I cannot mention one by one here (or I will end up writing a reflection paper. haha)
May we always be happy and useful for others :)
#PS: everyone got good grade :D
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