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Epilogue Our project Cononect has co- me to its end. It got a difficult start, because initally it was refused by the jury twice for grants. Actually it got enough points, but the credits by the EU were not high enough to grant every good project. But we persevered and thanks to my Swedish colleagues it was reworked and finally, two years later, we got the money to start. I learned a lot from it, it was far more than worth the effort. The students had a uni- que experience, but we the teachers perhaps even more. Canal Locks A canal gate is a device for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercrafts between stret- ches of different levels of rivers and canal waterways. The advantages with canal locks is the ability to go from different water levels, that you can travel against the tide, it takes care of the arrangements between the tides and it can shorten the distan- ce between places. 4 X WATER Moments to cherish? I’ll never forget that day in that gracious Kalambaka oak wood, the truffle hunt with the well trained Brio. Everybody asto- nished about the infallible nose of that dog, helping mankind to find the treasures of this earth. And an hour later our students found two families of ten blind pups, born only few hours before, let behind for a certain death by that same mankind. My students rescued the dogs. But in almost one and the same moment we learned how mankind behaves towards animals: in the most exquisite way, but also very brutal… A thrilling experience. Living creatures in Burdur Lake Living creatures at the Aegean Sea Living creatures in Möckeln Lake Living creatures at the North Sea