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Students and the water rescue service in the leading role
It is intended that the educational film will make students sensitive to the dangers arising from waterways in summer and winter alike. The scenes have predominantly been filmed on the Inn Canal, the Inn and the Alz. Film producer Josef Harlander: "The resulting films have been developed in keeping with the intended viewers, in other words the 6- to 15-year age group, and are suitable for use in lessons. For the acting roles it was possible to enlist the water rescue services of Töging-Winhöring, Altötting, Burgkirchen/Emmerting, along with their youth groups and active members."
The film project was finalised in October 2012 and presented at a conference of media centre managers in Bavaria, and distributed to all Bavarian municipal media centres. A copy was equally given to all school consultants for transport and safety education in Bavaria. The DVD’s seven films are primarily directed at teachers, but also at specialists in the extracurricular activities area.
School safety package in collaboration with the water services
Michael Amerer, managing director of VERBUND-Innkraftwerke GmbH, explained the details: "Together with the local water rescue services, we have tied together a comprehensive safety package in two respects. On the one hand comprising information signs and life saving equipment, which were set up along the Inn and Inn Canal as early as mid November 2011, so that the general public also recognises the dangers from a visual perspective. And, on the other, a so-called "school package" comprising educational films, worksheets and swimming courses in jet stream channels. The water rescue services have been very committed to this area for years and offer lessons in schools concerning behaviour on waterways."
The school package is available to the 1st- through to fifth-year classes at no charge to all interested schools. The schools can contact the water rescue services in the administrative districts of Altötting and Mühldorf. The DVD with educational films and worksheets can be rented at the media centres of all administrative districts throughout Bavaria.
From May 2013 the voluntary members of the water rescue service will again be offering children training sessions in jet stream channels at open-air swimming pools, such as those at Mühldorf and Burgkirchen, for example.
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