• The winners were CPR Manuela Rial Mouzo de Cee, with 'As pinguiñas viaxeiras'; CEIP Pedro Casares de Xove, with 'Gota a gota tamén se esgota'; Carmelitas de Ourense school, with the video 'Xornal Agua'; and Estudio de Nigrán school, with the video 'A agua'.
• The finalist team in each province will receive 3,000 €, and the remaining finalists will also receive a gift consisting of a water can made from recycled plastic.
• The participants had to elaborate an audiovisual piece about respect for water and the natural environment, designed for dissemination through social networks.

The Xunta grants the Innovaugas School Awards to 4 schools of Cee, Xove, Ourense and Nigrán for their projects on the responsible use of water.

The director of Augas de Galicia, Teresa Gutiérrez, presided today the delivery of the awards to the school Manuela Rial Mouzo de Cee, with the project 'As pinguiñas viaxeiras'; to CEIP Pedro Casares Rollán de Xove, with the work 'Gota a gota tamén se agota'; to the school Carmelitas de Ourense, with the video 'Xornal Agua'; and to the school Estudio de Nigrán, with the video 'A agua'.

Other finalists were the Galaxia School in Ribeira; the CEIP Xoaquín Loriga in Lalín; and the Lar School in Mos.

In each province, the jury selected 4 finalist teams and, among them, the winner per province will receive 3,000 euros as a prize. The remaining finalists will also receive a gift consisting of a water can made from recycled plastic.

The participants had to produce an audiovisual piece on respect for water, with a maximum duration of 1 minute and a minimum of 15 seconds, designed for dissemination through social networks.

The objective is to promote among primary school students, with a didactic approach adapted to modern times, the acquisition of good habits in the use of water and knowledge of the behavior of natural hydrological ecosystems, river dynamics or the risks associated with extreme events or climate change.

The Innovaugas 2022 School Awards, to encourage environmental education among the youngest children about the use of water and the preservation of the natural environment, were developed as a joint initiative of the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Mobility, through Augas de Galicia, and the Regional Ministry of Culture, Education, Vocational Training and Universities, and was aimed at schools in the first and second year of primary school throughout Galicia.

Innovaugas 4.0

This call is part of the Innovaugas 4.0 project, promoted by the Xunta de Galicia to achieve new solutions for advanced integrated water management, optimize water resources and provide a long-term response to the demands of different uses, in balance with the natural environment.

The Innovaugas 4.0 project has a budget of 7 million euros and is 80% co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Spain's Pluri-regional Operational Program (POPE) 2014-2020.

Innovaugas 4.0 was selected by the Ministry of Science and Innovation in 2020 and has a grant of €4.2 million from European funds, being also co-financed by the Galician Innovation Agency, with €700,000, and by Augas de Galicia, with €2.1 million.