The Water Analysis Project (WAP) is an environmental research project conceived in the 70s in Mantova, Italy, as a result of a syllabus revision in the chemistry courses of the Istituto Tecnico Industriale “E. Fermi”. Being restricted only to that school at the beginning, the experience, which was run under the sponsorship of Local Authorities, through improvement and expansion, involved four different schools in a pluri-and interdisciplinary investigation.

This report presents an account of a significant example of an Italian E.E. experience, examining the historical and socioeconomic context in which it grew and developed, its objectives, its processes, and its results.