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Christian Lorenz
Christian Lorenz
Christian Lorenz
Christian Lorenz
Christian Lorenz
Christian Lorenz

Young researchers' conference of the City4Future education project in Bamberg

The Bavarian pilot of the “City4Future” project came to a festive conclusion with the first young researchers' conference in Bamberg. “City4Future” is a project of Wissensfabrik - Unternehmen für Deutschland e.V. and was fundamentally revised by the Didactics of Natural Sciences at the beginning of 2023. A novelty was to look at climate change and climate adaptation measures in cities from multiple perspectives in order to subsequently find majority-supported solutions. Pupils use scientific working methods in numerous self-conducted experiments and thus gain decisive insights in a self-organized manner. The creation of an open learning environment in which learners can ask questions about climate change was also a central idea of the University of Bamberg's revision team.

City4Future is already being used with great success in many federal states throughout Germany via so-called educational partnerships. All of the experimental materials and teacher training courses are free of charge for schools!

On November 22, seven Bavarian pilot schools from the district of Bamberg also presented their approaches to urban development of the future. This showed how important good STEM education is as a basis and tool for the next generation. The interdisciplinary exchange between schools, business, science and politics on the premises of Brose GmbH was beneficial for all sides.

On Friday, the Bamberg region was the center of shaping the future: the first Young Researchers' Conference marked the ceremonial conclusion of the piloting of the innovative ?City4Future“ project. The event was held at the Brose company in Bamberg, which made a significant contribution to the implementation together with Bosch as an educational partner.

From idea to innovation: students shaping the future
The focus of the conference was on the pupils of the participating schools themselves: Almost 50 young people from different types of schools, from fifth to eleventh grade, presented the experiments and ideas they had developed at their own schools as part of the City4Future educational project. The direct transfer of the results to their own local environment was particularly impressive. For example, pupils from Baunach secondary school were able to apply their findings on the insulation of houses to the renovation of their school building. The secondary school in Hallstadt, the Steigerwaldrealschule in Ebrach, the Graf-Stauffenberg Wirtschaftsschule, the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Bamberg and the Kaiser-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Bamberg also took part. The young people impressively demonstrated how they were able to tackle the challenges of climate change by carrying out the City4Future project and how they had developed their own solutions for sustainable urban development.

A conference with appreciation and recognition
In the final round of the conference, the young researchers had the opportunity to ask experts from the fields of climate adaptation, urban development, the environment and politics their own questions, including critical ones. The interdisciplinary exchange at eye level - between companies, administration, politics, schools and between young and old - sent a strong signal for innovative STEM education and climate protection.

The success of the event is due in particular to the dedicated work of the teachers who accompanied their pupils on this journey.

A big thank you goes to all those involved, especially the pupils, the educational partners Brose Group and Bosch Bamberg, political decision-makers such as Deputy District Administrator Bruno Keller and Bamberg's 2nd Mayor Jonas Glüsenkamp, the employees of the climate protection department of the district and the city of Bamberg and the MINT network of the Bamberg region for their participation and commitment. 

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