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Project weeks
An entire week without lessons, but full of exciting learning games, creative group work and a digital video exchange with children from the Global South - our project weeks offer the ideal opportunity to dive into the topic of Education for Sustainable Development. All our project weeks focus on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda 2030 and follow a common structure based on the following core elements:
- Identifying and classifying problems - understanding global inequalities and the Agenda 2030
- Developing global perspectives - video exchange with peers from Tanzania and Uganda
- Becoming a problem solver - developing and shaping creative solutions through learning media
Currently, we are offering project weeks on the following topics:
- Climate change in Germany and around the World (SDG 13 Climate Action)
- Plastic waste in Germany and around the World (SDG 12 Sustainable Consumption)
- Sustainable Food - in Germany and around the World (SDG 12 Sustainable Consumption)
- Understanding and preserving Biodiversity (SDG 15 Life on Land)
- Children's Rights
- SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
Can't find the topic you are looking for? We are also looking forward to developing project weeks on other topics such as one of the other 17 SDGs or other related issues.
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General structure
Climate crisis, social inequalities, wars and exploitation of resources - the crises in the world can hardly be overlooked. Even children are often aware of these problems at a young age, even if they are not yet able to fully understand them. It is therefore all the more important to discuss the issues that concern them and that they will also be confronted with in the future at an early age. With the help of diverse, playful methods, we want to make the big global issues understandable in a very practical way. Thus, we want to contribute to the pupils developing their own ideas for solutions and working together with others for a better world of tomorrow.
Day 1 - Identifying and classifying problems
At the beginning of the project week, the participants will dive into the topic of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In doing so, we focus on how these topics relate to their own everyday lives.
Learning objectives:
- The students become aware of the fact that resources are unequally distributed globally.
- They are familiar with the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda and know that they can personally contribute to achieving them.
- The participants develop first ideas on how they can change their behaviour in order to actively contribute to the solution of global problems.
Methods: Quizzes, digital and analogue learning games, interactive presentations, learning videos, discussion rounds, etc.
Day 2 - Developing global perspectives
A special part of the project weeks is the digital exchange with a school class from one of our partner projects in Tanzania or Uganda. Here, the children can ask each other all the questions that interest them: What is the weather like in your country and is it changing due to climate change? Where does your water come from and what happens to your waste? And what is the name of your favourite football team? As a side effect, they also put their English skills into practice. This direct dialogue very effectively promotes mutual understanding for different realities of life as well as for similarities, and often remains in the children's memories as a special moment for a long time.
Learning objectives:
- The students gain insight into the realities and perspectives of students of the same age from the Global South (Tanzania or Uganda).
- They exchange information about their everyday life, the SDGs and their hobbies and recognise similarities and differences.
Day 3 to 5 - Becoming a problem solver
Finally, it's time for the participants to take action! Three days of the project week are designated for developing and actively implementing the students' ideas for solution. In order to do so, they put the knowledge they have gathered over the past few days into creative learning media such as comics, songs, games, videos or short stories that transmit a message to other children. The students work in groups and are guided through the process by the team leaders. During this intensive group work, the participants not only deepen their knowledge and learn to cooperate democratically, they usually also experience a strong sense of self-efficacy.
Learning objectives:
- The consolidation and deepening of what has been learned thanks to creative processing
- Encouraging the creative potential of the students and their ability to develop ideas for solutions
- The development of digital learning media that can subsequently be used as educational material for others
- Experiencing self-efficacy in the group through joint engagement
- Promoting motivation to actively work for the implementation of the Agenda 2030
Our range of topics
Climate change in Germany and around the World
To gain an insight into the process and possible results of our work, you can find the project reports of our past project weeks on the topic of "Climate Action" here.
SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
To gain an insight into the process and possible results of our work, you can find the project reports of our past project weeks on the topic of "Clean Water" here.
Children's Rights
To gain an insight into the process and possible results of our work, you can find the project reports of our past project weeks on the topic of "Children's Rights" here.
Sustainable Food in Germany and around the World
To gain an insight into the process and possible results of our work, you can find the project reports of our past project weeks on the topic of "Sustainable Consumption" with a focus on "Sustainable Food" here.
Plastic waste in Germany and around the World
To gain an insight into the process and possible results of our work, you can find the project reports of our past project weeks on the topic of "Waste and Consumption" here.
Understanding and preserving Biodiversity
To gain an insight into the process and possible results of our work, you can find the project reports of our past project weeks on the topic of "Biodiversity" here.
