Learning through research - for more sustainable behaviour

The 'Form your Future' project trains young people as 'ambassadors for sustainability'. WWU - Form your Future From acquiring knowledge.. to acting on it: in the "Form your Future? project, research staff from Münster University's Experimental lab "MExLab ExperiMINTe? train young people as "ambassadors for sustainability'. The aim is to develop and produce research issues and campaigns which deal with the topics of atmosphere and climate change, water and soil, and waste and recycling. "Children are our future,' says project team member Biggy-Nadine Wendt, "and that's why we don't only want to teach about sustainability in theory, we also want to make it something that can be experienced by working together in carrying out research and planning campaigns.' The project started in November 2018 with 80 young people from classes 7 and 8 from 13 different schools in the Münsterland. Within 15 months, the schoolchildren took part in up to twelve workshops - until they received their certificates as ambassadors for sustainability in January 2020. A further cohort, likewise with 80 participants, started in February 2020 and is expected to complete the project in the summer of 2021.