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About www.umweltschulen.de

www.umweltschulen.de (www.sustainableschools.net) is a German-language online information service for teachers, specialists in education, staff in school administration and for everyone interested in environmental education.

www.umweltschulen.de was established in 1999 and currently has more than 1.600.000 pageviews per year.

www.umweltschulen.de is an official project as part of the UN Decade of Education ”Education for sustainable development“.

Take a look?

Do you need information on environmental protection for schools? Are you looking for suggestions, materials or partners for environmental education? Would you like to improve the quality of your school and at the same time be oriented toward the model of sustainable development? www.umweltschulen.de offers you background information, teaching and work materials on these topics as well as reports on model projects and particularly exemplary schools.

For example: Eco or sustainability audit in schools

Pupils should themselves oversee key topics of a sustainable development where relevant for them and in way feasible. The eco or sustainability audit helps you to create the necessary structures for this. Use the materials of umweltschulen.de for an environment or sustainability check. Assess the your results and derive measures for improvement. Involve colleagues, pupils and their parents. In doing so, update the operation of your school in accordance with the mission towards sustainable development. Be inspired by the many examples of successful implementation in schools or use them to motive your colleagues.

Other areas of focus include, for example, multimedia in environmental education or the environment library of Stralsund.

This wealth of material is organised in an easy-to-follow way and can be accessed via search engines. A free newsletter can inform you about new content 4-6 times a year.

English content on umweltschulen.de

Not much, but probably better than nothing ;-) The following content is available in English:

• The Climate Detectives Campaign (introduction + checklists for free use) with the following sub-pages
  • Climate Detectives – a German approach to Energy Efficience in Schools (Presentation from the International EGS Forum Järvenpää, Finland, 9th March 2010; PDF, 2,7 MB)
  • CO₂ balance for the school
  • Climate Scale
  • Solar cooking
  • Fifty/fifty
  • Controlling electricity usage with an online measurement system
  • Solar panels for Düsseldorf schools
  • Thermographic investigation into heat loss of the school building
  • Energy and climate in the subjects politics and physics in grade
  • Climate detectives at school - new manual available
• Sustainability audit
  • Catholic Primary School, Essener Straße: Description of our project "Garbage Separation" as a part of the ecological audit
• Finnish-German Cooperation workshop on Education for sustainable development, Helsinki, 2007-04-03
  • Joachim Erwin, Mayor of Düsseldorf, capital of Northrhine-Westfalia: Greetings from Duesseldorf - Text version
  • Klaus Kurtz: Management-System "Sustainability Audit". Text version - Presentation (PDF, 1,5 MB) .
  • Tilman Langner: Successful implementation of sustainability in schools in Northrhine-Westfalia through professional support - Text version
  • Klaus Kurtz: Noise protection in the classroom - Text version - Presentation (PDF, 1,5 MB)
  • Erkka Laininen: Towards sustainability audits in Finnish schools. Development of criteria for social and cultural sustainability: Presentation (PDF, 0,7 MB)
  • Risto Tenhunen: The VQMS Project: Quality and sustainability management: Presentation (PDF, 1,1 MB)
  • Theodor-Wahl-Aust: Sustainability Audit and Energy saving in the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Duesseldorf - Presentation (PDF, 5 MB)
  • Tilman Langner: Gesamtschule Schwerte: auditing the acquirement of sustainability
    knowledge - Text version
  • Abstracts of the Workshops
• Energy Education Governance Schools: An European project on energy efficiency in schools.
  • Manifest for energy efficiency in european schools
  • Sustainable development criteria and certification system for educational establishments in Finland - presentation from Erkka Laininen, International Forum, 8.3.2010, Järvenpää/Finland (PDF, 1,1 MB)
    • Sustainable development certification (PDF, 750 kB)
    • Sustainable development criteria for General Education in Finland (PDF, 300 kB)
    • Sustainable development criteria for Vocational Education in Finland (PDF, 300 kB)
  • Education and energy efficiency in Romanian schools - presentation from Horatiu Soim, International Forum, 8.3.2010, Järvenpää/Finland (PDF, 500 kB)
  • Energy Management in the KEUDA Vocational School
  • Clever Driving
  • State of the Art Report Energy efficiency in Schools (PDF, 253 kB)
    • Appendix frequencies questionnaire (PDF, 249.99 kB)
    • sheets questionnaire (PDF, 1.2 MB)
    • questionnaire (PDF, 476.5 kB)
  • International school congress "Energy efficiency in schools" was a success
• Stepping Up to Sustainability’ - Good News from across South Africa! - “Stories of Change”: School Energy Detectives in action at a Hotel. Innovation Project of Thea Holm, ESD LT (1)
• Environmental Office North

Please help me to enlarge the English content: I'm looking for volunteers, who translate German information into English!

Introduce yourself!

www.umweltschulen.de can be your gateway to German-speaking areas! Numerous renowned partners are already using www.umweltschulen.de as a platform to present their environmental projects.

There are different formats to do this, e.g.

• Brief reports (For example: The European environmental project “Free your River“)
• Detailed presentations (For example: Maintenance of the Stedar fruit-tree-based agroforestry orchards (Streuobst) on the island of Rügen)
• Own work areas with own layout (Examples: Environmental and sustainability reports of the Agnes Miegel Secondary School or the Catholic Elementary School of Düsseldorf; Düsseldorf network ”Education for sustainable development“).

All of these partners benefit from

• Competent consultation and committed service in creating and maintaining your presentation
• A good address and a logical editorial link to the complete system at www.umweltschulen.de
• Fair prices and cooperation agreements.

Publisher

www.umweltschulen.de is an information service of Tilman Langner. If you have questions or would like to collaborate with www.umweltschulen.de, you can contact me at any time (please do so in German or English).

Contact: Tilman Langner Umweltbildung – Umweltberatung
Email: tl@umweltschulen.de

WWW

Related websites (projects, I'm involved):

• The European project Energy, Education, Governance, Schools: www.egs-project.eu/
• Free your River! European students for healthy rivers: www.freeyourriver.net/
• Act4rivers! European teacher training on freshwater ecosystems & environmental education: www.act4rivers.net/