Just a moment to save the world? THI takes part in the Descartes High School's Climate Day

Neuburg Grammar School wants to become a climate school. To get closer to this goal, a climate day was organized with many activities and impulses for the pupils. Employees from Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences also took part, offering workshops and presentations on various topics.

Science in dialogue: THI employees at Descartes-Gymnasium (Photo: THI).

Wishes for the school of the future (Photo: THI).

THI employees in action (Photo: THI).

What is special about a burdock? Why are leaves folded? Why do lotus plants stay clean even in muddy water? These and many other exciting questions from the fields of bionics, sustainability, and foresight research were explored by scientists from THI together with young people from Neuburg.

Descartes-Gymnasium Neuburg wants to become a climate school. To this end, sustainability topics are not only to be taught in lessons but also implemented in everyday school life as part of the Whole School Approach. So how can the path to a sustainable, climate-neutral school be organized in concrete terms? Together with the ‘People on the Move’ team at THI, consisting of Dr Gerhard Schönhofer, Dr Stefan Schweiger, Anna-Lisa Klages, Franziska Hegner, and Julia Pfeiffer, the students looked for starting points. In various workshops, desirable and realistic futures were developed as part of a future lab, ways to create a bicycle-friendly school or contradictions between social and ecological sustainability in connection with (un)voluntary sustainable lifestyles. In addition, the participants learned how nature can serve as a teacher and why more sustainability is not (yet) possible.

‘Mensch in Bewegung’ is a joint project of the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI) and the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU). Interdisciplinary dialogues, extraordinary events, and innovative ideas for sustainable regional development - with the ‘Mensch in Bewegung’ innovation alliance, the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences are creating a platform to work together to solve the pressing issues of our time. Further information can be found at: https://mensch-in-bewegung.info/  
 

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