Project Description

Mobility education and consulting in German schools provides a model for sustainable education - focus on environmental and health aspects

Clients and project partners

UBA (Federal Environment Agency)

Brief description

The objective of sustainable mobility is to make the most environmentally friendly mode of transportation - a bicycle, scooter, your feet or the bus and train - "socially acceptable" at school. Pupils should discover the fun of an independent, environmentally friendly type of mobility and learn how to recognize their own responsibility when choosing a type of transportation. They are to become familiar with the part they can play in a future sustainable system of mobility.

Together with the Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) and the Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch-Gmünd, IFEU has been conducting the UBA research project (No. 202 61 218/04) in 2002 to 2005.

The most important steps of the project were:

• Investigating the current state of mobility education in the German states and abroad
• Creating a mobility consulting concept for everyday school life, which is to be implemented on a nationwide basis at 10 pilot schools.
• Creating a consulting guideline for schools to implement the sustainable mobility consulting concept including a CD-ROM with teaching aids.

The guideline can be ordered at:

Umweltbundesamt
ZAD
Postfach 1406
06813 Dessau

Duration of the project

December 2002– 2005

Download

all in German:

Short version of the report (pdf-Datei, 222 kB)

Long version of the report (pdf-Datei, 1,4 MB)

Consulting Guideline (pdf-Datei, 1,6 MB)

Contact

Lothar Eisenmann (06221/ 4767-52; lothar.eisenmann@ifeu.de )