Workshop Environmental Education - Renewable Energies for Children and Youth

The importance of renewable energy sources is ever growing on an international scale. Yet a sustainable energy policy can only be successfully implemented with the positive attention of children and young grown ups. Still, renewable energies and environmental education face a serious lack of attention - be it in schools, at home or in the media. In order to enhance attention and to provide a platform for international cooperation, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment invited European stakeholders in environmental education ranging from NGOs to school boards and individual teachers to an international workshop in Berlin. The workshop presented innovative European concepts for environmental education. Berlin school projects, the Polish Energy Bus and participants from all over Europe have presented themselves to demonstrate how environmental education for renewable energies can be improved in practice. The Workshop „Environmental Education“ has been commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in Berlin from 18th-20th of May 2005 in Berlin. It was organised by the Independent Institute of Environmental Concerns UfU e. V. (Coordinator), the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment and iserundschmidt Consultancy. Thirteen speakers from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom and Sweden have been invited to present projects, strategies and different approaches of their national situation and to discuss with the nearly 70 participants about their projects, new approaches and new strategies to enhance the environmental education. The conference was live broadcasted via Internet TV with the support of ManagEnergy. On the website of ManagEnergy all presentation are available as videos on demand: