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Research and adventure workshop: Energy

Created: December 20, 2010
Last updated: October 22, 2020

Mag.a Elisabeth Finotti

Economics and resource management

The project is part of the Regions initiative of the BMVIT (now: BMK) and BMBWF , which aims to set new strategies in the world of education. Young people should be given the opportunity to get to know research, technological developments and innovations in the scientific and technical sector in a playful way and thus be informed and motivated about their choice of career or study.

With the “Energy” project, the Liezen pilot region offers young people in the region the opportunity to benefit from the networking of educational institutions and partners from business and research.

In addition to the transfer of knowledge, which also enables the students to be efficient as multipliers in their environment, the project aims to bring about a new consumer mindset and a change in awareness among regional consumers. Future resources will increasingly be produced on agricultural land; regional business operators, associations and farmers are required to prepare and adapt to new (regional) resource management in order to be able to bring about an energy transition.

The specific scientific activity is divided into individual areas based on the word ENERGY (seen as an acronym), which deal with both energy consumption and energy production as well as the different forms of energy and together cover the entire project field:

E for recognize

N for benefit and discussion

E for savings

R for travel and mobility

G for devices and technologies

I for innovation, production and future plans

E for excursions and hiking days

The children/pupils should be encouraged - in activities organized according to their age - to think about the tension between energy production - energy consumption - nature and environmental protection and to explore the topic in the form of group and project work or in discussions with the relevant research partners and business, partly at school and partly on excursions, learning to work on and deal with.

The planned activities will be age-appropriate

1. the different forms of energy shown

2. your own energy consumption and your own mobility are examined and questioned

3. assesses the total energy consumption in different areas and discusses how and where energy can be saved.

4. the different types of energy production are discussed. This introduces the students to today's technologies and innovative achievements in this field, but also shows their limits and the problems of simultaneous nature and environmental protection.

The project's target groups are primarily agricultural schools and the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, but also secondary and secondary schools as well as elementary school classes. Further goals of the project are learning through research and the associated change in students' consciousness as well as the multiplier effect this creates in their social environment.

Film from the excursion "Hydropower and Copper Route": http://youtu.be/7zsbSm4Lop4