Environment builds bridges – Youths in European dialogue

The Zentrum für Umweltkommunikation (ZUK, Centre for Environmental Communication) of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU/Osnabrück) and the IZOP Institut zur Objektivierung der Lern- und Prüfungsverfahren GmbH based in Aachen created the project »Environment builds bridges – Youths in European environmental dialogue«.

Umwelt baut Brücken – Jugendliche im Europäischen Dialog

"Environment Builds Bridges" - a project under the patronage of Federal President Horst Köhler
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The aim is to establish ties between adolescents in Germany and five Eastern European countries. In the scope of this project each German and Eastern European school enter a twinning arrangement.

In duty as environmental journalist
In total 68 schools with more than 5,000 pupils participate in the project: 34 schools from Germany and 34 schools from Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The project teams or classes visit each other in the course of one year. The focus of these meetings is the common research of innovative environment- and nature conservation projects. On the basis of the research the adolescents write articles in their native language that are published in cooperating newspapers in Germany and the Eastern European countries.