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Research Projects in Geography Education

Current projects

  • #FREI DAY FOR FUTURE – Shaping healthy and sustainable living environments together
    The research project of three years focuses on the FREI DAY learning format at schools in Lower Saxony, whose impact on sustainable and healthy lifestyles and living conditions is being investigated. FREI DAY usually involves four lessons per week in which pupils develop their own projects on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in small groups over the course of a school year, implementing them in their local community. The aim for young people is to acquire the skills they need to create healthy, fair and sustainable living conditions and lifestyles and to experience self-efficacy. The evaluation uses a mixed methods approach which will be carried out at the participating elementary schools as well as secondary and vocational schools. Some schools have already implemented the FREI DAY, some do not take part (yet). For the effectiveness of the evaluation, around 10 key persons per FREI DAY school and one or more class levels are interviewed by telephone as part of the quantitative surveys. Qualitative surveys (focus groups, photovoice, Most Significant Change) will be conducted at selected schools that are already implementing FREI DAY. The project is being implemented in close collaboration with a team at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and coordinated by Prof. Dr. Ulla Walter from the Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research. The research team at the IDN at LUH is responsible for implementing the qualitative surveys.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Christiane Meyer
    Team: Jacqueline Kittel, Alicia Strauß
    Year: 2025
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
    Duration: 02/2025 - 01/2028
  • Low-Emission-Schools in Northern Germany (LESSCO2)
    This research project, which takes place over the course of three years in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, is being conducted by Leibniz University’s Institute for Science Education (IDN) along with Kiel University’s (CAU) Geographical Institute and the Institut für Vernetztes Denken Bredeneek (IfVD Bredeneek). It is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) within the framework of the National Climate Initiative (NKI). In line with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and its Whole-School-Approach, the project aims to transfer knowledge about sustainability into everyday sustainable actions by implementing project weeks in northern German schools. Connecting practical experiences to key ESD issues and fostering democracy education is expected to support the development of low-emission-schools. To enable teacher candidates to implement the respective project weeks, blended learning-training modules are developed, tested and optimised. Within the project’s duration, 480 teacher candidates are supposed to implement 240 project weeks in 240 schools (grade 8 - 11) in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Christiane Meyer
    Team: Merle Biermann, Lara Brede
    Year: 2021
    Funding: Nationale Klimaschutzinitiative (NKI) des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz
    Duration: 2021 - 07/2025
  • Societal Transformation in a Digital Society – Raising Awareness for the Participation in a Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility Transition
    This project is a cooperation between the Institute for Science Education and the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography. The sub-project at IDN will consider with multipliers in the education sector and with young people how a development and use of mobility apps can be realised in an inclusive and sustainable way.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Christiane Meyer (IDN) and Dr. Kerstin Schäfer (Institut für Wirtschafts- und Kulturgeographie)
    Team: Jonas Koch (IDN), Tomke van Hove (IDN) and Dmitry Boyko (IWKG)
    Year: 2021
    Funding: Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (MWK)
    Duration: 2021-2024

Completed projects

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