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Review of the year 2024

Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2025!

 

Dear students,

The year 2024 is drawing to a close and we would like to thank you all for the all-round successful collaboration. There was a lot going on around the Noddack House again this year. We grew mushrooms, ate 20 litres of vegetable stew around the campfire, learned about medicinal herbs and our animals and environment on various excursions.

As part of the City4Future teacher training course and the Young Researchers' Conference, we actively explored climate change and urban planning ideas for the future. Together with pupils from all over Upper Franconia, we carried out molecular biological analyses and transformed the Noddack House into a crime scene and a high-tech analysis laboratory at the same time. In addition, not only was our honey bee team honoured this year - to our great delight - with the Dies academicus Sustainability Award 2024 in Studies and Teaching for the course ‘School Beekeeping’, but also our former student Amelie Klebert. She was honoured for her interactive e-book ‘Toni und die frechen Früchte’ (Toni and the cheeky fruits), which was created as part of her final year project at the Didactics of Natural Sciences department. In the nesting aid project, we worked with students and schools to identify 1,500 wild bee nests, counted 352 poppy bee nests and built a sand heart for wild bees (Sandarium) in Bamberg's Hainpark. This year, we also bid farewell to Denis Messig with many thanks and celebrated the temporary appointment of Yelva Larsen to the professorship with great joy.

Together, we have campaigned for the promotion of STEM subjects, the preservation of biodiversity and the implementation of education for sustainable development. We would like to thank you for the impressive exchange with all the people we were able to meet at conferences, workshops and exchanges lasting several weeks in Bamberg, Erlangen, Nuremberg, Ludwigshafen, Dresden, Nienburg, but also in Finland, the USA, France, Norway, Denmark and Indonesia.

We wish you and your families a contemplative Advent season with quiet, relaxing and peaceful days, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, in which we will continue to work so well together.

Best wishes from the science education team