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Land promotes natural resources in sustainability education
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Lord Mayor Uwe Richrath and Marianne Ackermann are happy about the funding decision from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Photo: Naturgut
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Load The environmental education center is again one of 28 institutions nationwide to receive funding to promote educational work in the field of sustainable development. This helps, for example, with the digital offer and the conception of new educational programs.
The Energiestadt Children’s and Youth Museum has been open again for a few days, the “Path of the Senses” was renewed a few weeks ago, and insects are currently buzzing and buzzing almost everywhere on the area on Talstrasse: The Ophoven Natural Estate with all the senses After the pandemic restrictions, it has become a little easier to experience again. Except for the culinary breaks, because the organic bistro is currently being renovated.
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The effort to make the area appealing is rewarded not only for visitors beyond the city limits: Naturgut Ophoven is once again one of 28 institutions nationwide that receives funding from the NRW Ministry of the Environment as an ESD regional center. This supports the educational work in the field of sustainable development (ESD) of the institution, informs the natural asset.
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“We are very grateful for the support from the country, which we received for the first time in October 2016. It helps us to carry out many educational offers, ”emphasizes Marianne Ackermann, first chairwoman of the friends’ association, about the state’s financial injection for educational work on the site. Specifically: “This funding supports our event program, the digital offer #naturgutzuhause, the Naturgut Ranger and the conception of new educational programs. A new discovery tour for daycare centers is currently being developed, and a virtual classroom has been developed for the 17 goals for sustainable development. ”In addition, the state campaign“ School of the Future ”in Leverkusen is being looked after by the Naturgut. The ministry launched the funding program. This created a nationwide network of out-of-school learning locations for environmental education, “which is helping to anchor ESD in the educational landscape,” says Ackermann.
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The sponsorship also makes the city boss happy: “I am very pleased that the valuable work of the natural asset is being sponsored by the NRW Ministry of the Environment for another year. I am proud that the Naturgut is an educational facility in Leverkusen that focuses on sustainable development and stands for it with the many offers and partnerships, ”praised Mayor Uwe Richrath.
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