The Blue Cross Bern-Solothurn-Freiburg is launching the class competition “#Ausgegleichen” in August. The aim is to sensitize young people to dealing with media and drugs.
Online quizzes, family tasks or experiments on nicotine products: The new app for the class competition “#Ausgegleichen” offers pupils from high school onwards various challenges on the topics of drugs and digital media. This is what the Blue Cross Bern-Solothurn-Freiburg wrote in a press release. The specialist organisation for addiction issues launched the class competition to sensitise young people to dealing with media and drugs.
Participating classes can focus on three main topics: legal drugs, illegal drugs or digital media. A special weekly task challenges the young people to spend a maximum of two hours a day on their cell phones and to avoid drugs. The teachers monitor progress and award points via the app. The best 30 classes win a class gift.
Markus Wildermuth from the Blue Cross explains in the press release that the app offers animated awards to increase the motivation of young people. Young people can also report places where minors can buy nicotine products, thus strengthening youth protection. The project is supported by the Canton of Bern, various foundations, sponsors and the Tobacco Prevention Fund.
