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Educational Institutions and Sustainable Consumption

Project: Research

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Description

What is “sustainable consumption” and how can it be promoted? Both questions are the focal points of the three-years programme. The project investigates the development of consumption awareness and purchasing competence and consumer-related behaviour in youths and young adults in educational institutions.
The point of departure is a view of a sustainable consumer culture that was developed (and is supported) in cooperation with professional protagonists. Sustainable consumer behaviour is directly promoted, along with basic research in pilot projects: in doing so, the underlying assumption is that the promotion of sustainable consumer behaviour in educational institutions requires an interrelation of formal and informal settings of learning. Thus, classes and everyday behaviour must be sensibly linked so that they can lead to a “sustainable consumer culture”.
This way, educational institutions can become places that offer a chance to reflect one’s own consumption patterns and to try out sustainable modes of behaviour. The institutions as a whole have an influence on learners in terms of their behaviour, their attitudes and their values. Hitherto there has been no detailed investigation of formal and informal educational offers about sustainable consumer culture or about the promotion of sustainable consumer behaviour in educational institutions. In this context, the potentials for a development towards sustainable consumer behaviour have not been exploited.

It is the goal of the joint project to initiate, stabilise and evaluate processes of change towards a sustainable consumer culture with a number of different interventions and on the basis of empirical studies that are being conducted at the participating universities, vocational schools and schools. In the process, the focus is on the significance and the chances of formal and informal places of learning within the field of nutrition and energy/mobility for the development of such a consumer culture. A further goal at the same time is to promote sustainable patterns of consumption. The interventions will be derived and further developed together with the protagonists of the participating educational institution.

Results
As a result of the joint project, new theoretical and methodical findings as well as knowledge of practical relevance will be compiled regarding the question how educational institutions can promote and stabilise sustainable consumer behaviour. Various partners in research and practice are involved in the transdisciplinary project; all of them work with equal rights and, above all, hand in hand on the tasks of the project.

Partners in research:
Institute for Environmental & Sustainability Communication (INFU) (Project Coordination)
German Youth Institute
Humboldt University
Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
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Partners in practice:
Gymnasium Grootmoor (upper secondary school)
IGS Bad Oldesloe (comprehensive school)
BBS Friedenstraße, Wilhelmshaven (vocational school)
BBS Osnabrück-Haste (vocational school)
Bremen University of Applied Sciences
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
AcronymBINK
StatusFinished
Period01.06.08 → 30.04.12
Linkshttp://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=01UV0807
http://www.konsumkultur.de/

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Activities

  1. Internationale Initiativen gegen soziale Verantwortungslosigkeit in der Wirtschafts- und Managementausbildung.
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  6. Art. 307 EG, das Gebot der loyalen Zusammenarbeit und die Zukunft ausländischer Direktinvestitionen nach Lissabon
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Publications

  1. Wirkung der globalen Textkohäsion auf das Leseverständnis von Schülern mit heterogenen Lesevoraussetzungen
  2. Vertrag zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (EGV) : Artikel 281 [Rechtspersönlichkeit der Gemeinschaft]
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  4. The effect of voters’ economic perception, Brexit and campaigns on the evaluation of party leaders over time
  5. Characterization of selected microalgae and cyanobacteria as sources of compounds with antioxidant capacity
  6. Non-native Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) promotes sentinel prey attack rates in Central European forests
  7. Die europäische Verfassung – Verfassungen in Europa: Die 45. Assistententagung Öffentliches Recht in Bielefeld
  8. MULTICULTURAL MOSAIC? STUDYING THE CULTURAL INTEGRATION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN ‘THAI HIGHER EDUCATION 4.0’
  9. No relationship between biodiversity and forest carbon sink across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest
  10. Declientification: Undoing ClientIdentities in Care Planning Conferenceson the Termination of Residential Care
  11. All the prime minister’s glory? Leader effects and accountability of prime ministers in parliamentary elections
  12. Didaktische Handlungs- und Reflexionsfähigkeit in Abhängigkeit von der Berufsidentität bei Lehramtsstudierenden
  13. Biodegradation tests of mercaptocarboxylic acids, their esters, related divalent sulfur compounds and mercaptans
  14. Measuring and Comparing Party Ideology in Nonindustrialized Societies: Taking Party Manifesto Research to Africa