Kids & Teens

If you’d like to find out more about the environment and/or how you can help protect it, you’ll find links to free environment and health related books and games on this page . You can also ask your teacher to take your class on a trip to our offices in Dessau-Roßlau, where we offer super exciting workshops at our library. And if you’d like to intern or train with us, you should know that we have exciting offers in this domain as well. For example, we offer administrative assistant and chemistry lab assistant on the job training.

Press release on Climate | Energy and Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Environmental and climate protection remain important for youths

Auf dem Bild sind Jugendliche zusehen, die in einem Kreis auf dem Schulhof sitzen.

For almost eight out of ten young people in Germany, protecting the environment and the climate is an important issue. This was the result of the representative study “Future? Ask young people! 2023”, which was conducted on behalf of the German Environment Agency (UBA) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUV). This is less than in the last survey two years ago. read more

Press release on Air and Health

Coronavirus protection in schools: Airing rooms for five minutes, every 20 minutes

a virus in a close-up foto

The German Environment Agency (UBA) has drafted some helpful guidance for the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in Germany (KMK) on proper airing practices in schools. The handbook reflects the UBA experts' recommendations on indoor air hygiene and how proper ventilation in schools can reduce the risk of infection with the novel coronavirus. read more

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