Take part and submit your entry: ‘Teaching the Bioeconomy – Shaping the Future’ challenge

How can adult education help to shape the bioeconomic transition in a way that is understandable, practical and socially effective?

This question is the focus of the challenge ‘Teaching the Bioeconomy – Shaping the Future’, which was developed as part of the TransBIB project in collaboration with the Vorpommern-Greifswald Adult Education Centre and the University of Greifswald.

The aim of the challenge is to develop innovative approaches to adult education and to raise awareness of bioeconomic issues across society. We are looking for creative, practical curricula for a series of courses at the Vorpommern-Greifswald Adult Education Centre that explain the bioeconomic transformation of society and the economy in a way that is accessible, engaging and relevant to everyday life.

The challenge is aimed at students, researchers and experts in the fields of the bioeconomy, sustainability, pedagogy, didactics and adult education. Interdisciplinary perspectives and new ideas for sustainable learning formats are particularly welcome.

The challenge is deliberately open-ended in terms of its themes: possible topics include sustainability and resource conservation, regional value creation, social participation, economic transformation, or education for sustainable development. The focus may also be on innovative teaching and learning formats in adult education.

Through this challenge, TransBIB aims to actively promote the integration of bioeconomic issues into society and education. Adult education plays a central role in this: it creates opportunities for knowledge transfer, public debate and the development of new practical skills for a sustainable future.

The proposals submitted via should not only be scientifically sound and pedagogically compelling, but above all practical and capable of being integrated into educational programmes in the long term. Selected teams will have the opportunity to present their ideas to a jury comprising representatives from the fields of education and science, thereby making a concrete contribution to the development of bioeconomic educational programmes.