Networking event for the funding call ‘Climate Change, Justice, Society: Just Transition’

EcoQuest is a digital education platform for elementary school students that teaches sustainability and social responsibility through playful, action-oriented learning formats. The focus is on how children can not only acquire knowledge about social and environmental challenges but also become active shapers of a sustainable future. For this call for proposals, we are particularly interested in research questions at the intersection of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), climate communication, self-efficacy, and just transition. Through EcoQuest, innovative educational approaches can be developed, tested, and scientifically monitored in school settings. We are seeking partners from the fields of educational, transformation, or environmental psychology research who would like to collaborate on researching future-oriented skills and social participation among young people.

We operate as a center of expertise at three locations in Lower Saxony and welcome contacts, project inquiries, and discussions about project ideas related to our areas of focus: • Sustainable land use: carbon farming, soil life, nutrient cycles, agroforestry, etc. • Biochar: Applications in agriculture and industry, production, regional material cycles • Recycling and processing of residual materials • The role of bioplastics in the development of value chains • Energy use of biomass: e.g., biogas, biofuels, pyrolysis products, wood gas

pecanode GmbH is a service provider specializing in meteorology and local climatology, based in Goslar, Lower Saxony. Our expertise lies in the analysis of meteorological stressors such as heat stress, wind comfort, UV radiation, and other weather-related health risks. We have experience in conducting urban climate and vulnerability analyses, which we have already successfully applied in various municipal projects and research initiatives. When collaborating with you, we offer to contribute our meteorological expertise to the project so that, together, we can identify increased stressors resulting from climate change and assess the climatic effectiveness of potential adaptation measures. We would be happy to discuss potential project ideas with you.