News 03/21/2026 Study Information Day 2026 Lectures, guided tours & information fair – come along! 03/11/2026 Successful Start: Team Days at Simmelsberg Alex Bermann-Gering took up the professorship in March. To kick off, the science education team met for two days of training and exchange at… 03/01/2026 Welcome Prof. Alexander Bergmann-Gering! We warmly welcome Prof. Alexander Bergmann-Gering as Head of the Department of Science Education and look forward to working with him! 02/12/2026 Tree Planting Challenge Goes International Educational institutions in China have taken up the challenge 01/26/2026 Invitation to guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Zhang Dan Title: Gender Socialization in Educational Settings - A Sociological Case Study of Teacher Attitudes and Practices in Shanghai Primary Schools 12/18/2025 2025 Year in Review Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2026! 12/06/2025 Department of Science Education Participates in Tree Planting Challenge We were nominated by the Department of Didactics of Biology and Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth and accepted the challenge. 11/19/2025 City4Future educational project awarded Climate Protection Prize 2025 ‘City4Future – Develop your climate-friendly city of the future!’ was awarded the 2025 Climate Protection Prize by the Bamberg Climate and Energy… 11/03/2025 Sustainability Festival 2025 This year, the Department of Science Education is once again contributing exciting programme activities. 10/24/2025 City4Future and Solitary-bee Project presented in workshops Principals from primary and secondary schools visit the Department of Science Education 10/01/2025 Welcome Dr. Xiao Wu Visiting scholar from China at the Department of Science Education 09/23/2025 Prof. Dr. Yelva Larsen visits Karlstad University (Sweden) In September 2025, Prof. Dr. Yelva Larsen spent two weeks as a visiting lecturer at Karlstad University in Sweden. 09/19/2025 „Der Meisenkaiser“ online now A short film about passion, research and mindfulness that was awarded at the Bamberg Short Film Festival. 09/18/2025 Nestingboxes-project and City4Future presented at the FDdB in Innsbruck The Department of Science Education presented two of its projects at the 25th International Conference of the Didactics of Biology Section (FDdB) in… STMUV / Ralf Rödel 08/01/2025 Prof. Dr. Yelva Larsen awarded the “Green Angel” This award recognizes exemplary achievements in the fields of environmental and consumer protection. 07/25/2025 Young Researchers Conference 2025 Pupils conduct research on wild bees at the University of Bamberg 07/20/2025 Insights into the microcosm: Class 6a from Ernst-Penzoldt-Schule Erlangen visits Pupils enthusiastically discover the world under the microscope 07/01/2025 Training for ESD teachers at the Steigerwaldzentrum On 24 June 2025, the Upper Franconia ESD team organized a training course for teachers from all types of schools at the Steigerwaldzentrum Handthal.… 06/18/2025 Invitation to the poppy bee excursion near Kemmern The Department of Science Education invites you! 05/22/2025 05.06.2025 - Day of the environment An exciting program for school classes, families and all interested parties awaits you in Hainpark on Environment Day! 05/09/2025 17. & 18. May 2025 Biodiversity festival in Ebern Biodiversity festival in Ebern: exciting lectures, discussions, exhibitions and workshops on the topic of biodiversity 04/04/2025 Weltacker Bamberg / Bamberg World Field Exciting programme in 2025: Gardening in the city? Growing and harvesting vegetables? 03/28/2025 Study Info Day 2025 We hope to see some of you again at the start of your studies in Science Education. 03/20/2025 25 & 26.02.2025 - Kick-off event “Citizen science nesting aid project: Researching wild bees 2025” To start the new project year, the first training courses for the Wild Bee Project 2025 took place on February 25 and 26. The team from the… 02/12/2025 Collaboration planned between the Department of Science Education and two Indonesian universities 01/10/2025 Short documentary “Der Meisenkaiser” nominated for the 35th Bamberg Short Film Festival! The short documentary “Der Meisenkaiser”, which was made in cooperation with the film author, producer and cameraman Christopher Dillig and Prof. Dr.… 12/11/2024 Register now for the 2025 wild bee project Become a wild bee expert together with your students! Teacher training: Citizen science with wild bees in schools 12/06/2024 Review of the year 2024 Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2025! 11/25/2024 Young researchers' conference of the City4Future education project in Bamberg The Bavarian pilot of the “City4Future” project came to a festive conclusion with the first young researchers' conference in Bamberg. “City4Future” is… 11/16/2024 Dies academicus 2024 - School beekeeping team & Amelie Klebert awarded prizes School beekeeping team and former student Amelie Klebert receive sustainability award from the Lyceum Foundation 2024 in the study and teaching… 10/24/2024 A heart for bees! Science education students build heart-shaped sandarium for wild bees in Bamberg grove 10/22/2024 Register now for the City4Future Young Researchers Conference Get an insight into the experiment boxes of the City4Future project - Develop your climate-friendly city of the future! Pupils from Bamberg present… 09/24/2024 Think scientific - Teachers' congress at the FAU in Erlangen Sophia Hochrein and Maurice Kalweit present the DiKuLe Wildbee-Project on 24.09.2024 as part of a workshop at the teachers' congress “Think scientific… 09/23/2024 Conference, exchange and transfer in Bamberg: Wild bee project presented at ESD conference Sophia Hochrein presented the wild bee project at the DGfE conference “Areas of tension in education for sustainable development and the increasing… 08/02/2024 New appointment to the professorship from 1st August 2024 08/02/2024 Wild bees project presented at the ERIDOB in Lyon Wild bees project at the 14th Conference of European Researchers in the Didactics of Biology in Lyon (France) 07/29/2024 NaWiD travels to the Rhön region This year's end-of-semester event took place in the Frankfurter Hütte! A great experience! 07/10/2024 Didactics of evolution - in Springer Verlag Evolution is an exciting challenge in the teaching profession. Springer Verlag has published a helpful book on the subject - with the participation of… 07/02/2024 The fascination of the poppy bee (Osmia papaveris) - students at the University of Bamberg map rare wild bee Our students show in a large-scale mapping campaign: the poppy bee population continues to increase! 06/24/2024 Wild bee project: I-ESD conference in Nuremberg Maurice Kalweit and Sophia Hochrein present the wild bee project at the "Interdisciplinary Education for Sustainable Development" conference 06/24/2024 NaWiD meets Finland Dr. Yelva Larsen takes part in ESD conference on the Baltic Sea! 05/24/2024 Ladybug app now available for free download! https://blog.uni-bamberg.de/forschung/2024/id-logics-marienkaefer/ 05/08/2024 Curious? - Discover the biodiversity in the Bamberg Grove On Friday, May 17, we cordially invite you to explore the insect world of the Bamberg grove with landing nets. Meeting point: 1pm, Mühlwörth 21 (at… 03/28/2024 NaWiD goes USA Presenting a related paper set, Denis Messig and colleagues from Hanover and Freiburg visited NARST in Denver, CO. 03/22/2024 Study Information Day 2024 We hope to welcome some of you at the Department of Science Education. 01/24/2024 C4F "ON AIR" at RNF - enjoy the clip Heros for climate: City4Future kicks off with sustainability projects at more than 60 schools. 01/15/2024 Modulprüfung 1 The examination takes place on Thursday, Feb.15th, in room MG2/01.10 at 9.30am. Please be there early. Good luck! 11/13/2023 ESD-Conference at Eichstätt Maurice Kalweit presented the DiKuLe-project about wild bees and nesting aids at the ESD-converence at the University of Eichstätt. Have a look at the… 09/14/2023 Vegan by numbers? Students of Science Education look at food consumption behavior at our cafeterias. Does prompting of information influence the dish we choose? 05/05/2023 SDG 15:Biodiversity on Land Bird nest boxes and insect habitats were constructed by participants of the Sustainability Month. A truly sustainable contribution for biodiversity. 05/05/2023 Das MINTmobil ist offiziell gestartet! Am 27.4.2023 wurde in einem Festakt an der VS Stegaurach das MINTmobil Bamberg offiziell eingeweiht. Wir wünschen viel Erfolg beim Entdecken! 03/16/2023 City4Future - research project with "Wissensfabrik" In which way does a future city look like? Jacqueline Dreischer and her team of researchers take a closer look at this challenge. 10/28/2022 Science Education Support "MINT-Mobil" Exploring, discovering, conducting experiments by everyone and at your school - the BMBF-project "MINT-Mobil" aims to foster childrens curiosity… 10/13/2022 Welcome to Science Education! Before starting your studies at the Department of Science Education, please visit our introductory meeting on Thu, April 14, at 3 pm (MND 00.03).
03/11/2026 Successful Start: Team Days at Simmelsberg Alex Bermann-Gering took up the professorship in March. To kick off, the science education team met for two days of training and exchange at…
03/01/2026 Welcome Prof. Alexander Bergmann-Gering! We warmly welcome Prof. Alexander Bergmann-Gering as Head of the Department of Science Education and look forward to working with him!
02/12/2026 Tree Planting Challenge Goes International Educational institutions in China have taken up the challenge
01/26/2026 Invitation to guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Zhang Dan Title: Gender Socialization in Educational Settings - A Sociological Case Study of Teacher Attitudes and Practices in Shanghai Primary Schools
12/06/2025 Department of Science Education Participates in Tree Planting Challenge We were nominated by the Department of Didactics of Biology and Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth and accepted the challenge.
11/19/2025 City4Future educational project awarded Climate Protection Prize 2025 ‘City4Future – Develop your climate-friendly city of the future!’ was awarded the 2025 Climate Protection Prize by the Bamberg Climate and Energy…
11/03/2025 Sustainability Festival 2025 This year, the Department of Science Education is once again contributing exciting programme activities.
10/24/2025 City4Future and Solitary-bee Project presented in workshops Principals from primary and secondary schools visit the Department of Science Education
09/23/2025 Prof. Dr. Yelva Larsen visits Karlstad University (Sweden) In September 2025, Prof. Dr. Yelva Larsen spent two weeks as a visiting lecturer at Karlstad University in Sweden.
09/19/2025 „Der Meisenkaiser“ online now A short film about passion, research and mindfulness that was awarded at the Bamberg Short Film Festival.
09/18/2025 Nestingboxes-project and City4Future presented at the FDdB in Innsbruck The Department of Science Education presented two of its projects at the 25th International Conference of the Didactics of Biology Section (FDdB) in…
STMUV / Ralf Rödel 08/01/2025 Prof. Dr. Yelva Larsen awarded the “Green Angel” This award recognizes exemplary achievements in the fields of environmental and consumer protection.
07/25/2025 Young Researchers Conference 2025 Pupils conduct research on wild bees at the University of Bamberg
07/20/2025 Insights into the microcosm: Class 6a from Ernst-Penzoldt-Schule Erlangen visits Pupils enthusiastically discover the world under the microscope
07/01/2025 Training for ESD teachers at the Steigerwaldzentrum On 24 June 2025, the Upper Franconia ESD team organized a training course for teachers from all types of schools at the Steigerwaldzentrum Handthal.…
06/18/2025 Invitation to the poppy bee excursion near Kemmern The Department of Science Education invites you!
05/22/2025 05.06.2025 - Day of the environment An exciting program for school classes, families and all interested parties awaits you in Hainpark on Environment Day!
05/09/2025 17. & 18. May 2025 Biodiversity festival in Ebern Biodiversity festival in Ebern: exciting lectures, discussions, exhibitions and workshops on the topic of biodiversity
04/04/2025 Weltacker Bamberg / Bamberg World Field Exciting programme in 2025: Gardening in the city? Growing and harvesting vegetables?
03/28/2025 Study Info Day 2025 We hope to see some of you again at the start of your studies in Science Education.
03/20/2025 25 & 26.02.2025 - Kick-off event “Citizen science nesting aid project: Researching wild bees 2025” To start the new project year, the first training courses for the Wild Bee Project 2025 took place on February 25 and 26. The team from the…
02/12/2025 Collaboration planned between the Department of Science Education and two Indonesian universities
01/10/2025 Short documentary “Der Meisenkaiser” nominated for the 35th Bamberg Short Film Festival! The short documentary “Der Meisenkaiser”, which was made in cooperation with the film author, producer and cameraman Christopher Dillig and Prof. Dr.…
12/11/2024 Register now for the 2025 wild bee project Become a wild bee expert together with your students! Teacher training: Citizen science with wild bees in schools
11/25/2024 Young researchers' conference of the City4Future education project in Bamberg The Bavarian pilot of the “City4Future” project came to a festive conclusion with the first young researchers' conference in Bamberg. “City4Future” is…
11/16/2024 Dies academicus 2024 - School beekeeping team & Amelie Klebert awarded prizes School beekeeping team and former student Amelie Klebert receive sustainability award from the Lyceum Foundation 2024 in the study and teaching…
10/24/2024 A heart for bees! Science education students build heart-shaped sandarium for wild bees in Bamberg grove
10/22/2024 Register now for the City4Future Young Researchers Conference Get an insight into the experiment boxes of the City4Future project - Develop your climate-friendly city of the future! Pupils from Bamberg present…
09/24/2024 Think scientific - Teachers' congress at the FAU in Erlangen Sophia Hochrein and Maurice Kalweit present the DiKuLe Wildbee-Project on 24.09.2024 as part of a workshop at the teachers' congress “Think scientific…
09/23/2024 Conference, exchange and transfer in Bamberg: Wild bee project presented at ESD conference Sophia Hochrein presented the wild bee project at the DGfE conference “Areas of tension in education for sustainable development and the increasing…
08/02/2024 Wild bees project presented at the ERIDOB in Lyon Wild bees project at the 14th Conference of European Researchers in the Didactics of Biology in Lyon (France)
07/29/2024 NaWiD travels to the Rhön region This year's end-of-semester event took place in the Frankfurter Hütte! A great experience!
07/10/2024 Didactics of evolution - in Springer Verlag Evolution is an exciting challenge in the teaching profession. Springer Verlag has published a helpful book on the subject - with the participation of…
07/02/2024 The fascination of the poppy bee (Osmia papaveris) - students at the University of Bamberg map rare wild bee Our students show in a large-scale mapping campaign: the poppy bee population continues to increase!
06/24/2024 Wild bee project: I-ESD conference in Nuremberg Maurice Kalweit and Sophia Hochrein present the wild bee project at the "Interdisciplinary Education for Sustainable Development" conference
05/24/2024 Ladybug app now available for free download! https://blog.uni-bamberg.de/forschung/2024/id-logics-marienkaefer/
05/08/2024 Curious? - Discover the biodiversity in the Bamberg Grove On Friday, May 17, we cordially invite you to explore the insect world of the Bamberg grove with landing nets. Meeting point: 1pm, Mühlwörth 21 (at…
03/28/2024 NaWiD goes USA Presenting a related paper set, Denis Messig and colleagues from Hanover and Freiburg visited NARST in Denver, CO.
03/22/2024 Study Information Day 2024 We hope to welcome some of you at the Department of Science Education.
01/24/2024 C4F "ON AIR" at RNF - enjoy the clip Heros for climate: City4Future kicks off with sustainability projects at more than 60 schools.
01/15/2024 Modulprüfung 1 The examination takes place on Thursday, Feb.15th, in room MG2/01.10 at 9.30am. Please be there early. Good luck!
11/13/2023 ESD-Conference at Eichstätt Maurice Kalweit presented the DiKuLe-project about wild bees and nesting aids at the ESD-converence at the University of Eichstätt. Have a look at the…
09/14/2023 Vegan by numbers? Students of Science Education look at food consumption behavior at our cafeterias. Does prompting of information influence the dish we choose?
05/05/2023 SDG 15:Biodiversity on Land Bird nest boxes and insect habitats were constructed by participants of the Sustainability Month. A truly sustainable contribution for biodiversity.
05/05/2023 Das MINTmobil ist offiziell gestartet! Am 27.4.2023 wurde in einem Festakt an der VS Stegaurach das MINTmobil Bamberg offiziell eingeweiht. Wir wünschen viel Erfolg beim Entdecken!
03/16/2023 City4Future - research project with "Wissensfabrik" In which way does a future city look like? Jacqueline Dreischer and her team of researchers take a closer look at this challenge.
10/28/2022 Science Education Support "MINT-Mobil" Exploring, discovering, conducting experiments by everyone and at your school - the BMBF-project "MINT-Mobil" aims to foster childrens curiosity…
10/13/2022 Welcome to Science Education! Before starting your studies at the Department of Science Education, please visit our introductory meeting on Thu, April 14, at 3 pm (MND 00.03).
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