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2025 Year in Review

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2026!

Dear students,

Dear colleagues,

The year 2025 is drawing to a close. What will we remember? 

We look back on a period full of inspiring encounters and dedicated collaboration: together, we have worked to promote STEM subjects, preserve biodiversity and provide education for sustainable development. We have implemented a plastic recycling project in cooperation with Lebenshilfe Bamberg. In the wild bee nesting project, we worked with students and schools to identify over 2,000 wild bee nests and counted 360 poppy bee nests. In addition, we were once again able to organise a young researchers' conference with research contributions from schoolgirls. As part of the City4Future teacher training programme, we addressed climate change and future ideas for urban planning and spent a morning at the Baunach secondary school together with students, the Bamberg district education office and a representative from Bosch. We are particularly pleased that the project was awarded the Climate Protection Prize by the city and district of Bamberg.

The short film ‘Der Meisenkaiser’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GeiS2HY48c) provided cultural and scientific highlights, offering insights into the research of Dr Karl-Heinz Schmidt and the Schlüchtern Ecological Research Station, which won an award at the Bamberg Short Film Festival, as did our exhibitions at the Sustainability Festival 2025:

  • ‘Cultural Perspectives & Mindfulness’ by Jacqueline Dreischer
  • ‘MYCELIUM – Rethinking the Circular Economy’ by Tobias Fleischmann in collaboration with students from the seminar Fungi Revolution - Creating a sustainable future with a mushroom lab in the classroom

Internationally, the year was also marked by exchange: we are delighted to welcome Dr Xiao Wu as a visiting scholar until the end of August 2026.

At the FDdB conference in Innsbruck, we presented City4Future and our wild bee monitoring from our wild bee project. Wild bee monitoring was also presented at Karlstad University in Sweden and at the German International School of Washington in the USA.

The Science Education team wishes you all a peaceful, relaxing and contemplative Advent season, a Merry Christmas and a good start to a healthy and prosperous 2026.

Thank you very much for your commitment!