Project duration: 1 January 2018 – 31 December 2019
Objective
Most of the time raw materials are taken for granted. Often, civil society does not consider the consequences of the make-take-dispose consumption model of products which use certain raw materials for their functioning. The AWARD project aims to lead school pupils to a better understanding of their relationship to materials and stimulate an individual reflection on the crucial importance of raw materials.
The solution (technology)
Two documentaries will be produced based on the question “What happens if a specific raw material suddenly disappears from the Earth?”. They will sketch all the consequences on our daily life from economic, environmental, and social perspectives – the three pillars of sustainability. Complementing the documentaries and facilitating deeper learning, workshop packages will be organized and the teachers will be coached to organize them by themselves in the future. Moreover, hands-on toolkits will be used to ensure the concrete aspect of the workshop. As a follow-up, editors and young entrepreneurs will be proposed to produce and distribute the developed tools; this can be specifically delegated to the EIT RM materials entrepreneurship and innovation partners. Workshop reports and testimonials of workshops will be presented to the education governing bodies in each partner’s country to demonstrate success stories and generate support for adoption of this topic and its possible integration in education programs in the future.
Partnership
- Bay Zoltan Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research
- EIT Raw Materials GmbH
- Geological Survey of Slovenia, GeoZS
- Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (KU Leuven)
- Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, RWTH Aachen
- TU Clausthal (Clausthal University of Technology)
- Université de Liège
- Wuppertal Institut fuer Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH (Wuppertal Institute)