The DiASper green project (Digital Working World from School Perspective) aims to increase the skills on occupationally relevant digital technologies among young people in the programme area in order to prepare future skilled workers for the working world in the border region. In this follow-up project to the DiASper project, the focus is on industry and the economy of climate and environmental protection, including the energy industry in the region. These areas are becoming increasingly important in both Schleswig-Holstein and southern Denmark.

For the economic development of the German-Danish programme area, the cross-border use of the growth potential is of crucial importance. A central challenge is the digital transformation of the world of work. The rapid development of digital technologies is leading to an increasing replacement of humans by robots, self-learning software or e-Manufacturing. This goes hand in hand with changes in professions for which innovative educational opportunities are needed to prepare future skilled workers for the necessary competence requirements. This also applies in particular to the above-mentioned economic and industrial sectors and their occupational fields that are active in the climate and environmental sector.

However, according to international comparative studies, the education systems in Germany and Denmark are not prepared for this. There is therefore an urgent need for action to ensure that young people can enter the world of work with a digital-technological basic education in a timely manner.

In the project, learning contents are identified together with experts from the above-mentioned industrial and economic sectors, teachers and scientists who deal with the topics and possible links to school education in their work. The starting points are digital applications that are used to measure environmental and climate data. These applications are used in many areas of industry and skilled trades. Mathematical methods for data analysis and further processing are linked to this. The resulting teaching concepts can be directly linked to regular school lessons and also offer pupils insights into various professional fields.

The DiASPer green project will succeed in modernising MINT school teaching and enable young people to acquire a basic education in digital technologies of the working world in the climate, energy and environmental sector. The project contributes to a sustainable increase in the degree of integration in the education sector and thus improves the use of growth potential in the German-Danish programme region.

DiASper green is a cooperation project between the IPN Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel, and the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

The project is funded by the Interreg program Germany - Danmark of the European Union.

For questions or further information on the project please contact Marc Wilken (IPN): wilken@leibniz-ipn.de