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Summary of projects supported so far
The Bayer Science & Education foundation supports project-related funding to up to EUR 500,000 to schools in the communities surrounding its sites in connection with its school support program. To date a total of 205 projects in the communities surrounding the Bayer sites have been supported so far, representing total funding in excess of EUR 2.1 million.
Projects supported in the communities surrounding the Bayer sites:
Leverkusen
Albert Schweitzer Junior High School in Cologne-Ostheim
The seventh-graders in the elective biology class at Albert Schweitzer Junior High School in Cologne-Ostheim examine various scientific aspects of Strunde Brook. The initiative supported by the Bayer foundation enables school instruction in a very natural environment. Total funding: EUR 2,573
An den Kaulen Community Elementary School in Cologne-Worringen
The Bayer foundation is supporting An den Kaulen Community Elementary School in setting up a scientific investigation laboratory. The donation has made it possible for the school to purchase the necessary materials and equipment. Total funding: EUR 2,500
Anna Freud School in Cologne, a school for special needs sponsored by the Rhineland Regional Council
The foundation is supporting the construction of a new school laboratory known as “AFS – Alle Forschen Selbstständig” (everyone investigates independently). The funds have been used to set up barrier-free computer-assisted workstations and purchase laboratory devices, eco lab boxes and experiment kits etc. Total funding: EUR 22,000
Dönhoffstrasse Community Elementary School in Leverkusen
The Community Elementary School is using the funds to purchase experiment kits on the themes of sound, air, water and electricity. Total funding: EUR 3,000
Freiherr vom Stein High School in Leverkusen
With Bayer’s support, Freiherr vom Stein High School is setting up – among other facilities – computer work stations in its laboratory to enable particularly gifted science students to independently work with interdisciplinary themes. Total funding: EUR 19,400
Further training initiative for teachers “Practical Chemical Tuition” (LNCU)
The three founders of “Practical Chemical Tuition” (LNCU), a voluntary further training initiative for teachers, Gregor von Borstel, teacher at the Alexander-von-Humboldt High School in Bornheim, Andreas Böhm from the Peter-Joerres High School in Ahrweiler and Manfred Eusterholz from Hennef High School, have set themselves the goal of supporting colleagues at all types of schools in the organization of vivid and hands-on chemical tuition. The funds made available have equipped 30 schools from Leverkusen, Bergisch-Gladbach and Cologne with experimental materials. Total funding: EUR 15,000
Geschwister Scholl High School in Pulheim
Pulheim Brook – sections of which have been renaturalized as an interactive water trail – are used by Geschwister Scholl High School in Pulheim as a “green classroom” for environmental learning. The Bayer foundation provides funding for the purchase of the required teaching materials. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Herkenrath Community Elementary School
The Bayer foundation is supporting Herkenrath Community Elementary School in setting up a scientific investigation laboratory. As part of a project lasting several months, the elementary school children have developed and designed the investigation lab together with their teachers. Total funding: EUR 8,000
Herkenrath High School in Bergisch Gladbach
The Bayer foundation provides Herkenrath High School in Bergisch Gladbach with financial support for a multi-stage, long-term experimental natural research project in the area around the school. The funds are used to set up a nature library, examine two ecosystems and design a nature experience area. Total funding: EUR 19,500
Hölderlin Municipal High School in Cologne-Mülheim
The man-made pond in the municipal park in Mülheim serves as a scientific research object for the schoolchildren of Hölderlin High School in Cologne-Mülheim. In this project, the children learn about modern water analysis methods. Total funding: EUR 8,478
Integrated Comprehensive School Paffrath in Bergisch Gladbach
The Comprehensive School in Paffrath is investing the donation money in experiment kits that will make chemistry classes more attractive. The schoolchildren can produce their own perfum by extracting scent and fragances out of plants. Total funding: EUR 2.100 Euro.
Landrat Lucas High School
The interdisciplinary chemistry and technology classes at Landrat Lucas High School will focus in the future on polystyrene plastic. The funding enables students in grade 9 to study the structure and properties of plastics in a practical, project-based manner, using polystyrene as an example.Total funding: EUR 15,000
Lebensbaumweg Catholic Elementary School in Cologne
The funds provided by the Bayer foundation are used to support the “Researchers and Explorers” project of Lebensbaumweg Catholic Elementary School. Total funding: EUR 9,000
Leichlingen Municipal Catholic Elementary School
With the Bayer funds, Leichlingen Municipal Catholic Elementary School is further expanding its “Experiments build knowledge” project. Total funding: EUR 2,000
Leichlingen Municipal High School
With the help of the Bayer funds, Leichlingen Municipal High School is modernizing its chemistry, physics and biology rooms, which are equipped with an innovative student laboratory system. Total funding: EUR 93,000
Leverkusen-Schlebusch Comprehensive School
The comprehensive school is using the funding for project-related and specialist instruction on the theme of water. The goal is to teach the students how to conduct experiments independently. Helping in this endeavor are the newly procured microscopes, biological and chemical water analysis kits and oxygen measuring devices.Total funding: EUR 20,548
Leverkusen-Schlebusch Comprehensive School
The comprehensive school receives funding for its “Energy Detectives” initiative. The children are on the trail of environmentally relevant influences in everyday life, which they document and present to their fellow students. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Lise Meitner High School in Leverkusen
Lise Meitner High School is using the funds on a project entitled “Independent work – realizing research potential.” The grade 5 and 6 students attend two classes each week in which they break into teams to deal with scientific phenomena. Total funding: EUR 14,000
Lise Meitner High School
Students at Lise Meitner High School are to be introduced to the natural sciences in everyday life by way of independent experimentation. The school is investing the funds in its Applied Natural Sciences project for the junior high grades.Total funding: EUR 10,000
Marienschule school in Cologne-Longerich
In special experimental working groups, the elementary school students at Marienschule school in Cologne-Longerich learn about scientific phenomena. The funds provided by the foundation are used to equip science kits that enable the children to become properly acquainted with the subject matter at an early age. Total funding: EUR 2,112
Marienschule school in Opladen
A scientific research laboratory is being set up to support the curricula of the high school lowerclassmen at the Marienschule school in Opladen. The funds from the Bayer foundation are being used to purchase experimentation sets and technical equipment. Total funding: EUR 7,774
Montanus Junior High School in Leverkusen
Montanus Junior High School is investing the support money in interdisciplinary, hands-on scientific instruction. Total funding: EUR 20,000
Neukronenberger Strasse Municipal Community High School
Through the “Come along and wonder” project, the 5th through 10th grade students at Neukronenberger Strasse Municipal Community High School are challenged to observe and try out scientific processes. The funds provided by the foundation are being used to set up a researcher circuit. Total funding: EUR 15,000
Nibelungenstrasse Community Elementary School in Cologne-Mauenheim
In the research club at Nibelungenstrasse Community Elementary School in Cologne-Mauenheim, the “Nibelungen research kids” are able to conduct exciting experiments dealing with earth, water, fire, air and light in a specially designed research laboratory. The funds are being invested in the procurement of the necessary equipment. Total funding: EUR 3,000
Otto Hahn High School in Bensberg
Otto Hahn High School is using the donation money to create an experimental laboratory. The aim is to acquaint the schoolchildren with the world of science through independent experimentation.Total fund: EUR 56.463
Rhine High School in Cologne-Mülheim
Rhine High School is receiving funding to further improve the already high level of its technical and scientific instruction. Total funding: EUR 22,500
Rhine High School in Cologne-Mülheim
The project at Rhine High School in Cologne-Mülheim combines math, computer science, natural sciences and technology – a new combination course with a focus on geology – with art. The students go on a field trip to study various materials in quarries while designing their own creative pictures. The funds from the foundation are being invested in analysis equipment. Total funding: EUR 1,500
School initiative "Cologne Model"
The Bayer foundation promotes the so-called "Cologne Model". With this aid, the school initiative for teachers coordinated by the University of Cologne can expand its activities to make chemistry lessons in North-Rhine-Westphalia more exciting. Total funding: EUR 45,000
Werner Heisenberg High School in Leverkusen
Werner Heisenberg High School uses the support money on programs for the expansion of the “International Baccalaureate Diploma.” Total funding: EUR 50,000
"WissenschaftsScheune" project of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
The Bayer Foundation is supporting the “WissenschaftsScheune” (science stable) project of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. This institution enables school classes to experience the world of plants and agriculture first hand. Total funding: EUR 48,000
Bergkamen
Comenius High School in Datteln
Comenius High School in Datteln is using the donation money to purchase experiment sets for the science instruction that senior high school students give children from elementary schools in the region. The older students want to offer an afternoon of experiments for all interested 4th-graders. Total funding: EUR 1,500
Comenius High School in Datteln
The Bayer funds are being used to implement an international cooperation project on “Water – a vital substance” with schools from France, Spain, Italy and Finland. The focus is on the water issues in the various countries, particularly taking into account the aspect of climate change. Common features and differences between the various European countries are being established. Total funding: EUR 3,500
Diesterweg School in Kamen
At Diesterweg School in Kamen, practical experimentation is an integral part of teaching natural sciences. The money donated by the Bayer foundation is used to purchase experimentation stations for the schoolchildren that allow them to explore and understand complex physical matters. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Fröndenberg Comprehensive School
Fröndenberg Comprehensive School organizes project days across all years, schools and grades in which schoolchildren “teach” other students about fauna, water, soil organisms and water-based animals from a biological and a chemical perspective. The Bayer foundation is providing the school with funding to set up a new environmental laboratory. Total funding: EUR 10,000
Galilei High School in Hamm
The Galilei High School in Hamm is investing the donation in the introduction of a compulsory elective subject “Natural Sciences”. It combines the subjects biology, chemistry and physics and provides a sound preparation for tuition in the senior grades. The students from grades 8 and 9 look at issues such as “Food – chemistry, microbiology and health”, “Pharmaceuticals and drugs: manufacture, effect and health” and “Water – between an elixir and a commodity”. Total funding: EUR 7,000
Kamen Municipal High School
With the Bayer funds, the school students at Kamen Municipal High School are able to turn a large aquarium into a “Mediterranean rock landscape”. From planning right through to implementation the project is unique – it will both motivate and thrill the students. Total funding: EUR 10,000
Langermann School in Dortmund
When learning about the environment, children at Langermann School in Dortmund are able to explore the school’s very own humid biotope. The Bayer foundation funds the purchase of microscopes, which allow the children to examine and assess various preparations. Total funding: EUR 4,000
Marien Municipal High School in Werl
At Marien Municipal High School in Werl the Bayer foundation is sponsoring the establishment of a cross-class scientific working group on moss ecosystems which will work together with the University of Bielefeld. The 12th-grade students are performing genetic investigations on moss nematodes isolated by 7th-graders. With the aid of the information they have acquired the students will then be able to reconstruct the relationships between the various threadworms found in moss and thus their evolution. Total funding: EUR 10,000
Overberg School in Fröndenberg
Children at the Overberg School in Fröndenberg are able to explore scientific phenomena in experimental lessons across all year groups in the school’s own learning workshop. The funds provided by the foundation are used to purchase work materials such as indicator sticks, measuring cylinders, protective gear and specialist literature. Total funding: EUR 3,000
Pankratius School in Körbeke
The funding is being used by Pankratius School in Körbeke to furnish a scientific laboratory. The “Science Experiment Club” currently comprises 85 children from grades 3 and 4 and meets up every two weeks. The elementary school students carry out experiments on various subjects such as the solubility of substances, acids and bases or fire. Total funding: EUR 1,000
St. Margaretha Elementary School
In the “research with Jim Knopf” working group at St. Margaretha Elementary School in Warstein-Sichtigvor, children are able to explore scientific phenomena themselves. The donations from the Bayer foundation are used to buy experiment kits. Total funding: EUR 1,500
Schiller Elementary School in Bergkamen
Schiller Elementary School is using the funds provided by Bayer to implement a special project encouraging hands-on experimentation. The newly ordered laboratory materials and analytical devices will make it more exciting for the schoolchildren to perform their own experiments. The focus, among other things, is on the properties of substances, dyes and acids. The project for third-graders is to take place on one afternoon a week and is led by a Bayer employee. Total funding: EUR 2,500
Warstein High School
At Warstein High School, youngsters explore microbiological factors important to ecological cultivation. The funds provided by the foundation are primarily being used to buy special magnifying glasses, other research materials and a greenhouse to allow the pupils to work regardless of the weather. Total funding: EUR 20,000
Berlin
Brodowin Elementary School in Lichtenberg (in Berlin)
The Brodowin School in Lichtenberg is setting up a science room with the help of funds from Bayer. Total funding: EUR 5,586
Ernst Reuter High School in Berlin Mitte
Ernst Reuter High School in Berlin Mitte is investing in two terrariums for reptiles and three terrariums for insects in order to establish its own vivarium. Other interested visitors can contact the school, should they wish to tour the vivarium during school hours. Total funding: EUR 4,700
Fichtenberg High School in Steglitz (in Berlin)
Fichtenberg High School in Steglitz will fund a project that illustrates the manifold importance of science. Its title is “Science for environmental and climate protection.” The students use environmental measuring instruments purchased with the money to examine their school building and conduct measurements in the Botanical Garden nearby. Total funding: EUR 9,900
“Freie Schule Pankow” school in Berlin
The “Freie Schule Pankow” school is using the funds to create a special room for scientific experiments. The goal is to increase the share of experiments in science classes. Total funding: EUR 26,500
Humboldt High School in Tegel (in Berlin)
Humboldt High School in Tegel is using the funds to renew the school pond and procure measuring devices. Within the scientifically based project, photometric measurements facilitate the exchange of data between various learning groups, for example. Total funding: EUR 7,000
Lessing High School in Wedding (in Berlin)
Lessing High School in Wedding is using the funds to set up a laboratory for its courses “Experts’ Workshop – Young Natural Scientists,” “Science Driver’s License” and “Science@Lessing-AG.” The goal is to awaken the students’ enthusiasm for scientific phenomena and thus convey the attractiveness of scientific and technical vocations. Total funding: EUR 10,000
Lise Meitner School in Neukölln (Berlin)
Lise Meitner School in Neukölln is expanding its “Liselabs School Laboratories” with the help of the Bayer funding. The school is a center where students can focus on scientific disciplines. In the “Science for beginners” project, for example, elementary school classes can spend the morning conducting experiments in its laboratories. Total funding: EUR 15,000
Max von Laue High School in Steglitz (in Berlin)
Max von Laue High School is using the money to fund its own viniculture project. Using newly procured analysis instruments, the students learn the basics of plant physiology and acquaint themselves with rapid determination methods. The curriculum also includes the effects of wine consumption on one’s health. Total funding: EUR 40,000
Neuzelle Monastery High School in Brandenburg
With the donation money, Neuzelle Monastery High School is improving the facilities in its biology and chemistry rooms. Thanks to this newly purchased equipment, the schoolchildren can produce their own cosmetics or conduct water analyses, for example. Total funding: EUR 1,200
Robert Koch High School in Kreuzberg (in Berlin)
With the help of the funds provided by the Bayer foundation, Robert Koch High School in Kreuzberg will be able to implement the study group project “With mind and heart.” Purchased for this purpose were various animal brain and heart models, including those of a dogfish, a water frog and a gorilla. Total funding: EUR 14,350
Bitterfeld
“an der Biethe” Secondary School in Dessau-Rosslau
In the “Low-Energy House” project of “an der Biethe” Secondary School in Dessau-Rosslau, the schoolchildren are collaborating with a local vocational training center to design and build a house according to modern environmental and climate protection standards. Total funding: EUR 7,000
Querfurt High School
The Bayer foundation is supporting the setting up of a weather station at Querfurt High School. The school is using the donation money to buy modern environmental measuring devices. Total funding: 6.700 Euro
Saaleschule school in Halle
The members of the experimentation and research club at the Saaleschule school in Halle analyze the quality of water, air and soil on the banks of the Saale River. The funding from the Bayer foundation is used to purchase the required mobile analysis and experimentation equipment. Total funding: EUR 4,200
Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Bitterfeld-Wolfen
The Science and Technology Park of Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Bitterfeld-Wolfen uses the donations it receives from the Bayer foundation to help finance its laboratory for schoolchildren. The funds are invested in laboratory equipment, which is used to conduct basic genetic experiments in the field of molecular genetics. Total funding: EUR 10,000
Brunsbüttel
Brunsbüttel High School
Brunsbüttel High School is using the funds from the foundation to implement its "Basics of Biotechnology” project. The donation has made it possible for the school to purchase the necessary materials and equipment along with extensive literature. Total funding: EUR 21,100
Friedrichskoog Elementary School
Friedrichskoog Elementary School is using the funds to launch a project for children to discover the flora and fauna in the woods around their own school. The students also learn how to handle the newly purchased devices, such as microscopes, binoculars and magnifying glasses. Total funding: EUR 3,930
Marne Elementary and Regional School
Renewable energies are an integral part of the curriculum in first-stage secondary education at Marne Elementary and Regional School. For the practice-oriented classes, the school plans to set up photovoltaic facilities and wind turbines on school grounds.Total funding: EUR 7,500
Marne High School
Students at Marne High School want to integrate a model of our solar system into the Dithmarschen neighborhood. At positions where planetary orbits in the model can be represented by bike or hiking paths, they will set up display boards with scale images and information on respective planets. The students will compile the necessary information in their project classes. With the help of the funding, the school was able to purchase telescopes with built-in webcams and display boards.Total funding: EUR 8,000
Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Bitterfeld-Wolfen
The Science and Technology Park of Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Bitterfeld-Wolfen uses the donations it receives from the Bayer foundation to help finance its laboratory for schoolchildren. The funds are invested in laboratory equipment, which is used to conduct basic genetic experiments in the field of molecular genetics. Total funding: EUR 10,000
Dormagen
Albert Schweitzer School in Neuss
With the help of the funds from Bayer, Albert Schweitzer School is converting an old construction trailer into a facility for optical experiments. The aim is to awaken the elementary school children’s enthusiasm for scientific phenomena. Total funding: EUR 4,000
Alexander von Humboldt High School in Neuss
Getting girls interested in the natural sciences is the goal of students at Alexander von Humboldt High School in Neuss. The High School is investing the funding from the Bayer foundation in the "Experimenting with Tini and Toni" project. It is designed for girls in elementary grades 3 and 4 and organized in part by the high school students themselves. Total funding: EUR 7,100
Bertha von Suttner Comprehensive School in Dormagen
Bertha von Suttner Comprehensive School is spending half the donation money on interdisciplinary ecological studies of lakes within the Dormagen municipal area. The other half is being spent on equipment for the new “nanotechnology” instruction project. Total funding: EUR 10,000
Dormagen City Library
The Bayer Science & Education Foundation is helping the Dormagen City Library to establish a Natural Science School Center. The library plans to use the funding to update and expand its natural science media with some 200 new titles. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Friedrich von Saarwerden School in Dormagen-Zons
In the multi-class Bionics Project at Friedrich von Saarwerden School in Dormagen-Zons, the students observe natural phenomena that they can apply to technical solutions and applications. The money provided by the Bayer foundation is being used to purchase the necessary instructional materials. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Gillbachschule School in Rommerskirchen
In the “Students become researchers” project, the elementary school students at the Gillbachschule School in Rommerskirchen conduct experiments dealing with regenerative energy forms. The funds provided by the Bayer foundation are being invested partly in experiment kits and a weather station in the schoolyard. Total funding: EUR 4,000
Hermann Gmeiner School in Dormagen
In the “Real and multimedia exploration of our environment” project, the high school students of Hermann Gmeiner School analyze local bodies of water and present their results in multimedia form. The support money is being used to purchase the necessary project infrastructure. Total funding: EUR 2,000
Leibniz High School in Dormagen
Thanks to the donation money, Leibniz High School in Dormagen is able to offer interdisciplinary courses on the study of various ecosystems and purchase materials for various model experiments. Total funding: EUR 20,000
Leibniz High School in Dormagen
In the “Electrical engineering/Electronics” project at Leibniz High School in Dormagen, students from multiple classes learn about electronic circuits, solid state physics and electrical engineering, as well as conduct experiments in quantum physics. The Bayer foundation is helping to fund the multi-class physics project. Total funding: EUR 12,133
Municipal Junior High School in the Dormagen Sports Park
With the help of the funding, the Municipal Junior High School in the Sports Park is purchasing equipment and materials for hands-on chemistry instruction. Total funding: EUR 2,500
Municipal Junior High School in the Dormagen Sports Park
A funded project at Municipal Junior High School in the Dormagen Sports Park focuses on the use of active ingredients from native plants, new technologies and the preservation of habitat to ensure biodiversity. The students undertake numerous excursions designed to promote visual instruction in nature. Total funding: EUR 6,000
Norbert High School in Knechtsteden
Norbert High School in Knechtsteden uses the donation money to purchase instructional materials for electrochemistry classes. The high school students learn about electrochemical processes in galvanic cells. Total funding: EUR 4,713
Norf High School in Neuss
With the help of the funding from Bayer, Norf High School in Neuss is supplementing its scientific resources with materials for experiments in the area of food chemistry. The Bayer foundation also supports a special cooperation project between the high school and St.-Peter-Schule Rosellen, an elementary school in Neuss. Total funding: EUR 3,374
Raphaelschule School in Dormagen
The students of Raphaelschule School in Dormagen participate in a project designed to explore natural phenomena in forests. The students at the special needs school deal with these themes through searches, group work and excursions. The money provided by the foundation is being used to purchase working utensils and instructional materials. Total funding: EUR 8,000
Rhine District in Neuss
The Rhine District School Authority in Neuss has launched the “LabLive” project to spur children’s interest in chemistry. During the fall vacation, schoolchildren can regularly conduct experiments themselves under professional instruction in the laboratories of various companies. Total funding: EUR 4,850
Frankfurt
Otto Hahn School in Hanau
Under the name “Bio Chemical Science Investigation” (BCSI), a student research team has been established at Otto Hahn School in Hanau. The money will be used to fund various experiments by the BCSI team. Total funding: EUR 7,500
Tannenberg School in Seeheim
Tannenberg School in Seeheim aims to acquaint the elementary school children with the world of natural science through independent experimentation. The elementary school is investing the donation money in the establishment of a children’s research workshop. Total funding: EUR 2,000
Grenzach
Wiechs Elementary School in Schopfheim
The Elementary School in Schopfheim is setting up a new student laboratory. With the help of funds from the Bayer foundation, the school is purchasing laboratory equipment such as magnetic stirrers, thermometers, balances, glass apparatus and basic chemicals.Total funding: EUR 2,000
Jena
Lobdeburg School in Jena
The Bayer foundation is supporting the establishment of a mobile scientific laboratory at the Lobdeburg School. The school is using the funds from Bayer, among other things, to purchase microscopes and test boxes on topics linked to water, electricity and optics to enliven science lessons for six to 12-year-olds. Total funding: EUR 20,000
Kiel
Elly Heuss Knapp School, Neumünster
Elly Heuss Knapp School is offering students biotechnology as a new subject. The school is investing the funds from the Bayer foundation in its "Ballast water – Tracking down stowaways" project, which is part of an entire educational course for obtaining a school-leaving exam and vocational training to become a biotechnology assistant. Total funding: EUR 20,000
Freiherr vom Stein School, Kiel
Freiherr vom Stein School is using its funds to purchase equipment for an "Experimentation Shop," a place that promotes experimental learning and allows students to independently explore mathematical and natural science principles. Total funding: EUR 3,615
Schützenpark-Technik Vocational School, Kiel
The vocational school is investing the funds from the Bayer foundation in a simulation software package. With it, industrial mechanics can learn how to program and commission industrial robotic systems. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Secondary Modern School at the Hoffmann von Fallersleben School Center, Lütjenburg
At Lütjenburg Secondary Modern School, engineering is a course offered over three years, from grades 7 to 9. To enable the use of innovative technologies in class, the funding from the Bayer foundation was used to purchase equipment such as a CNC milling machine. The course gives students their first practical experience with computer-controlled machine tools. Total funding: EUR 6,000
Theodor Heuss Community School, Preetz
Eventful astronomy lessons are to become a permanent part of the curriculum at Theodor Heuss Community School for students in grades 9 and 10. Funding from the Bayer foundation will help to purchase new star charts, textbooks and telescopes. Total funding: EUR 3,656
Krefeld
Albert Einstein High School in Duisburg-Rumeln
Albert Einstein High School in Duisburg-Rumeln is using the funds to buy equipment for its biochemistry classes. The curriculum focuses on topics such as aromatics, greases and soaps, and on demonstrating their significance in everyday life to students in attractive experiments.Total funding: EUR 5,055
Albert Schweitzer School in Krefeld
The Albert Schweitzer School in Krefeld is using the funds to implement a project called "Water is Our Life" in its elective chemistry classes. With the new materials and apparatus, students can independently explore chemical processes in water.Total funding: 9,500 Euro
Essen-Borbeck Municipal Girls High School
Municipal Girls High School is using the donation money to further expand its “Science for Girls” project. The scientific project at the girls school is basically aimed at acquainting students of different ages with science, information technology and technology. Total funding: EUR 15,000
Fabritianum High School in Krefeld
The Bayer foundation is supporting Fabritianum High School in the implementation of a chemistry project. The school is using the funds to purchase apparatus and materials that will make experiments more attractive. Total funding: EUR 11,500 .
Kaiserplatz Comprehensive School
The subject of dyes is covered routinely in the upper-grade chemistry classes at Kaiserplatz Comprehensive School in Krefeld. Thanks to funding from the Bayer foundation, the school can now apply the "Our World is Colorful" project in several grades and cover a variety of topics. Total funding: EUR 5,700
Lutherpark School in Duisburg
Lutherpark School's motto this year is: "We're going on a discovery tour!" The elementary schoolchildren are to analyze phenomena in the natural sciences. With the help of the funding, the school is setting up four mobile laboratories. Total funding: EUR 3,200
Michael Ende High School in Tönisvorst
Michael Ende High School is investing the funds it received from the Bayer foundation in the school's own Chemistry Tutolab, a hands-on experimentation lab. There, the high school students offer courses to elementary schoolchildren to teach them about the importance of the natural sciences in everyday life. Total funding: EUR 2,260
Stadtpark High School in Uerdingen
12th grade students at Stadtpark High School in Uerdingen can now pursue an ambitious natural science project thanks to funding. Using new analysis instruments, they plan to examine the optical activity of chemical substances. Total funding: EUR 3,000
The Bayer foundation also is supporting a second project at Stadtpark High School in Uerdingen: With the funds, the school is setting up a 140 meter-long "School Road Through the Universe," which shows the beginnings of the cosmos, the evolution of man and the emergence of modern life on earth.
Total funding: EUR 5,000
St. Nikolaus School in Kalkar
St. Nikolaus School, a Catholic secondary modern school in Kalkar, is investing the funds in a project for "Solving Commercial Wastewater Problems." Students conduct experiments to analyze the conditions under which waste water treatment plants function best. Total funding: EUR 1,920
Ter Meer School in Krefeld
Ter Meer School is using the donation money to modernize its chemistry room. By improving learning conditions, furthermore, the school also aims to further awaken the children’s interest in scientific matters. Total funding: EUR 10,000
Uerdingen Vocational School
At Uerdingen Vocational School, an experimental project entitled "Vanilla or Vanillin?" is to be offered as part of the Chemistry/Biology advanced placement course combination in the Technical High School program.Total funding: EUR 15,000
Monheim
August Dicke School in Solingen
In addition to normal classes, August Dicke School also runs a “science profile class.” The school is using the donation money to purchase materials for special projects on themes such as weather, acoustics and astronomy. Total funding: EUR 16,000
Don Bosco Elementary School in Langenfeld
Don Bosco Elementary School is establishing a children’s laboratory with the donation money. The aim is to acquaint the young schoolchildren with the world of science through independent experimentation. Total funding: EUR 4,000
Konrad Adenauer High School in Langenfeld
With the donation money from Bayer, Konrad Adenauer High School in Langenfeld is further expanding interdisciplinary instruction in the subject of bionics. The school especially wants to equip the rooms for combined biology and technology instruction with modern facilities and experiment rooms. Total funding: EUR 15,000
Lise Meitner Junior High School in Monheim
Lise Meitner Junior High School in Monheim is investing the donation money in the construction of a photovoltaics facility. The schoolchildren use this facility independently and become acquainted with fuel cell technology through their own experiments. Total funding: EUR 3,630
Otto Hahn High School in Monheim
Otto Hahn High School is using the donation money to purchase materials for demonstratively designed, combined instruction in the disciplines of biology and chemistry. Total funding: EUR 4,500
Solingen Municipal Comprehensive School
The Bayer foundation is supporting technical instruction at Solingen Municipal Comprehensive School. The school – which is taking part in a technical school project for the Bergisches Land region – will thus improve engineering training for students in the region. Total funding: EUR 10,000
Weimar
Carl August Musäus Regular Public School
The robotics study group at the Carl August Musäus Regular School pursues the goal of specifically acquainting children of various ages with the natural sciences, information technology and technical disciplines. The funds are being used to purchase apparatus and materials.Total funding: EUR 4,500
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Elementary School
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Elementary School is using the funds provided by Bayer to equip an experimentation workshop in connection with its “Pfiffikus” project. The newly acquired computers, models, microscopes and teaching materials should give the students an opportunity to vividly learn about “The Wonderful Secret of Earth” and other themes.Total funding: EUR 6.000 Euro.
Montessori Integrated School in Nohra
The Montessori Integrated School is investing the donation money in its “Our landscape park” project. The aim of the project is to foster an interest in scientific subjects among young children. Total funding: EUR 3,200
Wormstedt Public Elementary School
Wormstedt Elementary School aims to awaken the students’ enthusiasm for the world of science through the fascination of experiments. With the help of the funding from Bayer, the school is setting up a small laboratory. Total funding: EUR 3,000
Wuppertal
Barmen Comprehensive School in Wuppertal
Barmen Comprehensive School is using the Bayer donation to fund the new multi-age project “Information Technology and Robotics for Girls.” The objective is to awaken interest among girls for scientific and technological themes through newly purchased robots. Total funding: EUR 5,040
Barmen Southwest Secondary Modern School
The students of Barmen Southwest Secondary Modern School volunteer their time to carry out science projects suitable for children in elementary and pre-schools. The funds are being used to pay the freelancers for the elective courses and to purchase materials for the projects. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Berufskolleg am Haspel Vocational College
As part of the “Process Automation” project, youngsters at the Berufskolleg am Haspel Vocational College in Wuppertal learn to develop computer programs. Another training project on radio frequency identification allows students to control automated processes performed by robots. The funds provided by the Bayer foundation are used to purchase notebooks for workstations, simulation software and other technical equipment. Total funding: EUR 17,300
Carl Fuhlrott High School in Wuppertal
With the help of the funds from the Bayer foundation, the students at Carl Fuhlrott High School are expanding the campus garden, which comprises several small biotopes and a fruit and vegetable garden. Total funding: EUR 25,000
Carl Fuhlrott High School in Wuppertal
With the funding from Bayer, Carl Fuhlrott High School is expanding its observatory to create a “Student Astronomy Laboratory” with additional observation stations. The expanded observatory could in the future benefit children from around the region – from elementary schools to high schools. Total funding: EUR 20,000
District-wide school initiative “SchulPOOL NW”
To promote hands-on scientific instruction, six advanced schools in the Leverkusen and Wuppertal region have joined with the “Didactics of Physics” study group at Wuppertal University to form the “SchulPOOL NW” initiative. The pool makes available primarily instructional materials and equipment that all participating schools can use.Total funding: EUR 34,800
Else Lasker-Schüler Comprehensive School in Wuppertal-Elberfeld
The Else Lasker-Schüler Comprehensive School is investing the donation money in its multi-disciplinary and cross-class “special science class” project. The new equipment and materials acquired using the funds are helping students to examine scientific phenomena in hands-on experiments. Total funding: EUR 14,706
Hackenberg Community Elementary School
To awaken enthusiasm for science among the students at Hackenberg Community Elementary School, the staff have designed experiment kits dealing with the themes of water, fire, air, colors and food. The funds from the foundation are being used to purchase basic equipment for the experiment kits and to construct replicas of the miniphenomena stations popular in Germany. Total funding: EUR 4,600
Hilden Vocational College
With the help of funding from the Bayer foundation, Hilden Vocational College is purchasing a scanning tunneling microscope for the project “Experiencing the Nanoworld: Seeing the Invisible.” The microscope will be used in all science classes at the vocational college. Total funding: EUR 13,300
Wichlinghauser Strasse Catholic Elementary School
For experiment-oriented instruction in the “Chemistry in elementary school” project, a multi-purpose room at Wichlinghauser Strasse Catholic Elementary School in Wuppertal was renovated in such a way that the experimental set-up can be used by several classes. The support money is being used to purchase basic equipment and various experimentation materials. Total funding: EUR 1,650
Windrather Talschule in Velbert
At the Windrather Talschule, a Free Waldorf School, disabled and non-disabled students are taught together. The school is using the donation money to redesign its special chemistry room. Special care has been taken here to set up barrier-free workstations. This allows all students sufficient mobility and flexibility in performing experiments. Total funding: EUR 16,500
Wülfrath High School in Wuppertal
Wülfrath High School is using the financial support from Bayer to purchase special experimental apparatus for the “Biodiesel” project of the 12th-grade chemistry class. Total funding: EUR 3,594
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