Completed project · 2010
Study on provision for promoting the interest of young people in science and technology in north-western Lower Saxony and the state of Bremen
The study “PROMOTECH”, commissioned by the employers’ association of the metal and electrical industry NORDMETALL, provides an overview of the scope and the various forms of provision for promoting the interest of children and young people in technology and the natural sciences in northern Germany – in particular in the Bremen/Oldenburg metropolitan region and north-western Lower Saxony.
Due to the federal structure of the German education system, there are no overviews or statistics on the various forms and contents of provision. Which projects and initiatives take place in which schools, and to what extent, is primarily the responsibility of the individual schools. On the one hand, this has the advantage that companies and business-related associations can get involved without cumbersome formal hurdles; on the other hand, this structure of additive projects not only leads to a lack of transparency, but also runs the risk that individual schools become “project-weary”, or that one-sided concentrations on social hotspots or certain types of school arise. Since the complexity of the initiatives does not permit a complete inventory, the study drew up a typology of the various initiatives and projects.