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WaldKlima-App - Smartphone app and thematic geocaches to communicate the Forest Climate Fund topics Forests and climate change and CO2 sequestration by forests - development and launch
Project
Project code: 28WC506201
Contract period: 01.07.2015
- 30.06.2017
Budget: 265,203 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
The goal of this project is to communicate the main Waldklimafonds topics forests and climate change and car-bon sequestration in forests to multipliers and end-users by means of modern, interactive media. A smartphone application (app) and thematic geocaches are developed. The main target group is teenagers and young adults in their role as future decision makers as well as multipliers in environmental education, whose awareness and in-terest in forest and climate change topics will be raised. The app ('WaldKlima-App') is an infotainment product that can be used throughout Germany. The geocaches in contrast will be set up locally to highlight specific for-estry projects in the Pfälzerwald region, and to provide an incentive for young people to go into the forest. In workshops and meetings, contents for the app and geocaches are developed together with stakeholders from the forest and climate sector (e.g. forestry and environmental administration, NGOs, forest owners, other beneficiaries of the Waldklimafonds) and with young people, encouraging them to contribute and critically discuss the app and geocaches. The app itself is developed in close cooperation with pupils from secondary schools in the context of an extracurricular technology class. The app and geocaches will be promoted in cooperation with regional and nationwide educational institutions such as the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW). An information campaign (information booths, press work, website: www.waldklima-app.de) will be mounted and the products will be available free to end users in the appropriate internet market places.
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Subjects
- Silviculture
- Climate Change
- Computer science
