City4Future educational project awarded Climate Protection Prize 2025

The project ‘City4Future – Develop your climate-friendly city of the future!’, which was primarily developed by the Department of Science Education at the University of Bamberg, combines climate education, sustainability and democratic participation. City4Future is aimed at pupils in grades 7 to 10 of all types of secondary schools and enables them to design their own climate-friendly cities in an interdisciplinary format. In practice-oriented modules, participants address key issues for the future, such as energy efficiency, renewable energies and their storage, and sustainable urban development, and develop concrete solutions for a sustainable model city based on their own experiments. Through role-playing games, for example, young people develop a broad understanding of issues such as climate justice from regional, national and global perspectives.

The project was particularly praised for its high practical relevance, nationwide transferability and social impact. City4Future is used throughout Germany. The handbook is available as a free OER on the Wissensfabrik website, and experimental materials are also provided to schools free of charge through the education partner principle.

These collaborations demonstrate how education, science and business can work together to make effective contributions to climate education. 

Click here to watch the short film “City4Future – Develop your climate-friendly city of the future!”