School Labs Network

Come along to the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and explore the oceans’ mysteries and the secrets of sea ice. Visit the school lab SEASIDE which stands for Science and Education @ the AWI: SIngle Day Experiments and spend a day or more experimenting at the research centre.

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www.awi.de/en/discover/school_projects_sea

At DESY’s school labs modern physics come alive. The institutes of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY are located in Hamburg and Zeuthen near Berlin. Experimental vacuum laboratories are available to school classes at both sites. Hamburg also offers the additional topic of radiology.

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www.physik-begreifen.desy.de (German)

Lab students – this is the name given to the young people taking part in the Life-Science Lab programmes at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. Special programmes are open to particularly talented and interested school pupils. They have one aim in common: to find solutions to some of the major challenges of our times.

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www.life-science-lab.org

Understanding the mysteries of flight, getting satellites into orbit or comets into the laboratory, or using so-called paramecia, or slipper aminalcules, as mini-astronauts, bringing robots to life, working with radioactive instruments or looking right into the heart of a gas turbine. These aren’t scenes from a new science fiction film, but just some of the fascinating topics that await you in the DLR_School_Labs at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt.

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www.schoollab.dlr.de (German)

Curiosity does have its rewards at the Ju Lab, the school lab at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. At Europe’s biggest interdisciplinary research institute you will be able to investigate many exciting topics, which are organised according to the themes that researchers in Jülich work on day to day.

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www.fz-juelich.de/julab

15 billion years after the Big Bang and the creation of the universe you find out about the smallest particles of matter in the school lab at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI). Over millions of years the universe has been expanding constantly, cooling as it goes. In the process, the building blocks of atoms were created, then atoms, elements and finally, plants, animals and humans.

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www.gsi.de/schuelerlabor (German)

At GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, topics of marine biology, chemistry, physics and geology offer themselves for exploration in projects by pupils. Anything but a „dry“ exercise...!

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www.geomar.de/Entdecken/schule

Sunny days at the Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy! Enjoy a trip into the world of physics research and learn all about solar energy research and structural research.

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www.helmholtz-berlin.de/schuelerlabor (German)

Nature is so diverse. Each hair, each flake of skin, the tiniest human cell is like a chip containing clear proof of its origin. A visit to the school lab at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig builds a bridge between theory and practical use. Exciting experiments add depth to what you’ve learned in biology lessons at school.

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www.bios-braunschweig.de (German)

As we breathe, ten to twenty thousand litres of air pass through our lungs daily. We take in a cocktail of vital gases, but also dangerous fumes, too. At the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ you can find out about how pollutants can be detected and how they can be degraded, too.

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www.ufz-schuelerlabor.de

What will happen when fossil energy sources have been used up? What regenerative energy sources can be used and how? What’s in water? School pupils from the 9th and 10th grade upward and students from vocational colleges can answer these questions for themselves in the “Quantensprung” school lab at the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht. 

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www.hzg.de/schuelerlabor

What does a geoscientist actually do? At the Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam, the German Research Centre for Geosciences – GFZ for short – our staff have come up with some marvellous ways to let tomorrow’s young scientists get an idea of the work they do. Whether on a work placement, a short visit, or a whole day at the GeoLab school lab with your class, you’re welcome to come along and find out more about System Earth.

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www.geolab.gfz-potsdam.de (German)

Getting the children of today interested in science produces potential scientists for tomorrow. At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology they realised this early on. No monotony here, but three separate school labs offering completely different topics. The three labs focusing on nuclear safety research, environment, and gene technology welcome pupils to spend a day investigating and experimenting.

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www.fortbildung.kit.edu

“Blood is a juice of very special kind”, as Goethe’s Mephisto says to Faust. At the Max Delbrueck Center’s “Gläsernes Labor” in Berlin-Buch you and your classmates can discover just how exciting practical biology lessons can be. At the two life science learning labs you can identify your own blood group or do hands-on experiments in genetics and cell biology.

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www.glaesernes-labor.de

How exciting to see what researchers know about the smallest particles of matter and what they’re investigating. Of course they’re proud of their findings and want to present them to the public, so it’s important that they let journalists in on their secrets.

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www.kidsbits.info (German)