A variety of educational activities are offered. Exhibitions, self-guiding trails, talks, workshops, special tours or mushroom advice service are mainly part of adult education. Guided tours for groups address nearly all target groups from adults to schools. Special school programmes are run in cooperation with Botany School (i.e. special teacher training centre in cooperation with Berlin Senate Administration for Education: Botanikschule and Fortbildungszentrum für Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung = Education for Sustainable Development Training Centre).
In addition to programmes that focus on botany, nature conservation, renewable resources or climate change other school programmes are based on the theory of Education for Sustainable Development, e.g. 'Fruits of the Tropics', “The World of the Oil Palm”, “Coffee” in which students learn about the connections between everyday life and conditions of employment related to crop cultivation, plants and ecology, conventional and fair trade, as well as product and food. The programme 'Fruits of the Tropics' runs in cooperation with the German Development Service (DED, now GIZ) and the Centre for Developmental Education and Information EPIZ. BGBM’s educational work in collaboration with both training centres was awarded by the German UNESCO Commission for Education for Sustainable Development for 2009 till 2010 and 2011 to 2012 as official Decade Projects. This recognition is to reward examples of good practice and create models worthy of imitation for other projects (German Commission for UNESCO, 2011). More http://www.bgbm.org/de/node/1113
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