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Description of main activities carried in communication and outreach with universities Is your Institution involved with Universities in any teaching / education programme? Could you please identify and briefly explain it? (if available, with links to the specific websites of the referred activities)

BGBM is involved in several courses of the Institute of Biology at Freie Universität Berlin. Within the bachelor programme, we cover the lecture “Das Pflanzenreich” (the plant kingdom) and supervise the courses „Bestimmungsübungen“ (plant determination) and „Grundpraktikum“ (basic course) of the “Modul Botanik”.

In the master programme „Evolution und Biodiversität II“ we provide courses in the “Modul Evolution und Biodiversität II”. Furthermore dissertations and other theses are supervised. http://www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/biologie/arbeitsgruppen/botanik/ag_borsch...

Description of main activities carried in communication and outreach with non-universities Is your Institution involved in a non-University based Education Programme)? With other partners? (Please identify the programme(s) and the link(s) to the specific website(s))

BGBM takes place in the so-called “ecological year” programme and offers two internships in cooperation with Botany School (see below) and Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin http://www.stiftung-naturschutz.de/freiwilligendienste/foej/einsatzstell... and http://www.stiftung-naturschutz.de/freiwilligendienste/foej/einsatzstell...

Several internships for students are available.

Description of On-Line education courses Does your Institution give any On-Line education courses? Which ones? Since when? With other partners? Is it a regular programme?

Description of other activities carried in communication and outreach Any other relevant information on Education and / or Training specifically carried out by your Institution (e.g. guided tours, school programmes, other public education programmes)?

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

Description of main activities carried out in training Is your Institution involved in any Training Project? With other partners? (Please identify the project(s) and the link(s) to the specific website(s)(if available, links to the specific websites of the referred activities)

Is your Institution involved in any Training Project? With other partners? (Please identify the project(s) and the link(s) to the specific website(s)

BGBM trains gardeners (gardener for ornamental plants and perennial plants) in a three-year vocational training programme. http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/ausbildung/ausbildungsberufe/gaertner-in/i...

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