What kind of world do you want to live in?
this question we asked ourselves
we started the kinderuni 2016
to design
we want to live in a world with
people changing their perspective
They may be empathetic with people
They know how to make them sustainable
and for your successor generation
can act with people theirs
actively shaping the future instead of just on
the present to react with people
who dare to develop utopias
and who also dare
traditional knowledge stocks too
question independently and
acting is part of it
each of us was kind and they remember
certainly remember what it was like
looked curiously at the world
which was a big adventure in front of them
And still there are children
open and curious they want themselves
try out
Remember when you were a kid and
they know relatively little facts about
had disposal
and still have not stopped after
solutions and answers to look up to
they found her
today it is so we mainly
as adult social media
consume and algorithms and
to construct realities
children are just like us the media
exposed
mostly as consumers of consumers
books in tv shows or when
they play computer games one
Kinderuni should from our point of view
help children with knowledge
Consumers to knowledge producers
and to make her own world
become
we will show you an example now
children and unfortunately often adults
Just accept the knowledge you see
experiments and thinking they know what
There’s already a Chinese happening there
saying I’ll show it to you and you
you will forget it
I’ll tell you and you will
maybe at
I read it to do it yourself and you will
we understand we have a little here
brought experiment and indeed one
Balloon in a bottle
if I tried this now
post balloon on what do you think
what happens will succeed me
who thinks i put this balloon in
this bottle can blow up that are
not really many we will now
let’s try the bottle
hold
it does not really work out that way
it does not work
Do you have an idea why not?
works why can not do that
success
In this bottle is air in it when I
Now try this other balloon
The air can not blow on
escape
we have a second bottle
we prepared a little here is one
hole in there so now we do the same
experiment one more time though
consider them first for Yourself
happens now
we have two balloons but you
see it works i have that
even with children 20 children
stood around me and said that
we know experiment but that is
boring nice what happens there and
no child had to happen and what
no child could do it himself
by having it yourself
had tried children and as
massive marketing strategy one
Kollegin asked us in 2008
this question and it is not quite
unjustified since 2002 there are
now over 50 children
universities at all major universities in
Germany with Switzerland
Most of the time it looks like it’s here
Mostly even without a balloon
the children are sitting and just like they are
watching us look at the children
the professors or the professor in front
To enjoy this edutainment they
happy, but he likes it afterwards
they are all uncertain about that
what just happened is that
scientific phenomena what
underlying the experiment
them closed by learning can be seen in
not necessarily in this connection
speak space for your own questions
or to pursue these own questions
we do not exist in such a concept
are three with our conception
gone further and that first
we have an overarching theme
wanted what from several perspectives
can be considered and what also
Lebenswelt relation for the children has as
we have this overarching topic
year everything plastic or what that
is a topic that I have from many
perspectives and what
The children also directly affects
the next one is that we are not one
have a one-time lecture but one
long-term research in small
there the children have the seminars
opportunity in the longer term
Ask to ask yourself questions
ask and play too
There were ten different seminars
different perspectives
I just want three
exemplify that was one
that music seminar in which the children
Instruments made of plastic
have and a little orchestra
had occurred at the end
There was a seminar on the subject
biodegradable plastics in the the
Children have learned that too
milk and potatoes plastics
can produce and also a seminar
who wants plasticity in me then
which the children of the problematic
the plastic waste accepted nearer
to have
the third step and that is a very
important step is the public
visualize the results we have
just last saturday this
final presentation in the auditorium then
and the seminars are very proud
and engages the visitors the
results presented and there too
discussed and other findings
won and the results of one
evaluation were very encouraging
About 90 percent of the children said
we have the feeling we have something
learned new and also 96 percent of
Parents said we would use this concept
and recommend the kinderuni
that is also important was unfortunately in the
moment still the registration to a
Kinderuni predominantly about the parents
is exactly what we were very happy
has in this survey was that
The children would like to continue to enjoy
research
they also have on the
final event once again
she said that she would like to continue
For example, if it would find out
at all environmentally friendly plastic
there or they have critically reflected
how a world would look like in
There is no plastic
how can we work together with them?
together
our idea of a kinderuni continues
If you are interested, for example
also have a similar format in the
Think of an education for one
Sustainable development to shape the
does not have to be one
he sees that can also be in the
be school or in the leisure area then
We want you all we want you
very motivated for one thing
do not be put off by the
apparently relatively large organizations
and also from the staff what you for it
because like us we need our own
There is always something to tell about experience
a very big readiness of
grow up for kids too
engage
for the second, let us together
Make sure all children have access
find such offered as mine
colleague just already said stop
in most cases parents are children
register and especially at the kinderuni
it is so that it is above all things
Parents are themselves one
have academic background and we
Of course, you also want to be in
especially the children
otherwise maybe not even
no contact with the university
had
there we are still a fitting
to find the format of the registration
the duel be independent as possible
is the third point
dare to ask children
that’s maybe
harder to plan but we can
we are not limited to it only
to know what we have to
want to pass on children
because our knowledge always refers to
what has been on that
past and it finally goes
about the future it’s about our future
and the future of the children
and as Joseph Beuys once said
if we are not able
to invent our future for ourselves
then maybe we could
get one so we do not want
That’s why we want to encourage and encourage them
let us leave the unpredictable way
go
the feedback of the posi of the teacher
was very positive
but it was very exciting with the
to research children
It was sometimes a bit exhausting
but it was also very enriching
to discuss the children’s questions
find ways to find answers and
continue to research exactly and we hope
that you go out with the question today
What do I want to do?
how would i do that in such
We want to live a world
[Applause]
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