Young Europeans Do Research

Young Europeans do research for our environment. It is our aim to bring together young people from all over Europe who are interested in science, paleontology and environmental questions and to support them in their commitment to the environment-our towns and schools respectively have intensive friendly relations to support these endeavors.

This international environment summer camp of our twin towns offers starting scientists an important opportunity to tackle the problem of environmental protection. This offers the opportunity of stimulating the imagination and creativity of young people and, by using scientific research as the vehicle, to introduce them to the idea of working together to create our common European future. In this project we see a point for internatianol co-operation.

The discussion of the results will certainly add to the scientific knowledge of the young researchers. Moreover, and that is our greatest wish it will help stimulate personal contacts and friendships and serve as an example to others. The results of the studies by the all-European research team will be included int he environmental planning of the participating projects of the towns. There is hardly a young person who is not concerned about  the preservation of our natural habitat. To recognize environmental pollution, to discover and develop ecologically sounfd technollogies-those are the indispensable building blocks for our future. Young  people want to accept responsibility, develop ideas, invest time and effort, see results for their future and for our environment.

We intend to bring young people together who know that environment knows no national borderlines. The prospects for a future worth living in can only be realized if there is co-operation among nations and towns. There is a great tradition of co-operation among the Hansa towns. We want to do it on a low level, ont he communal level of  the twin towns which offers good opportunities in this field. It is not a project of the national states but a project which shows that common problems can be solved anywhere by initative from the basis.

The pupils who take part have one thing in common: practical thinking, experience in field research and laboratory work, as well as an individual knowledge of geography, botany, zoology or chemistry. The whole team is involved in the problems of climate change but they will also see that measures taken by themselves and, or by the governments will be( more or less) the same all over Europe.