For the exchange activity 2017, the Matthias-Erzberger-Schule in Biberach (Germany) is planning several activities with the Hangzhou Greentown Yuhua School for the part of the exchange in Germany.

In cooperation with the Chinese teachers and students, several lessons and activities in biotechnology and life sciences will be developed and performed. This will be based on the positive experiences from the last exchange. The main topic of this year’s exchange will be algae. Algae help to develop means of sustainable and environmentally friendly energy and resources which can, quite importantly, also be supplied in a reliable way. Therefore, algae are more and more getting into the focus of worldwide scientific attention in the times of man-made climate change and an increasing scarcity of resources.
For the current exchange, teams of Chinese and German students will actively examine nutritional and biotechnological aspects of the algae spirulina platensis. They will be introduced to state-of-the-art productional and environmental analysis techniques and apply these themselves on site. This will be done in cooperation with the department of industrial biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Biberach. Also, the visit of another scientific institution, the Fraunhofer Institute in Vaihingen is planned.
Another part of the project will be the comparison of different nutrition habits with a focus on algae. Of course, a number of cultural and social activities will give the students good learning opportunities in this intercultural exchange.

For the exchange activity 2017, the Matthias-Erzberger-Schule in Biberach (Germany) is planning several activities with the Hangzhou Greentown Yuhua School for the part of the exchange in Germany.
The Matthias-Erzberger-Schule in Biberach
In cooperation with the Chinese teachers and students, several lessons and activities in biotechnology and life sciences will be developed and performed. This will be based on the positive experiences from the last exchange. The main topic of this year’s exchange will be algae. Algae help to develop means of sustainable and environmentally friendly energy and resources which can, quite importantly, also be supplied in a reliable way. Therefore, algae are more and more getting into the focus of worldwide scientific attention in the times of man-made climate change and an increasing scarcity of resources.
For the current exchange, teams of Chinese and German students will actively examine nutritional and biotechnological aspects of the algae spirulina platensis. They will be introduced to state-of-the-art productional and environmental analysis techniques and apply these themselves on site. This will be done in cooperation with the department of industrial biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Biberach. Also, the visit of another scientific institution, the Fraunhofer Institute in Vaihingen is planned.
Another part of the project will be the comparison of different nutrition habits with a focus on algae. Of course, a number of cultural and social activities will give the students good learning opportunities in this intercultural exchange.