ESD certification
BBS Alice Salomon has long been committed to education for sustainable development throughout the school community. In addition to the ESD Spring Festival held on 25.04.2024 and the establishment of Education for Sustainable Development as an internal school development goal, there was another highlight for our school on Wednesday, 30.10.2024.

As part of the certification process, Mr. Hartmann and Mr. Hillingshäuser-Marx from the Pädagogisches Landesinstitut visited us to get an impression of our practice in the context of Education for Sustainable Development.
We were able to present them with a varied program that the ESD team had prepared in advance with the support of our principal Ms. Schulte-Schwering and our pedagogical director Mr. Kappesz.
At a round table in Linz, Ms. Schule-Schwering and Mr. Kappesz, together with Anne Gasper, Marco Gilles, Alisa Krämer and Iradet Bajrami as representatives of the ESD team as well as students from the teachers’ classes, were able to give a lasting impression of our numerous ESD projects during a presentation.
During a subsequent joint tour of the school building and grounds, Mr. Hartmann and Mr. Hillingshäuser-Marx had the opportunity to tour the building and talk to colleagues and pupils to gain a comprehensive picture of our everyday school life and our approach to education for sustainable development.

The entertaining program was crowned by the commitment of our housekeeping colleagues, who accompanied the whole day with healthy, seasonal and regional drinks and delicacies from the kitchen.
Mr. Hartmann and Mr. Hillingshäuser-Marx gave us very positive feedback afterwards and were able to promise us that certification as an ESD school would be granted soon after all the bureaucratic hurdles had been overcome.
We can therefore already say that we have reached another milestone in our ESD goals with the upcoming certification, which we are very pleased about.
Text and photos: Stephan Kappesz and Doris Schulte-Schwering