What does the starry sky tell us? What happens behind the scenes of a swimming pool? And how does our brain work? At the "Future Day for Girls and Boys in Lower Saxony", pupils were given exciting insights into the study and training opportunities at our university.
Around 300 children and young people in grades five to ten swapped the classroom for places on campus and at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) on Future Day. They were able to choose from 38 different programme items and try out in laboratories, Institutes or workshops which tasks and experiments characterise the everyday work of researchers and craftspeople. The Future Day was organised by the university's Central Equal Opportunities Office.
The "Future Day for Girls and Boys in Lower Saxony" has been organised in parallel to the nationwide Girls' Day / Boys' Day since 2005. It is regarded as an important building block in career guidance. On this day, girls and boys are encouraged to explore "gender-atypical" academic appointments, including those that they have not previously considered, for example due to a lack of role models.
The university currently offers training in 13 academic appointments, including commercial and skilled trades, as well as more than 100 degree programmes. It also offers the opportunity to gain initial work experience through voluntary services - such as a voluntary academic year, a voluntary social year or a voluntary ecological year.
