KlimaOER

The KlimaOER project was launched in June 2024 in the meteorological department at the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Bonn. We are working in cooperation with the Universities of Cologne, Kalsruhe and Hamburg and the project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (German: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF) for a period of 3 years. There is a cooperation with the University Partnership for Atmospheric Sciences (UPAS). Leonie Esters, Lisa Schielicke and Insa Thiele-Eich are leading the project in Bonn. The project is coordinated by Ellen Arimond.

What is OER?

"Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials of any kind and in any medium that are available under an open license. Such a license enables free access as well as free use, editing and redistribution by third parties without or with minor restrictions. The copyright holders themselves determine which rights of use they grant and which rights they reserve." (Definition from UNESCO.de)

What is KlimaOER?

The OER community is constantly growing and must be further promoted, spreaded and strengthened. To this, KlimaOER is to become a central point of contact for the OER network. Experts who have already created OER materials should be incorporated into a mentoring program in order to pass on their knowledge to those interested in OER, making it easier to spread OER and create more content. To ensure that the educational materials are also accessible to everyone, guidelines, e.g. on inclusion (more on this in the project application), are needed for the people who create them. These will be produced in the course of the project.