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To cope with social challenges, science and civil society are called together. The WILA Bonn pairs both sides up.

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53113 Bonn

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1. Vorsitzende und Geschäftsführung: Gerald Knauf
2. Vorsitzende und Geschäftsführung: Dr. Anke Valentin

3. Vorsitzender: Frank Teller
4. Vorsitzender: Norbert Steinhaus

WILA Arbeitsmarkt: Krischan Ostenrath

WILA Bildungszentrum: Carola Lehmann

Contact Information

Telephone: 0228 201 61-0
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Internet address: www.wilabonn.de

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Entry in: Vereinsregister
Register Number: 20 VR 5026
Register Court: Amtsgericht Bonn

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Awards

The projects of WILA Bonn are funded by the European Commission, federal and state ministries, municipalities, the employment agency and foundations. Get an overview of the projects that have been awarded:

Nature into grey zones
Winner of the "Blue Compass"

Nature into grey zones
1st place in competition ‚ValueSoil‘

Nature into grey zones
Qualified project of KlimaExpo.NRW

Bonn Science Shop
Place of Progress NRW 2015

Nature into grey zones
Official project of the UN decade ‚Biodiversity‘ 2015

Role play ‚Crime Scene Forrest‘
Official project of the UN decade ‚Biodiversity‘ 2013

Taste EE (Renewable Energy)
365 Places in the Land of Ideas‘

Role play ‚Crime Scene Forrest‘
German Award Environmental Protection 2011

Leuchtpol
Official Acitivity of the UN decade ‚Education for sustainable development‘

Renewable Energy Reporters on the road
Official Acitivity of the UN decade ‚Education for sustainable development‘

Role play ‚International Environmental Policy‘
Official Acitivity of the UN decade ‚Education for sustainable development‘

Role play‚ Surface Areas: Using them not consuming them‘
Official Acitivity of the UN decade ‚Education for sustainable development‘

Magic Kitchen
Advancement award ‚strong kids network, AOK (health insurance company)

Guiding principles

Mission statement: to educate - to know - to act

Background of all projects and events of WILA Bonn is the aim of enabling people to use their knowledge for a socially acceptable change of their natural and social environment. But only those can act who have understood the societal challenges and their options for action. Therefore the education of people is a major concern of WILA Bonn, so that they acquire knowledge and are empowered to act. This addresses citizens to make them act socially competent, but also scientists, who we want to motivate to consciously take up the issues of civil society.

We work ...

independently

Since the foundation of Bonn Science Shop, the role of civil society has become ever more important. More than in former days it is a question of citizens and community groups being able to get involved in an informed and competent manner and that - when public decisions on projects and developments are to be made - there should be a mediation of interests between civil society and public decision makers. The inclusion of Bonn Science Shop and also of public policy makers in such processes guarantees that citizens‘ interests are taken into account in a competent and targeted manner.

Bonn Science Shop and its staff have a social, an ethical approach. We are value-driven. At the same time we are independent of any individual interests and party-political perspectives and thus develop concepts to show the way to sustainable action.

in a transdisciplinary manner

We can only do our work successfully if we cooperate with scientists of various disciplines - within the Science Shop and beyond.

As important to us as inter-disciplinary cooperation with scientists is our transdisciplinary work, i.e. the inclusion of those without whose actions the challenges of society could not be met: the people who in their locality or in their profession make sure that the energy revolution is making progress, that land consumption is reduced, that children turn into discoverers and scientists are confronted with citizens‘ requests and needs.

with an innovative approach

When renewable energy boomed at the beginning of the millennium, it was already foreseeable, beyond the enthusiasm: finding the experts will turn into a bottleneck which can slow down the phasing out from nuclear and fossil-fuel energy. A typical subject for Bonn Science Shop: how to bring companies, Higher Education Institutes and the potential workforce together, close information gaps, or motivate the young to become the workforce of tomorrow and part of the energy revolution?

Land consumption - largely unnoticed by the public - threatens biodiversity. Who are the actors? How can municipalities, district administrations, farmers, tourism or even environmental campaigners be induced to jointly and systematically approach and discuss the usage of their land areas?

About us

Since 1984 Bonn Science Shop (WILA Bonn) dedicates its work to key social challenges: the enormous land use, energy transition, sustainable work fields, social justice, just to name a few. Such challenges can only be overcome when science takes them up, and citizens are able to understand even highly complex matters so well that they are able to act accordingly. This is the interface WILA Bonn is working on.

Funding

The Bonn Science Shop is a non-profit organization, working on a costcovering but not profit-orientated basis. The institution as a whole does not receive any official funding. The Bonn Science Shop only receives regular part-funding for its Education Centre because - according to the Landesweiterbildungsgesetz NRW - it is a accredited institution for further education and training.

Basically we finance our work through information, measuring and consultancy services as well as research projects supported by third party funds. The projects of the Bonn Science Shop are funded - amongst others - by the European Commission, German Federal and State Ministries, Federal Offices, and funding networks such as Klimakreis Köln, and also by foundations and single local authorities.

History

Indignation about the fact that scientists were doing their research in an ‚ivory tower‘ and citizens had no benefit from it at all - that was the motivation for a handful of students to found the Science Shop in 1984.

Science Shops in these days were also set up in 7 other German towns, following a Dutch example. But different from the situation in the Netherlands, Science Shops in Germany have not received any public funding to date. Bonn Science Shop with around 35 employees and a turnover of around three million Euros is the largest Science Shop worldwide and is economically standing on its own feet.