Eco Missions
At a glance
- Project leader : Rahel Skelton
- Deputy of project leader : Dr. Petra Bättig-Frey
- Project team : Adrian Busin, Roland Gassmann, Ennio Mariani, Vladimira Scheidegger, Davide Stallone, Erich Stutz
- Project budget : CHF 101'480
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : Other (Lotteriefonds Kanton Zürich)
- Project partner : Zürich Escape GmbH
- Contact person : Rahel Skelton
Description
Escape Rooms and Outdoor Missions are booming: Electronic scavenger hunts, foxtrails, geocaching, or mobile phone trails are a popular leisure activity among young families or young people. Our new "Eco Missions" offer is designed to do justice to these new leisure activities. In an eco mission, the various aspects of these offers (puzzles, scavenger hunt, competition) are cleverly combined to convey scientific content in an entertaining way. Our gardens serve as an attractive setting and our researchers provide the interesting content, which is packed into exciting stories and tricky puzzles. In this way, we offer a contemporary leisure program that also highlights current research topics in the field of sustainability. The aim of the Öko Missions is to attract a completely new target group to the gardens on the Grüental campus and to raise awareness of sustainability.
Publications
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Bättig-Frey, Petra; West, Mirjam; Skelton, Rahel; Berger, Verena,
2023.
How to save the world with zombies? : a scientainment approach to engage young people.
Journal of Science Communication.
22(05), pp. N01.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.22323/2.22050801
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Bättig-Frey, Petra; Müller, Urs,
2023.
Using zombies to communicate climate change!
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In:
Fischer, Daniel; Sahakian, Marlyne; King, Jordan; Dyer, Jen; Seyfang, Gill, eds.,
Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption.
London:
Routledge.
pp. 277-281.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003018537
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Bättig-Frey, Petra; Jäger, Monica Ursina; Müller, Urs,
2020.
Narrative environments : new settings for environmental education.
In:
Conference Abstracts : Health, Environment, and Education in Challenging Times.
The 14th Winter Meeting : The International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Education about Health and the Environment, online, 4-5 December 2020.
pp. 2.
Available from: https://hee-journal.uni-koeln.de/winter-meeting
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Bättig-Frey, Petra; Berger, Verena; Skelton, Rahel,
2020.
Zombie attack! : using scientainment to teach about sustainable food [paper].
In:
WSF 2020 : Program and Abstract Book.
The 8th World Sustainability Forum, Virtual, 15-17 September 2020.
Basel:
MDPI.