Do you want to broaden your horizons? Our Discover Area combines education with entertainment and offers a diverse range of workshops, talks, and sessions on relevant topics such as sustainability, diversity & inclusion, and international exchange. Universities, schools, NGOs, and experts present content designed to inspire reflection and ignite your spirit of discovery. Come along and explore something new!
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Experience an interactive journey of discovery through the 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals – from climate protection and human rights to fair trade in sport and beyond. At various stations, you will find exciting insights, playful learning opportunities, and inspiring activities suitable for all ages. Immerse yourself in a festival full of motivation, education, and shared responsibility for our future. Collect sustainable goodies as a reward for your engagement and discover additional (local) opportunities to get involved. Together, let's create a greener, fairer, and more sustainable world – join in!
Programme: Discover Route – 17 Sustainable Development Goals Presentation & Activation
Attendance: Open to all
City: Bochum (Essen, Duisburg)
Dates: 17 – 20 July 2025
The National Anti-Doping Agency Germany (NADA) is dedicated to doping prevention, independent testing, and fair competition. Through educational programmes and testing, NADA ensures the integrity of sport and promotes a doping-free environment.
Programme: Discover Route – Knowledge and Medication Quiz
Participation: Open to all
City: Bochum
Location: Kesselwiese
Dates: 17 – 20 July 2025
The Robert Enke Foundation was established in 2010 to honour the memory of former national goalkeeper Robert Enke and to raise greater societal awareness of depression. The foundation is active in two main areas: education, research, and treatment of depression, as well as supporting projects that assist children with heart conditions.
Programme: Interactive quiz, Wheel of fortune
Participation: Open to all
City: Bochum
Location: Hall 1
Dates: 19 - 20 July 2025
Klimabildung e.V. is a team of dedicated individuals who are committed—creatively, action-oriented, and respectfully—to education for sustainable development (ESD), climate justice, and sustainability. The association acts as a multiplier at various levels. In collaboration with diverse stakeholders and experts, they develop programs that empower people to help shape a more climate-just world.
Programme: Discover Route – Workshops on the topic of “Climate Handprint”
Participation: Open to all
City: Bochum
Location: Kesselwiese
Date: 20 July 2025
Movement brings change, and sport unites nations. The platform move4sustainability addresses pressing questions around sustainable sport and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in sport and physical education. move4sustainability is an initiative from Austria that has been working since 2019 on sustainable sport and ESD in sports and PE. Movement brings change — and sport connects people across borders. move4sustainability focuses on key questions of sustainable development in the context of sport and supports multipliers and organizations from education and sport in building competencies and approaching sustainability in a structured way. The goal is to initiate sustainable change in and through sport and to effectively implement ESD.
Programme: Discover Route – Workshops on the topic of “Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)” & info booth with quiz game
Participation: Open to all
City: Bochum
Location: Kesselwiese
Date: 19 July 2025
Germanwatch is an independent environmental, development, and human rights organization committed to sustainable global development. For us, sustainability means social justice, ecological compatibility, and economic viability. We look back on more than 30 years of experience and over 650 successfully completed projects. During this time, we have established ourselves as an influential civil society actor. Many milestones in climate and development policy would have been achieved later—or perhaps not at all—without Germanwatch.
Programme: Discover Route – Interactive action booth on environmental, development, and human rights topics
Participation: Open to all
City: Bochum
Location: Kesselwiese
Dates: 18 - 20 July 2025
Humboldtⁿ – The Sustainability Initiative of Universities in North Rhine-Westphalia
In 2021, the 16 universities of North Rhine-Westphalia joined forces with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy to establish the Humboldtⁿ initiative, aimed at actively promoting sustainability within higher education institutions. Humboldtⁿ serves as a multiplier and intermediary, coordinating shared research interests among universities, the Wuppertal Institute, and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It consolidates expertise in sustainability research.
Programme: Discover Route – SDG Quiz (University of Witten/Herdecke); Virtual Reality Meets Education for Sustainable Development (FernUniversität in Hagen)
Participation: Open to all
City: Bochum
Location: Hall 1
Dates: 17 – 18 July 2025
UniverCity Bochum e.V. is the interdisciplinary and cross-institutional knowledge network in Bochum. Central to its mission is the belief that societal challenges can no longer be addressed in isolation, but only through interconnected knowledge and shared responsibility. Strategic future planning requires innovative forms of collaboration and a close partnership between academia, local government, industry, and civil society. UniverCity Bochum e.V. aims to act as a catalyst for an open culture of innovation and transfer that sustainably strengthens Bochum.
Programme: Try-Out; Experience Energy; Scan & Explore
Participation: Open to all
City: Bochum
Location: Hall 1
Date: 17 – 18 July 2025
The German Research Centre for Elite Sport Cologne (momentum) stands for "Research, Performance, and Sport" in adult and youth elite sports. In addition to supporting top athletes, it also conducts research activities related to space missions, clinical questions, older adults, as well as children and adolescents. Both the scientific and practical aims are to improve understanding of stress stimuli and the resulting responses at various levels (organ systems, organs, cells, molecules).
Programme: Discover Route
Participation: Open to all
City: Bochum
Location: Hall 1
Dates: 17 – 18 July 2025