Excursions

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As part of the advanced training programme, the SPDL-scholarship holders visit vocational learning spaces on two days and take part in full-day excursions on two days. Here they gain insights in the vocational fields of action of geospatial technologies, national park management, biodiversity, ecology, education, and agricultural and forestry sciences in order to illustrate the practical relevance of these thematic fields and to establish contacts with representatives of vocational practice. Moreover, this allows the different natural and cultural environments of Germany to be experienced in a participant-activating manner.

The participants…

• experience the practical fields of action of geospatial technologies;
• engage in a subject-specific, content-related dialog with representatives of vocational practice;
• know diverse structures and concepts as well as the legal guidelines of conservation areas, agricultural operations, and forestry operations in Germany;
• know the autochthonous and allochthonous flora and fauna of Germany;
• get to know Germany as a location for science;
• become familiar with the structures in the urban and rural areas of Germany;
• gain insights into German society and culture.

The excursion programme for 2026 includes the following activities:

• 08.09.2026: Social event - Print your GeoTraining T-Shirt at “feinsieben”
• 11.09.2026: Night Watchman Tour in the city of Osnabrück
• 13.09.2026: Trip to the North Sea and mudflat hike in Wremen with a guide, meet geography students from Osnabrück university → interactive teamwork and mudflat-ralley
• 15.09.2026: Visiting German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) in Osnabrück and Exhibition Mission Aqua, afterwards: visit of the botanical garden from Osnabrück University
• 17.09.2026: pub crawl in the city of Osnabrück - experience Osnabrücks best pubs
• 19.09.2026: Piesberg Culture & Landscape Park - hike
• 27.09.-28.09.2026: Visiting the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the DAAD-Head Quarter in Bonn and meeting with participants from other Summer Schools
• 27.09.-28.09.2026: Boat trip on the river Rhine in Cologne

Individual cultural experience: individual 1-day or 2-day city tour to a destination of choice → e.g. Münster, Bremen, Oldenburg, Hamburg, Berlin, Lake Dümmer…