``Sustainability Make-It-Yourself'' - the Environmental-Make@thon as an innovative science communication format

Abstract

With regard to the Corona pandemic in the early 2020s, education (not only) in the natural sciences required a methodological and didactic rethink. For this reason, the Environmental-Make@thon was designed, carried out and evaluated. The participants spent a week intensively dealing with plastic waste and microplastics and designed innovative campaigns to solve the plastic waste problem. As a digital and innovative science communication format, the Environmental-Make@thon not only represents a creativity-enhancing, learning- and action-oriented setting, but also does justice to the social relevance of sustainability education.