Schoolchildren with great solutions for Aarhus 2017 project

In recent weeks, Mid-Jutland schoolchildren have worked intensively with the Aarhus 2017 project INDEX: Design to Improve Life Challenge. The students’ many good solutions to the challenges of the future have now been published on INDEX’ website.

The children are our future. And the Aarhus 2017 project INDEX: Design to Improve Life Challenge is all about letting the kids have their say and give their views on how best to solve the challenges that society faces in the future.

The initiative is a different teaching programme organized by Aarhus 2017 in collaboration with the internationally recognized non-profit organization INDEX: Design to Improve Life. Nine municipalities and 1,000 schoolchildren in the Central Denmark Region participate in the project. Once a year for three years, students receive a challenge that is about sustainability, diversity and democracy. After three years, the students present their vision of the future city on a joint exhibition.

In recent weeks, Mid-Jutland schoolchildren from the 4th grade on, among other, Ellevang School, Skødstrup School, Lund School, Mårslet School and Saksild School have embarked on the first challenge. Here, the students were using innovative ways of working to meet the challenge "Climate Adaptation – a focus on water". The students had to find sustainable solutions to flooding in basements and roads created by the increased number of cloudburst caused by climate change.

The challenge has resulted in 53 good suggestions, including "The floating car", "The private lifeboat", "Water Absorbent roundabout" and many more.

See all the proposals on INDEX 'website.