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Projects of the regional office
Decentralised water management for a school media centre in Cameroon
Mon, 11/23/2009 - 9:44pm — andreas
Clean drinking water is a scarce commodity for many people in our world. 1.2 billion people have no access to this most important of life's commodities, whilst over 2 billion are not connected to a waste water system. 80% of disease in developing countries can be attributed to contaminated water. In many African nations the water supply, use of water and purification are a vital focus in improving the living conditions of the population. Droughts are particularly prevalent in rural areas, with the route to the nearest water source often requiring hours of marching. In industrialised countries, the use of water is also an important subject.
The Berlin regional office’s wind turbine on the site of the Peter- Lenné School Berlin
Mon, 11/23/2009 - 9:53pm — andreas
For decades, the Berlin Regional Office for the Promotion of Industrial Occupations in Developing Countries has been conducting courses for the training and education of specialist and management personnel from developing countries. 
Recently there has been a greater emphasis on training and education in the fields of water management and renewable energy forms. As part of the 2007/08 course, with a focus on the use of renewable energy forms such as solar power, photovoltaics, wind power and biogas, a wind turbine was erected in the summer together with course participants (counterparts) on the site of the Peter Lenné School, the home of the headquarters of the regional office. The course on the use of renewable energy forms runs at the Knobelsdorff School, Berlin. Students attending this school made a considerable contribution to the construction of the wind turbine.
Bio energy laboratory for renewable energy forms - BELARE
Mon, 11/23/2009 - 11:05pm — andreasThe Regional Office for the Promotion of Industrial Occupations in Developing Countries at the Peter Lenné School has worked together with the Knobelsdorff School and the Förderzentrum für Internationale Studierende und Wissenschaftler inside e. V. [centre for promoting international students and scientists] to design a house for renewable energy forms on the school’s site in Steglitz-Zehlendorf. It has been designed as learning lab, in which biogas in particular is to be generated through the rotting of biomass. 
What is special about BELARE?
BELARE is an educational energy source, a complete educational concept. BELARE is a building in which mental energy is released for sustainability.
With BELARE, the intention is to demonstrate how climate change can be countered with renewable energy. BELARE makes it possible to experience renewable energy in all senses – not only through tests and analyses in the laboratory but also through the construction of simple devices for energy recovery in our workshops, through the cultivation of suitable plants on our school site and in our greenhouses, through the collection of biomass in our animal stalls and in our fields and through the recycling of refuse as manure for our school garden. Expressed in short: With BELARE, we students can make the generation and utilisation of renewable energies tangible.
Landesstelle für gewerbliche Berufsförderung in Entwicklungsländern
OSZ Agrarwirtschaft Berlin, Steglitz-Zehlendorf Hartmannsweilerweg 29, 14163 Berlin, Telefon +49 (0)30 81 490 - 112/116