AWARDS

These cooperations and partnerships with local and international institutions support and promote the ideas and values of our school.


In September 2024, UWC Robert Bosch College was awarded the title of Nature Park School for its integration of the topics of environmental protection and sustainability education into the curriculum.

Recognition as Naturpark-Schule

In May 2024, UWC Robert Bosch College was awarded the title of Nature Park School by the Association of German Nature Parks. This means that we are now one of 34 award-winning schools in the Southern Black Forest Nature Park that integrate education for sustainable development in the region into their curriculum. RBC has designed five modules for this purpose: the pedagogical program in the monastery garden, the school forest project, the interdisciplinary project week “Liveable Cities of the Future”, the “Outdoor Introduction” leaning on Hahn’s experiential education and a module on Alfred Döblin’s novellas as part of German lessons.

Naturpark Südschwarzwald

The Southern Black Forest is home to 42 Nature Park schools. The concept of awarding schools that are particularly committed to nature, environmental protection and sustainability has been in place in the southern Black Forest since 2011. For Sabine Mickler, the inclusion of the RBC is an enrichment for the network of Nature Park Schools: “The UWC in Freiburg places a special focus on environmental issues and sustainability in its curriculum and has developed innovative modules and projects in this context. We are very much looking forward to the exchange and further cooperation.”

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As part of the “Stolpersteine” Service, students not only maintain the stumbling stones in the streets of Freiburg which commemorate Jewish life and the victims of the Holocaust, but also research their biographies.

 

 

Service Learning: School Prize awarded for Stolpersteine Project

The ‘Learning through Engagement Foundation’ (ldE) honors committed schools that shape innovative education through service-learning and implement this form of learning in a qualitatively impressive way. “Making memory possible” is the name of the Stolpersteine initiative in Freiburg, with which our Service Learning Coordinator Tina Patzelt and RBC students were awarded the nationwide school prize ‘Learning through Engagement’. The UWC students will receive a prize money of 1,000 euros, a big step towards the programming of the new Stolpersteine website with support of an agency. 

Making Remembrance Possible

Students take a comprehensive look at the local history of National Socialism, cooperate with the local “Stolpersteine” initiative and develop a multilingual website for living remembrance: Learn more about the LdE project “Making Remembrance Possible”.

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A joint project: the work in the School Garden is coordinated by gardener and pedagogue Eva-Maria Schüle, who is supported by UWC students and Freiburg volunteers.

City of Freiburg Environmental Education prize 2020
Our students are involved in the monitoring process of collecting the data we need to estimate our greenhouse gas emissions and environmental footprint, for example by reporting energy consumption and waste production for their student houses on a weekly basis. One of the main goals of our educational concept is educate and empower our students to become change makers: young adults who are excited about tackling one of the many problems that our world is facing today. As part of their education there, we introduce our students to a problem solving methodology on our Sustainability Special Focus Day challenging them to develop concrete solutions to environmental issues here on our campus, such as plastic or paper waste.


The One World Award was presented by environmental activist Vandana Shiva, German Minister Gert Müller and CEO of Rapunzel Naturkost Joseph Wilhelm.

One World Award

Together with our sister College in Pune, India, UWC Robert Bosch College received an OWA Grand-Prix award in 2017. Given every three years by the organic food producer Rapunzel and the international umbrella organization IOFAM, the One World Award recognizes initiatives that work towards ecological, economic and social improvements for a more just and sustainable world. To support their continued work, the honorees also receive prize money totaling €45,000.

UWC GRAND-PRIX VIDEO

Watch this video to learn more about the shared mission of the UWC Colleges in India and Freiburg. Together, they were honored as recipients of the One World Award Grand-Prix in 2017, recognizing their green initiatives and education for sustainability.

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Proud winners: Mohamed and Ravi beam after the award ceremony with the Aurora Dialogues jury members.

Aurora Humanitarian Prize for UWC Schools und Colleges

UWC Robert Bosch College is the 2017 winner of the Aurora Humanitarian Prize for UWC Schools and Colleges. Together with representatives from 15 other UWC schools, students of our College applied for the prize, submitting their project ‘DoGood’, an online platform to support the integration of refugees in Germany as well as the work of social organizations worldwide. Through this prize, they received €4,000 to support their project in cooperation with AKGG and the social welfare organization Der Paritätische in Hesse, Germany.

THE DoGooD PROJECT

What’s behind the DoGood project? The online store offers hand-made products, supporting social institutions and refugee support groups in Germany and providing a platform for the artists to tell the story behind the products.

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A joint project: the work in the School Garden is coordinated by gardener and pedagogue Eva-Maria Schüle, who is supported by UWC students and Freiburg volunteers.

School Garden Initiative: “Gardening Makes a School”

In fall 2016, the UWC Robert Bosch College monastery garden was officially recognized by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports as well as the Ministry of Agriculture and Consumer Protection in Baden-Württemberg. Of the 153 schools to apply for the Schulgarteninitiative 2015/16, our garden was one of several to receive the highest possible ranking and has been designated as an exemplary school garden. The school garden received an excellent rating again in the 2019 competition, alongside a special price in form of raised beds for flowers and plants. 

Experiential Learning