Shape Your Trip

Two people are looking at a physical map. One person points to a specific point or route on the map, perhaps to plan a route or identify their current location. The map is detailed, with roads and terrain features.

Target group: Pupils and teachers at upper secondary level (grammar and vocational schools) aged 14 and over

Offer: Workshops including a competition for class and individual trips, online learning module and travel calculator

Would you like to address the topic of sustainability with your class using the specific example of travel? In our workshop (two to four lessons), we discuss needs while travelling, compare different means of transport in terms of their CO2 emissions and delve into our online content. In further training sessions, we show you how to use our digital learning module and the travel calculator for yourself.

What does this programme achieve?

Pupils, vocational school students and teachers actively shape society by travelling in a climate-friendly way and choosing and organising sustainable activities, catering and accommodation during their trips.

Specific benefits

Participants in the workshop…

…will become familiar with the learning module and travel calculator tools and know how they can travel more sustainably.

…will consciously reflect on their needs before travelling.

…will choose more climate-friendly means of transport for their trips.

…will take environmental and social criteria into account when choosing accommodation, meals and activities.

…will increase their travel locally and not view sustainable travel as a sacrifice.

Workshop leader discusses expectations of travelling with vocational school students.

Why am I travelling? Travel needs are compiled and discussed.

Pupils enter their trips on the computer and then analyse their CO2 emissions.

Comparison of CO2 emissions for different modes of transport.

Lucky group of winners of the travel competition

Illustration of a man holding a report with charts, including a downward-sloping graph. To the right, a mountain with a flag at the summit and a directional sign, all set against a light blue background.

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Young people today are faced with a dilemma: How can they satisfy their travelling needs and at the same time take responsibility for the environmental consequences? The aim of the Shape Your Trip educational programme is to help tackle this challenge and empower young adults to travel more sustainably without calling this cultural and social achievement into question.

In workshops, we get to the bottom of the questions of what pupils want from their holidays and how they can travel from A to B in a more climate-friendly way. Young people learn how to use the online tools created by myclimate to plan their holidays based on facts. These young people can submit their sustainable travel plans to our travel competition and win spending money for their trip at the same time.

Our digital learning module on sustainable travel is perfectly suited to self-study or blended learning (three to four 45-minute lessons). You can use and distribute the learning module freely. With the travel calculator, you can calculate and analyse the climate impact of your trip yourself.

LEARNING MODULE TRAVEL CALCULATOR

With the Shape Your Trip teacher training programme, we also provide teachers with the know-how to use the online module in their lessons.

With this educational offer, we inspire young people to actively reflect on their travel behaviour and at the same time take the climate into consideration.

I was really impacted seeing that aeroplanes are so much more harmful to the environment than other means of transport. The project is very attractive and is very relevant to the pupils’ current lives. It makes dealing with the topic of sustainability creative and fun.

Rebekka Dettwiler, general education teacher, Technische Berufsschule Zürich (Zurich Technical Vocational School)

2,068

pupils have taken part in workshops (2019–2023)

138

teachers have been reached through further training

760

young people have taken part in the travel competition

2‘000

people have used the online learning module and the travel calculator