Education for resource preservation and efficiency: identifying and developing opportunities for all areas of education in Germany

The pressure on natural resources and raw materials is continuously rising. Especially advanced industrialised nations show a significantly high usage and, therefore, action is required. Building up awareness for an efficient and conservative use of resources is an important step to a more sensitized society. This paper introduces the research project “BilRess” which has the objective to develop a Roadmap to integrate education for resource efficiency and resource preservation in all areas of education as part of the German Resource Efficiency Programme “ProgRess”. Central aspects comprise the composition, structure and proceeding of the project as well as some methodical approaches and intermediate results of the ongoing research project.