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Climate Agency Meets Physics Education: TRACE at GIREP 2026
The TRACE project was presented at the international GIREP 2026 Conference in Crete. As a conference devoted to research in Physics Education, GIREP provided a particularly meaningful setting in which to reflect on the role of science education in the climate crisis. The presentation introduced the project as a whole, with particular attention to the…
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Tracing TRACE #1: How Effective Are Climate Policies? It Depends.
Picture: OECD (2025), The effects of climate policies on emissions – evidence from a comprehensive and systematic review of the ex-post empirical literature, Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches Papers, OECD Publishing, Paris. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ We are currently developing a self-reflection tool for students at TRACE. On the one hand, this…
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TRACE at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna
At the EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna, the TRACE team presented first conceptual ideas of the project in the form of a poster. Among other aspects, the poster introduced the general idea of the project as well as initial approaches of the TRACE Self-Reflection Tool, which aims to make different forms of individual and…
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From DPG 2026 to TRACE: Climate Education Between Knowledge and Agency
In March 2026, the TRACE project was represented at the spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) in Dresden—one of Europe’s largest physics conferences, attracting several thousand participants. The conference provided an important international platform for discussing and contextualizing current developments in physics education, particularly in the field of climate education. A highlight was…
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The TRACE logo – what is it about?
We warmly welcome you to the TRACE project and would like to introduce you to our TRACE logo. But you may be wondering: what does this logo actually represent? With the TRACE logo, we want to draw attention to two things: the “twisty” paths of transformative agency in climate education, and the possible and varying…
