Regarding the positive experiences and the valuable increase in knowledge and competences students may get while working on a Facharbeit it is desirable to reduce the occurring problems. Especially concerning future energy issues it would be good to support students’ works in this field. Students show great interest in these topics, but the difficulties and problems they would meet, often keep them away from doing such a work.

Out of our experiences we students have a list of wishes to get the help we need for writing our Facharbeit.

First we need help by the search of an adequate topic out of the field of renewable energies to work on. Sometimes students have to realise when working on their chosen topic, that they cannot manage their work, as they have not got the necessary knowledge basis or because the theme is so extensive that it cannot be dealt with in time.

Furthermore we need help to get the literature which is necessary to write our Facharbeit. It would be wonderful if there would be an internet portal with a list of possible topics for a Facharbeit, as well as a list of literature to each topic.

There should also exist an extensive reliable data base with key search possibility for the field of future energies, but restricted on sources that are understandable for us as students. All this literature should be available in a short time and without great costs. The best would probably be, if students could order the literature by internet, perhaps as pdf — files.

The very best would be if students could have the chance to speak with an expert about their work in order to get actual and reliable information, but also to discuss about own ideas. I myself have the luck that my father knows a lot about future energy because he himself works in this area, and that I can use his contacts to other experts. But there are only very few students who have an expert on the side to help. There are no contact lines to experts and so the students don’t know whom to ask.

Also the teachers who guide such a Facharbeit and want to inform themselves in order to give their students better help, do not know whom to address. There should exist contact addresses for schools, preferably at universities as here the most independent experts can be found.[47]

So we hope that we can get more help to write such a work in the future, to have the possibility to ask experts and to get all information which could be useful. This would be a great help for both students and teacher. If this would be realized for topics out of the area of future energies, it would increase young peoples’ knowledge in this field, the consciousness of problems the human society is having in near future, but also the willingness to deal with it.

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