All activities focus on school projects reaching children and young people directly. Successful projects demonstrate the effectiveness of dealing with the built environment in school life. They encourage and are a signal to policy makers to offer all pupils an approach to architecture. School projects can be totally different, according to the needs of pupils, teachers and parents based as well on what the architects’ chambers can offer.

The easiest way is an architect visiting a school class and answering questions about architecture, urban or landscape planning, interior design or monument protection. Vice versa, pupils may join guided tours to offices and building sites. Some architects’ chambers have formed pools for easy contact between interested teachers and architects. Additionally, the architects’ chambers offer an exchange of experiences between the architects themselves. Another school project could also be construction work at a school. A pioneer in this respect is the architects’ chamber of North Rhine-Westphalia, which introduced its regular project “chamber-at-schools” (KidS) at different types of schools as early as 1991.

There are many more ideas for school projects including guided tours in the hometown or vicinity, supervised internships for pupils at architects’ offices or the involvement of architects as “non-formal” partners in afternoon lessons at all-day schools. The first project strongly supported by the state was “transform 2 r.a.u.m.” (transform 2 s.p.a.c.e.) run from September 2001 until November 2003 in Bavaria.