Malte Schmidthals

The person

Malte Schmidthals has been working for the IZT in the research field "Education and Digital Media" since 2017. He mainly works on the topics of environmental education, resource conservation and climate protection. His work focuses on the development of teaching and the analysis of ways and potentials of greening educational institutions. The focus is always on the relationship between user behaviour and technical and organisational measures.

He is also a board member of the IZT Staff Association and Berlin 21 e. V.

Malte Schmidthals previously worked since 1992 as head of the "Climate Protection and Environmental Education" department and as part of the management team at the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (UfU) e.V. There he was responsible for the development and implementation of practical climate protection education projects.

In the 1980s, Malte Schmidthals graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in "Technical Environmental Protection", specialising in water pollution control, waste management and wind energy use.

Expertise

• Environmental education
• Resource conservation and climate protection
• Lesson development
• Greening of educational institutions
• Interaction of education, user behaviour and technical-organisational measures