Tea Time Education on April 16, 2024 focused on the "Frei Day" ESD education concept, which has been introduced at various schools in Bonn. On "Frei Day", the subject matter for children and young people is Finding answers to self-selected questions about the future based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.

The pupils work on the causes of injustice, environmental destruction and climate change and join forces with other pupils, parents, initiatives or decision-makers in their projects.

The aim is to find solutions, develop skills for the future, leave a positive handprint and, in concrete terms, participate in processes such as the path to a climate-neutral Bonn by 2035.

Miriam Remy from "Schule in Aufbruch" first presented the innovative ESD initiative "Frei Day" in the context of the global UNESCO program "ESD for 2030", which provides for the involvement of schools in democratic processes and their further development into "real laboratories" for the burning issues of the 2030 Agenda.

Elena Link, a teacher at the Marienschule elementary school in Bonn, and Andreas Olsen, a teacher at the Fritz Bauer comprehensive school in St Augustin, reported on the practice of the "Free Day" at a primary and a secondary school. The results of the ongoing evaluation of "Frei Day" at the Fritz Bauer Comprehensive School were not yet available at the time of the Tea Time event. The Global Goal Summits carried out by the "Frei Day" classes at the comprehensive school had visibly developed well.

At the event, Elena Link from Mariengrundschule in Bonn and Andreas Olsen from Fritz-Bauer-Gesamtschule St. Augustin both made the offer that work shadowing would be welcome at their schools. Two representatives from the Janusz Korczak School in Much-Marienfeld, which has also introduced the "Frei Day", also expressed their interest in exchanges and the possibility of shadowing at their school.