Our new
partner school

The close cooperation between Impuls Schule Steyr and Kalkalpen National Park was officially sealed. Ursula Lammer, Head of Education at the school, and National Park Director Josef Forstinger signed the cooperation agreement.

Impuls Schule Steyr is an evangelical reformed day school for holistic learning for children and young people. Learning takes place in groups across school levels. Over the course of the past few years, the pupils have been intensively involved with Kalkalpen National Park . Workshops have been held and guided tours undertaken.

The partnership with the national park now opens up exciting opportunities. National park-related content is integrated into everyday school life and awareness of nature conservation is raised. Projects and excursions help to bring knowledge about the special features of Kalkalpen National Park to life in a practical way. An informative national park book package is available for the school library.

The pupils took part in the ceremony to mark the signing of the cooperation agreement with their own contributions. Pupils from the primary and secondary schools sang songs and an impressive text, written by the pupils themselves, was recited: "Silence before the storm - the experience of a leaf on a November day in the national park".

The national park presented itself with an information stand at the Impuls Schule Steyr open day. Ranger David Scheutz showed visitors the tracks of native wild animals. Children and adults were amazed at how well camouflaged the animals were, which were barely recognizable on the pictures they had brought with them.

In her speech, Ursula Lammer emphasized the importance of the school as a space for the development of the children entrusted to it. "Children are welcome as they are and not as we might wish them to be." In line with this, Kalkalpen National Park protects the development of nature as it really is and not as we imagine it to be.