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What will life be like in the future? 

If you think about your future and the future of the next generation, sooner or later you'll come across the buzzword "sustainability". It comes up time and time again whenever we’re discussing anything to do with preserving the environment, a functioning economy and social equality. Sustainability describes courses of action which help secure our quality of life in the long-term on a global scale.
Schools play a key role when it comes to raising awareness of social and ecological issues among the next generation.

Swisscom is committed to protecting the environment. The company has been running an effective environmental management programme since 1998. For example, we use fresh air to cool our data centres rather than deploying cooling systems which consume a large amount of electricity. We are also the largest purchaser of solar energy in Switzerland. What's more, we offer environmentally friendly products and services to our customers, e.g. the first solar-powered mobile phone and low-radiation cordless phones. 

In the sustainability dossier, you’ll find a whole host of ideas for lessons .

Everything you need to know about mobile phones for 10 to 15-year-olds

SWICO Recycling

The Foundation for Practical Environmental Protection Switzerland ("Pusch") has produced a dossier of lessons all about mobile phones on behalf of SWICO Recycling. The focus of the dossier is on raising pupils’ awareness of environmental issues and recycling. The 15 teaching modules with complete assignments and teacher’s notes chart the life of the mobile phone from sourcing raw materials to consumption and communication to proper disposal and recycling.
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Solidarcomm

By the way, the Solidarcomm campaign has been collecting used mobile phones since 2003 so they can be re-used in third world countries. The mobile phones are collected at Swisscom sales outlets. If you own mobile phones that are no longer needed, you can hand these in to the Swisscom Shop.
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Solar Impulse – making the unimaginable possible

The Solar Impulse project team headed by Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg is constructing an innovative solar plane that consumes very little energy: with the wingspan of a jumbo jet (64 metres), the weight of a medium-sized passenger car (1600 kg) and the power of a scooter (8 kilowatts), Piccard aims to fly round the earth in a solar-powered plane in 2012 without using any fuel at all. The project offers schools some great material for visionary presentations, discussions on solar energy, competitions and much more... 
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The Swisscom's contribution to Solar Impulse


Elementary Globe – An introduction to Planet Earth for secondary school pupils 

Elementary GLOBE comprises a lesson which consists of five modules. The subjects of weather, water, phenology, soil and the Earth as a system are introduced in a colourful and scientific picture book and each topic is accompanied by various teaching activities for the whole class.

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Protection of minors in the media and media competency

Effective protection of minors in the media is necessary in order for children and young people to learn how to use new media in the long term. Swisscom has compiled all the information that is available on this subject on the Internet so that parents and teachers can advise children on their media use. It is important to us that children learn how to use mobiles and the Internet properly.
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PUSCH – Practical environmental protection in Switzerland

Pusch teachers visit more than 2,500 school classes each year and teach children and young people about waste, water, energy, the climate and consumption.
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Films for the earth

The non-profit organisation „Filme für die Erde“ (Films for the earth) has a good range of environmental films available to order online either individually or as packages. And when you’ve finished with them, just pass them on to other teachers.
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Long-term apprenticeships

Some companies are only concerned about maximising profit – social responsibility is a foreign word to them ((Evtl. etwas heikle Formulierung. Normalerweise machen wir kein Competitor-Bashing…)). Not Swisscom. We train more than 800 young people every year to become media technicians, IT specialists, commercial assistants, retail specialists and telematics technicians. During their time at Swisscom, apprentices choose the projects that interest them and will further their career - an exciting training concept for independent young people...
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