nir-vana innovation network

Problem description: Sports classes in schools are usually scheduled once a week. Setting up all necessary equipment for a parcours or specific exercises takes sometimes half the time of the sports class. Even more effort from teachers’ side to include their pupils and communicate is needed, in elementary schools, schools with a high percentage of pupils with migration background, or education institutions that work with children with special needs, short: where oral communication is sometimes not sufficient. The startup from northern Germany developed in reconciliation with teachers, sports halls with all the typical equipment in miniature format. These sets of sports hall and equipment are 3D-printed (see pictures below). Experiences show that with support of these miniature model, pupils understand faster how they can help setting up all the equipment for specific exercises and parcours and additionally are more motivated by being able to participate. The startup already cooperates with more than 200 schools in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Further partners such as schools, sports clubs, inclusion initiatives etc. are sought for usage cooperation. The complementing App which is developed right now, generates a completely planned lesson plan specifically for the school, based on the sports hall equipment available in the school (sports equipment, field sizes, swimming pool use, etc.) and the applicable curriculum, as well as the pupils' abilities. This is particularly helpful for the increasing number of non-specialist physical education teachers, who have not acquired any subject-specific competence and thus often do not teach the actual curriculum. The App has a login and payment system which can be used by all school software providers. Schools have to configure all students, teachers and classes once and afterwards can use this configuration in all participating apps. This saves enormous organisational effort.