The Chemistry & Energy Division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) supports the purchase of a fuel-cell car for use in your school lessons with up to 100 euros. On 17 September 2025, you have the opportunity to apply for financial support to help your pupils experimentally understand the connections between chemistry and renewable energy.
Conditions
- You are a teacher at a school in Germany. The initiative applies to all types of school and all year groups.
- The GDCh will reimburse one set per school up to a value of 100 euros. If the purchase costs are less than 100 euros, the invoiced amount will be reimbursed.
- The initiative is limited to 20 demonstration sets. A draw will be held among all applications received on 17 September 2025. Applications received before or after the deadline will not be considered.
- A prerequisite for reimbursement is a “proof photo” documenting the use of the Hydrocar in lessons, without showing people’s faces.
- You permit the GDCh to publish your name, the name of your school, the class and the photo on its website.
How can you obtain your demonstration set?
- Choose a set from any company.
- Please complete this Online form and submit it on 17 September 2025.
- You will receive confirmation by email if you are among the lucky 20 applicants who submitted the form on 17 September 2025 and were selected in the draw.
- Once reimbursement has been approved, you can purchase a Hydrocar from the manufacturer of your choice and use it in lessons at your school.
- Please send the following 3 files by email to Maike Fries:
-- combined in one PDF file: completed & signed form for reimbursement of expenses
and the invoice for the demonstration set,
-- photo demonstrating the use of the set in lessons (without identifiable faces),
-- completed consent declaration for data use. - Once all the required documents have been received, the GDCh will issue the reimbursement.
We wish you every success with your experimental lessons!
Yours
Board of the GDCh Chemistry & Energy Division
PS: Child-friendly models for the electrolysis of water into hydrogen and oxygen and the reconversion into electricity using a fuel cell can be found, for example, here or here.
