On January 28, Thomas Janßen presented his project: Using easy-to-install traffic counters, students and, in the future, schoolchildren will be able to record how much traffic passes through their street, how fast it is traveling, and how people are getting around. This quickly makes statistical questions socially relevant—how can it be that half of the cars in a 30 km/h zone are speeding? Why do more or fewer people use bicycles?

The audience and jury liked the idea so much that this project is now one of ten being funded by the University of Bremen Foundation and can be implemented in the summer semester of 2026.