Children spend around 200 days in school per year and 70% of that time is spent inside classrooms. 

Alongside the home, classrooms are one of the most important indoor environments for children - but are today's classrooms designed to stimulate learning and boost performance? 

Unfortunately not - too many children across Europe are working in classrooms with an inadequate supply of fresh air and daylight, as revealed in a recent study by the German research institute, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP. 

Coupled with new research from INSERM/UPMC (Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Disease (EPAR) Department, IPLESP), which has shown that academic performance can be boosted by up to 15% with more access daylight, we need to take action.

15%

rise in pupils’ performance in classrooms with larger windows - UPMC/INSERM (EPAR IPLESP)

6.7% - 9.5%

conditional economic growth of the country if there was an increase in school childrens’ performance by 2.8% -Fraunhofer IBP

3.7% - 5.7%

Daylight Factor was achieved at the Endrup School by installing roof windows

10 points

increase on the PISA score if taught in a good indoor climate.

10 PISA points

increase is equivalent to a GDP growth of 0.17 per cent due to higher productivity and profitability in a more well-educated population.

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