Every field of education is addressed: from preschool to high-school, apprenticeships, advanced training, universities and extracurricular education including adult education/professional education. This also includes extracurricular forms of experience-based learning through experiments. Exchange between these areas and agents of economy and science, for example in learning partnerships between corporations and schools, is also encouraged.

Research is often conducted in exchange with education projects throughout Europe. Numerous media and educational materials have been developed in this way: a toolbox for sustainable economisation in corporations, didactic modules for adult education, movies, playful learning approaches for children, planning games and material collections. The Wuppertal Institute participates in roadmap processes on how to integrate sustainability topics into the education system. To this end, it participates in many networks and also initiates new networks.