BMW Group UK Ltd, which has its headquarters in Farnborough, has launched new digital-learning resources to help teachers with a “hands-on approach to sustainability and road-safety lessons”.

Its free Virtual Lab app includes curriculum-linked lessons to show pupils aged 11 to 14 how sustainability and design ideas can help to reduce carbon footprints. The app features characters guiding pupils through road-safety scenarios in a Safe on the Streets programme.

Communications director Graham Biggs said: “Education is vital to building a sustainable future, and we are passionate about how digital apps can be used in the classroom to bring these subjects to life.

“We want students to gain a better understanding of future mobility and encourage them to look for imaginative solutions to some of the challenges society is facing.”

Created in co-operation with the Birmingham Science Centre, the Virtual Lab is the first educational app to be launched by BMW (www.bmweducation.co.uk/virtual-lab).