Awareness Day 2.0 "It's Our Turn!" Lusatia in search of the future

On July 1, 2021, BTU hosted a day of action for "Awareness 2.0: Our Turn!" - Universities work with their students on sustainable solutions" took place.

The action days of the Association of German Scientists e.V. in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, the German Society CLUB OF ROME and the organizing universities offer spaces for thinking about the future. The action day focuses on the students: it is about their projects, views and ideas. In addition, the initiatives and projects that are actively shaping structural change in Lusatia will be shown and discussed. It is a great concern to ensure exchange and networking between students and experts from different disciplines and institutions. In this way, new networks are created and project ideas are initiated and implemented.

For an interesting exchange, exciting projects from teaching and research will present themselves in discussion rounds and at the market of opportunities.

Date: Thursday, July 1, 2021, 12:30 to 8 p.m.

We are looking forward to scientists like

  • Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hartmut Graßl, co-board chairperson of the VDW
  • Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg
  • Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, ETH Zurich
  • Prof. Dr. Christina Hansen, University of Passau
  • RA Dr. Klaus Schmid

and further guests from science, economy and politics.

Program

12: 30 Welcome

  • Prof. Dr. Gesine Grande, President of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hartmut Graßl, co-board chairperson of the Association of German Scientists
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Ortwin Renn, board chairperson of the sustainability advisory board of the state of Brandenburg

13:15 Presentation of the experts and the guests from science, politics and economy

13:45 Break

14:15 Students discuss with experts (Block 1)

Climate/Environment with RA Dr. Klaus Schmid and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hartmut Grassl

  • CO2 and our environment - development of a model for CO2 transport into the ocean
    Adrian Straub, Etienne Hiller, M.Sc.Tim Franken
  • The land potential and alternative energies of post-mining landscapes
    M.Eng. Eduard Völker
  • Strengthening local communities and ecosystems through PES-funded nature-based solutions
    Steven Kramm, Jan-Markus Homberger, Christopher Wittmann

Math/Computer Science/Digitization with Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid

  • Mathematics in and for Lusatia - from Enlightenment1.0 to Enlightenment2.0
    Jesse Beisegel, Sascha Zell, Fabian Gnegel, Johannes Schmidt, Robin Dee, Prof. Dr. Armin Fügenschuh
  • iCampus: Structural Change Projects for Sustainable Regional Development
    Sebastian Reiter, Bernhard Sebastian Brüggemann, Jonas Pantzer
  • IT-supported collective crisis training
    Maurizio Boigk, Profs. Lange, Hartmann, Glasauer

15:15 Moving break and networking

15:45 Students discuss with experts (Block 2)

Climate/Environment with Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Dr. Angelika Hilbeck

  • Sustainable Behavior on the Campus of the BTU

    Juliane Feist, Pablo Fernando Gonzales, Henrik Jessen, Robin Fernando Seitz, Luca Niclas Schulz, Steve Nemitz, Monica Villanueva, Dr. Christin Hoffmann

  • Sustainable Floating Settlements on the Water
    Dr. Thu Trang Nguyen
  • Use of fermented manure to support circular economy in organic farming
    Shahar Bankaryaparamban

Policy/Education with Prof. Dr. Christina Hansen

16.45 Networking

17:15 Keynote Speech Climate Protection - Structural Woundedness - and Enlightenment 2.0, Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

18:15 Lusatia in search of the future: Expert:inside Panel

Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hartmut Graßl, Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid,
Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, Prof. Dr. Christina Hansen, RA Dr. Klaus Schmid summarize the day
with BTU-Profs, students and Prof. Dr. Bartosch, moderation Sophia Wetzke

19:15 Closing keynote: With creativity, ambitious goals and scientific know-how: Prof. Dr. Grande

7:30 p.m. Using Physics to Save the Climate and Lusatia at the Same Time: MINT Lab & Re:construction

Market of opportunities

Climate/Environment

MINT

Politics/Education

Review

On 01 July 2021, the sixth Action Day2.0 took place with the motto "Enlightenment 2.0 "It's our turn!" Lusatia in search of the future" took place at BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg in digital format.

The action days of the Association of German Scientists e.V. in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, the German Society CLUB OF ROME and the organizing universities offer spaces for thinking about the future.

The Action Day2.0 on 01 July 2021 started with the opening speech of the President of BTU-Cottbus-Senftenberg Prof.in Dr. Gesine Grande, who warmly greeted all those present and thanked especially the students who presented your projects and ideas. The co-boardchairperson of the Association of German Scientists Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hartmut Graßl and the board chairperson of the sustainability advisory board of the state of Brandenburg Prof. Dr . Dr. Ortwin Renn welcomed all attendees and started the day with their opening remarks. Afterwards the mayor of the city of Senftenberg Andreas Fredrich and the mayor of the city of Cottbus Holger Kelch welcomed all present and thanked the students for the submitted projects. Following on from this, the VDW experts who met the students' projects on Action Day 2.0 and entered into an exchange with them were introduced.

The Minister for Economy, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, Dr. Manja Schüle, expressed her sincere thanks to the BTU for the event and her motivation to actively participate in the Enlightenment 2.0 in order to implement the innovative ideas and thoughts of the participating students. The former president of the BTU, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Steinbach, who is currently the Minister of Economics, Labor and Energy of the State of Brandenburg, also participated in the BTU's day of action with a word of greeting.

The round of introductions of the experts and the guests from science, politics and business was concluded with a welcome by Rüdiger Kuhn, Chairman of the Board of CEMEX Deutschland AG and member of the Sustainability Advisory Board of the State of Brandenburg, before the program moved on to "Students discuss with experts".

The students were the focus of the day. They presented their innovative ideas and projects and were then able to exchange ideas with the VDW experts. Numerous listeners and interested parties followed the presentations and discussions. In the small talk rounds that followed, there were exciting conversations and discussions with the VDW experts, students and visitors.

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Graßl and Dr. Klaus Schmid took part in the morning round as experts for the topics of climate and environment and gained insights into the project ideas CO2 and our environment, land potential and alternative energy of post-mining landscapes and PES-financed nature-based solutions in communities & ecosystems.

As an expert in the fields of Math, Computer Science and Digitalization, Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid participated in the interesting presentations of the project ideas by the students. In this expert round there were interesting presentations and discussions about Mathematics in Lusatia, the iCampus structural change project for sustainable regional development and the IT-supported collective crisis training.

In the afternoon round Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Dr. Angelika Hilbeck were guests at the topics climate and environment and listened together with the audience to interesting lectures on the topics sustainable behavior on the campus of the BTU and the use of fermented manure to support the circular economy in organic farming. The lectures were followed by exciting dialogues with the students.

Parallel to this, Prof. Dr. Christina Hansen took part as an expert in the presentations of the project ideas on the topics of education and politics. Here, insights were given into the project topics inventory and needs survey on the 17 SDGs in social service institutions, future perspectives of care and interdisciplinary against child poverty through a student tutoring project.

Accompanying the series of lectures, visitors:inside were able to explore the Market of Opportunities. Numerous other projects and initiatives presented themselves.

The evening program was opened by Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker with his keynote speech on the climate crisis and climate protection, structural change and Enlightenment2.0, followed by a Q&A session. Then it was on to the expert panel "Lusatia in search of the future", in which all VDW experts were able to summarize their impressions and sum up the day. The penultimate word was spoken by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bartosch, President of the University of Passau. Summing up the creativity, the ambitious goals and the scientific know-how of the students and the whole day, the president Prof. Dr. Grande ended the day and handed over the floor to the MINT-Laboratory of the BTU. The sixth Action Day2.0 ended with a festive conclusion on the topic of Saving the Climate and Lusatia at the Same Time with Physics.

The Action Day 2.0 at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg was a successful opportunity for an exchange of ideas and networking with experts and students and inspired new project ideas as well as starting points for future projects. We would like to thank all participants and contributors.

Centre for Continuing Education

Prof. Silke Michalk and Heike Bartholomäus