Focus on the future of sustainable land use
As part of the public event, the Land-Innovation-Lausitz (LIL) research alliance is focussing on the sustainable design of landscapes. More than 160 interested parties have registered to attend.
The two-day forum will focus on dialogue between stakeholders from agriculture, science, business, environmental protection, politics and civil society. Specific topics include the sustainable design of landscapes, the multiple use of land and the potential and limitations of regional recycling models. In addition to insights into current research in the LIL projects, possibilities for climate-adapted land use and prospects for a sustainable bioeconomy will be discussed. The natural and structural characteristics of Lusatia make the region an ideal real-life laboratory for land use innovations. The long-term goal is to establish Lusatia as a model region that can provide transferable solutions for climate-adapted land use and a sustainable bioeconomy.
BTU President Prof. Gesine Grande says" The FutureForum presents innovative solutions for sustainable land use here in Lusatia, but also in other regions around the world, to a broad audience. In the innovation areas of soil, plant material and digitalisation and sensor technology, scientific findings were gained and made usable for practical applications. Thematically closely linked to our 'Global Change and Transformation Processes' profile line, BTU's research, also in cooperation with ZALF, is helping to provide important impetus for the ecological intensification of agriculture, sustainability and the green and digital transformation."
Prof. Frank Ewert, LIL alliance spokesperson and Scientific Director of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF): "Lusatia is particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change due to its sandy and drought-prone soils and the worsening climate extremes. However, this makes it an ideal model region in which we can find answers today to challenges that many other regions around the world will face in the not too distant future. At the Lusatian Future Forum on Land Use, we therefore want to discuss possible solutions and the resulting opportunities for the region with experts and interested citizens."
The WIR! alliance Land-Innovation-Lausitz
The Land-Innovation-Lausitz (LIL) research alliance, consisting of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Leibnitz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V., together with its partner institutions, aims to bring together as many interest groups as possible for a constructive exchange. The Future Land Use Forum offers an ideal platform for this.
The aim of Land-Innovation-Lausitz (LIL) is to develop Lusatia into a model region for adapting land use to climate change with the help of innovative technologies and sustainable forms of utilisation on a bioeconomic basis. More than 60 partners from research, business, agriculture, politics and administration are currently working together to achieve this.
The research and development projects focus on the innovation areas of soil, plants and materials, the integration area of cultural landscape and the cross-sectional area of digitalisation and sensor technology. The project teams each come from science and practice and conduct research into resource-efficient cultivation systems, drought stress-resistant crops and bio-based plastics, among other things.
LIL is jointly managed by the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) and the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V. and is funded as part of the "Change through Innovation in the Region" (WIR!) programme of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Contact
Elke Thiele
Head of Science Communication
Coordination centre WIR! alliance "Land-Innovation-Lausitz" (LIL)
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e. V.
Phone: +49 (0) 33432 82 422
Email: elke.thiele(at)zalf.de
Web: www.land-innovation-lausitz.de
Press contact
Robin Jost
Communication and Marketing (Research PR and Online Communication)
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU)
Phone: +49 (0)355 69 3124
Email: robin.jost@b-tu.de
Web: www.b-tu.de
