Decarbon Days 2025 - Germany's new tech convention

Over three days, participants can exchange ideas with over 30 experts from science YouTube stars to MEPs and experience clean high-tech up close. Three days with different orientations address students, entrepreneurs, business and politics. The event is celebrating its premiere in Lusatia this year for good reason. Lusatia is currently the first region in the EU to become a "Net Zero Valley", a European quasi-special economic zone for clean energy and industrial technologies.

The Decarbon Days will kick off with the EU Summit "EU meets Net Zero Valley" on 26 June, which will bring together decision-makers from the EU, federal, state and regional levels. They will discuss the importance of innovative regions such as Net Zero Valleys for Germany's and the EU's path to new competitiveness and innovative strength. The evening will be hosted by MEP Dr Christian Ehler, with Kerstin Jorna, Director General of the European Union, and Brandenburg's Minister of Economic Affairs Daniel Keller among the panellists.

On 27 June, the Tech Festival will offer panels, workshops and more with speakers of national renown on the topic of cleantech in connection with the economy, start-ups and politics. The programme logic: The many opportunities in the innovative global growth market of cleantech will be followed by impulses for founding and growing and finally for the necessary political framework conditions. The award ceremony of the Female Energy Award powered by enviaM for female innovators in the fields of clean energy and industry as well as a broad supporting programme with drones, AI, VR, quizzes and other highlights will enrich the festival.

The festival will conclude with the transnational Talent Day on 28 June in cooperation with the University of Zielona Gora and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. With free admission, this day will focus on the internationalisation of the labour market, including job dating, a political talk and the final of the Climathon - an innovative contest on challenges in the field of cleantech - which is also being held for the first time.

The programme will be offered in three languages. The venue is a former aircraft hangar, exactly where the Lausitz Science Park, a research campus with international appeal, will be created in the coming decades. In future, the Decarbon Days will be established as an annual European platform for the topics of cleantech, start-ups and politics.

The strategic partner is the energy company LEAG.
The impact partner is Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI).
Vision partners are: Fraunhofer IEG, Z-U-G gGmbH, Enertrag SE and Energiequelle GmbH, Pro Lausitz e.V., WISTA Management GmbH, Lausitz Investor Center, MinGenTec network, Lausitz Science Park (LSP) and Energy Innovation Centre (EIZ) of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, EPP Group in the European Parliament and Boomtown Cottbus