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April 14th, 2023

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Huge demand for packaging made of thermal-insulated waste paper

If you’ve ever had to ship refrigerated food or medication, you’ll know all about this environmental dilemma – standard packaging made from polystyrene or plastic is notoriously difficult to recycle. It’s usually incinerated after use. But insulated material developed at TU Dresden, together with the Munich company easy2cool, is sustainable, award-winning, and increasingly popular.

» About the project

Design tool for automatic planning of smart buildings

Energy efficiency is a key criteria for anyone building a house nowadays. If house functions run automatically, it is possible to save as much as 30 percent of energy. A tool developed at TU Dresden assists developers and craftspeople in creating designs that meet this goal.

» About the project

Sustainability in teaching is not just an environmental issue

Alexandra Seifert is the coordinator of the "Green Office" at TU Dresden. In this interview, she explains further about sustainability in teaching, and presents TU Dresden's participation in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of Agenda 2030.

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Award-winning: Using plastic flakes to create sustainable roads

TUD-Alumni Maximilian Redwitz and Emil Weber are working together in a startup that won a 2022 Award. Their concept: Sustainable asphalt.

» About the idea

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“I’ve always enjoyed construction”

Maximilian Hansen took seven years to study architecture because he was working at the same time. The experience still helps him today. While he worked on the Sagrada Familia as a student and created a conservation concept for a Persian temple complex for his thesis, he is now focusing on sustainable trade show construction, event equipment and paper architecture with his own company.

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Researching, designing and implementing sustainable and livable cities

Wiebke Klemm has always felt an affinity for nature and the landscape. But she also wanted to be creative, and positively influence people’s living space. For the past 20 years, the landscape architect with a PhD has been working and living in the Netherlands, and has won numerous awards - most recently first prize in the “Steenbreektrofee 2022” alongside her colleagues for the Nature Smart Cities Project Wijkpark Cromvliet in The Hague.

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Seeds sprout more easily with today's youth

Anyone wishing to meet Kai Andersch in person in his home country will have to be patient. The forestry scientist spends many months a year traveling around the world. He is currently preparing an expedition to Lima to protect ancient Peruvian forests. "Kontakt-online" interviewed him via video conference between two flights in South America about his motivation, his career, Tarzan, and his relationship with TU Dresden.

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TUD Job Portal: Search and Find

Did you know that many employers are specifically on the search for TUD alumni? On the TUD job portal you will find a variety of offers where companies/authorities are looking for you. Or are you an employer yourself looking for our TUD alumni? As a network member you have the opportunity to advertise for free (while supplies last) on the job portal.

» To the job portal

Working at TU Dresden

We offer positions for alumni as well as for interns and new graduates. Just click and find.

» To the offers

Santander Scholarships Skills

TU Dresden has been a member of Santander Universities. This has enabled the university to benefit from a wide range of funding opportunities, continuing education courses for TUD alumni, too.

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From TUD-TV

Potatoes, tomatoes or watercress: Students of vocational education learn how to grow vegetables sustainably on the Campusacker in the Botanical Garden of TU Dresden. Jun.-Prof. Jana Markert explains why "Education for Sustainable Development" is so important.

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KONTAKT-ONLINE

Projects Presented

Huge demand for packaging made of thermal-insulated waste paper

Design tool for automatic planning of smart buildings

Sustainability in teaching is not just an environmental issue

Award-winning: Using plastic flakes to create sustainable roads

Alumni Presented

“I’ve always enjoyed construction”

Researching, designing and implementing sustainable and livable cities

Seeds sprout more easily with today's youth

This and That

TUD Job Portal: Search and Find

Working at TU Dresden

Santander Scholarships Skills

From TUD-TV

Visit us on LinkedIn too

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