DO it NOW - Sustainability Week 15-21.06.2024
From June 15th - 21st, the sustainability week will take place with lots of exciting activities around the topic of sustainability. Not only the environment will be in focus during this week, but also social sustainability. During this week you will have the opportunity to meet sustainability actors from TU Dresden and the city of Dresden on campus and online.
Opening of the Sustainability Week, the Get involved - car free campus on 17th June 2024, 2 p.m. in the courtyard of the Fritz-Foerster-Bau. The Local Agenda and Actors of Sustainability are expected at the TUD.
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Program
Continuing programme
Location: Mommsenstraße
Organizer: Dr. Christin Baumgärtel, Chair of General Microbiology
What are bacteria? How can a single-celled organism become a multicellular organism? What is a biofilm? Why are microbes important?
Discover the fascinating world of microbes in the traveling exhibition "Bakteriopolis"! It will be on display on Mommsenstraße as part of the Sustainability Week.
Bacteria and microbes are essential for the sustainable preservation of ecosystems. They also play an important role in agriculture, waste management and environmentally friendly product production.
The exhibition offers interactive stations for visitors of all ages, from experiments to arts-and-crafts activities, the microbial world can be experienced by everyone. "Bakteriopolis" promotes participatory research and makes complex concepts easily accessible.
Come and immerse yourself in the hidden world of bacteria!
You can find more information on Instagram @bakteriopolis or here
Parallel to the Sustainability Week, the hands-on festival will take place on Mommsenstraße in front of the Alte Mensa from Wednesday to Friday, organized by the TU Environmental Initiative (tuuwi). To show what a lively campus without cars can look like, the area in front of the Alte Mensa will be filled with a variety of art, music and sports activities and will be temporarily greened.
Have you never ridden a cargo bike before and/or would you like to try out our tuuwi cargo bike model? Then you can test ride the cargo bike every day of the hands-on festival from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p. m. You are welcome to borrow it for a test ride!
You can find out more on the tuuwi website.
15.06.2024 (Saturday)
Location: Square in front of the KiEZ and the Prohliszentrum
Together with Zuhause in Prohlis e. V., the TUD invites people of all ages to a summer festival full of interaction, music and fun. The hands-on festival will be a place for exchange on social issues and encounters with science. Playful and participative formats invite visitors to engage with the question of how we want to live together as a society and to reflect on the fundamental values of our society.
Further information will follow.
17.06.2024 (Monday)
Location: Fritz-Förster-Bau/ room102
Get into conversation over a coffee. All stakeholders and interested parties in the field of sustainability are welcome at the Sustainable Coffee Hour. Here you can find out what is happening in terms of sustainability and who is involved where and how. Some stakeholders will introduce themselves in short pitches.
Organizer: Green Office
Registration: https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/nachhaltigkeit/mitmachen/veranstaltungen/nachhaltigkeitswoche/anmeldung-nachhaltigkeitswoche
Location: Campus Dresden
Interdisciplinary BNE teaching units on ocean acidification and sea level rise were developed as part of state examination theses and can be carried out as a project day at TU Dresden. As these are projects from physics didactics, the focus will be on the physical aspects. However, social aspects of environmental problems will also be highlighted. We are particularly interested in the extent to which students' creative and critical thinking can be promoted through the teaching units on climate change.
Registration by email: and
Organizer: School contact point
Location: Campus Dresden
Interdisciplinary BNE teaching units on ocean acidification and sea level rise were developed as part of state examination theses and can be carried out as a project day at TU Dresden. As these are projects from physics didactics, the focus will be on the physical aspects. However, social aspects of environmental problems will also be highlighted. We are particularly interested in the extent to which students' creative and critical thinking can be promoted through the teaching units on climate change.
Registration by email: and
Organizer: School contact point
Location: to be announced
Speakers: Gerlinde L. Behnke
Because sustainability also includes the sustainability of human relationships:
Taster course and some background information on non-violent communication according to Rosenberg (NVC)
We have learned a certain way of dealing with other opinions at home and in our environment: Withdraw, blurt out, attack is the best oath or seek compromise etc....
NVC takes a different approach. With NVC you can learn to pay attention to what is really important to you / what you can stand by. On the other hand, you can also learn to find out what is important to the other person, even if he/she expresses him/herself in a completely different way. ("I hear something you don't say").
NVC requires courage. It is a way of life rather than just a communication method. And certainly not a soft-spoken one.
In two separate sessions of 1.5 - 2 hours each, you will hear a little background on NVC and then practise seeing the world differently and practising reacting to it differently. Because:
"Not the environment, not heredity, but the personal response is ultimately the deciding factor in our lives. And here lies our responsibility!" - Martin Luther King
Registration: https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/nachhaltigkeit/mitmachen/veranstaltungen/nachhaltigkeitswoche/anmeldung-nachhaltigkeitswoche
18.06.2024 (Tuesday)
Location: StuRa-Barracke
Organizer: Directorate 4/ Green Office
Registration: https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/nachhaltigkeit/mitmachen/veranstaltungen/nachhaltigkeitswoche/anmeldung-nachhaltigkeitswoche
Place: Inner courtyard of the Fritz-Förster-Bau
Organizer: Writing Center
Place: Hülssehof
Are you in the mood for plants? The Plants and Care working group has been active again since the winter semester 2023 and is offering a workshop on pruning during the Sustainability Week. In this workshop, participants will not only learn the basics of professional pruning, but also the ecological importance of this practice for plant health and the environment. If you are interested, come along!
You can find more information about the Working group Plants and Care here or in the Opal course.
Do you know what "Cradle to Cradle" means? In this presentation by Sophie Hilpert, Head of Building Alliance C2C NGO, learn how this visionary model enables a sustainable future by considering products as valuable resources in a circular economy from start to finish.
Place: courtyard in front of Fritz-Förster-Bau
Organizer: GFF
You can find more Information about the STEM Scholarship here.
Location: Makerspace of the SLUB (Drehpunct, Zellescher Weg 17)
Organizer:in: Green Office, SLUB
If a household appliance no longer works or sewing work is needed, a visit to the RepairCafé on campus can help. This self-help workshop helps visitors to hopefully get their broken appliance back in working order under the guidance of tech-savvy volunteers.
The next RepairCafé will take place on the campus on June 18th at 5:00 and 7:30 pm. Anyone who would like free support and advice on repairs is welcome. This RepairCafé takes place as part of the regular repair events, which are held every 3rd Tuesday of the month in the SLUB Makerspace in the Drepunct Library (Zellescher Weg 17). Not only the volunteers of the RepairCafé Dresden/ Freital initiative provide support, but also SLUB staff with knowledge and equipment ranging from 3D printers to sewing machines.
In addition to repairing things, the focus is also on the café character. Visitors to the RepairCafé will be able to talk to each other over coffee and cake.
Registration: https: //tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/umwelt-und-klima/greenoffice/anmeldung-repaircafe
Location: Fritz-Förster-Bau inner courtyard
Climate change as a challenge and opportunity for social cohesion
Climate change has long been scientifically proven and is on many national agendas, and yet there are sceptics - voices that deny it or instrumentalize it politically. Recently, groups have been using the issue to push their agenda and stir up public opinion. They are defiant and even hateful towards people who are campaigning for a rethink. Climate change can be seen as one of the biggest challenges for social cohesion and at the same time as the unifying element, as we are all affected by the effects of climate change.
What can we do to stop climate change? How will my own life and health be affected by climate change? Can we still do something about climate change? What forms of climate change denial are there and how are far-right actors increasingly mobilizing against climate policy? Is the current debate even an opportunity to come together? How can this succeed?
We want to explore these and many other questions as part of the TUD Lectures PLUS "Social Cohesion" on May 16 in Bautzen. Dr. Manès Weisskircher, Head of the BMBF junior research group REXKLIMA, Prof. Matthias Mauder, Chair of Meteorology, and Alice Freiberg, Head of the Research Unit of Occupational, Social and Environmental Epidemiology at the Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, will answer questions from the audience. The event will be moderated by Prof. Moritz Ingwersen, Junior Professor of North American Literature with a focus on future studies.
Speakers: Prof. Matthias Mauder, Chair of Meteorology, Dr. Manès Weisskircher is head of the BMBF junior research group REXKLIMA (Right-wing extremism versus climate action?) at the Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden and Dr. rer. medic. Alice Freiberg, head of the research area of occupational/social/environmental epidemiology. She works at the Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine at TU Dresden.
Moderation: Junior Professorship Dr. Moritz Ingwersen, Junior Professorship in North American Literature with a Focus on Future Studies
Organizer: Directorate 9
19.06.2024 (Wednesday)
Place: Binder-meadow
Discover the connection between yoga and sustainability! In a relaxed atmosphere, we will practise yoga exercises that not only strengthen the body and mind, but also raise awareness of the environment and sustainability. Come along to relax, recharge your batteries and do something for our environment at the same time.
Place: Meadow next to Binder-Bau
Organizer: TUTORING-Team
Location: Mommsenstraße
Organizer: Geographical Education
Location: Meadow next to Binder-Bau
Speakers: Gerlinde L. Behnke
Because sustainability also includes the sustainability of human relationships:
Taster course and some background information on non-violent communication according to Rosenberg (NVC)
We have learned a certain way of dealing with other opinions at home and in our environment: Withdraw, blurt out, attack is the best oath or seek compromise etc....
NVC takes a different approach. With NVC you can learn to pay attention to what is really important to you / what you can stand by. On the other hand, you can also learn to find out what is important to the other person, even if he/she expresses him/herself in a completely different way. ("I hear something you don't say").
NVC requires courage. It is a way of life rather than just a communication method. And certainly not a soft-spoken one.
In two separate sessions of 1.5 - 2 hours each, you will hear a little background on NVC and then practise seeing the world differently and practising reacting to it differently. Because:
"Not the environment, not heredity, but the personal response is the ultimate determining factor in our lives. And here lies our responsibility!" - Martin Luther King
Registration: https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/nachhaltigkeit/mitmachen/veranstaltungen/nachhaltigkeitswoche/anmeldung-nachhaltigkeitswoche
20.06.2024 (Thursday)
Location: Mommsenstr. in front of the Alte Mensa
Gourmets watch out! If you want to start the morning with a relaxed breakfast and get into conversation with stakeholders in the fields of education, nutrition or sustainability at TU Dresden, the cozy and free sustainability breakfast on June 20 between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on Mommsenstraße in front of the Alte Mensa is the right place for you.
What should the education of the future look like? Let's develop a vision together. Everyone is welcome. The teaching kitchen will be providing refreshments and you can make your own smoothie using leg power on the smoothie wheel. Try it out!
Here you can get in touch with:
- Teaching kitchen of the TU Dresden
- Center for Continuing Education (ZfW)
- ZLSB
- ZiLL
- Green Office
- Foodsharing
- Global Citizenship Certificate
You can register here, but you are also welcome to drop by spontaneously, because whether you are a student, employee or guest - there is something for everyone!
Location: Campusbüro mit Kind, Nürnberger Straße 31A
Yawning emptiness in your closet? Or is it bursting at its seams?
Either way, we can help! On Thursday our second children's clothes swap fair will take place as part of TU Dresden's Sustainability Week. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the children's clothes carousel will be spinning in the "Uni mit Kind" campus office. Children's clothes and toys in good condition can be brought along and swapped. Even those who don't (yet) have anything to swap and just want to come and browse are very welcome. In addition to children's clothes and toys on the swap tables, there will be coffee, tea and cake. Tables will be provided by us.
The children's clothes swap is free of charge and no registration is required. Questions can be directed to campusbuero@studentenwerk-dresden or 0351 463 32666.
Location: Mommsenstraße
Location: Mommsenstraße
The hands-on station is an open workshop format and the mobile version of a plastics recycling workshop. The aim is to inspire people to recycle plastics without a great deal of background knowledge and to relate to the environmental problem by doing it themselves. At various stations, participants learn how plastics are recycled and produced and what to look out for. The participants are supervised at each station and introduced to plastics recycling and how to use the machines. The highlight is that everyone can take a recycled product home with them at the end.
Organizer: Kunststoffschmiede
21.06.2024 (Friday)
Location: HSZ/301
Every household has different shopping habits, some go shopping daily, others weekly. But how sensible is it to stock up on food? How and, above all, where do you store different foods so that they stay fresh and edible for as long as possible? In what ways can food be preserved? How can I provide for myself if the power goes out for a long time and what does sustainability actually have to do with food security? These and other questions will be answered in the interactive workshop.
Organizer: Consumer advice center
Registration: https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/nachhaltigkeit/mitmachen/veranstaltungen/nachhaltigkeitswoche/anmeldung-nachhaltigkeitswoche
Place: HSZ-Wiese
Organizer: Kino im Kasten
Contact
Postal address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology Dezernat 9 Alexandra Seifert
01062 Dresden