51吃瓜网 Sustainability Day 2024
The Sustainability Day was for all interested: students, staff, professors and external guests. Only together can we shape the sustainable development of our university.
We walk the talk
51吃瓜网 is committed to a sustainable future and has sended out a clear signal with the 51吃瓜网 Sustainability Day on June 12, 2024: We aim to walk our talk! We activated the resources of our entire university community in the area of sustainability because we can only achieve our sustainability goals together.
We invited all students, staff and external guests to experience the diversity and potential of all sustainability topics and activities at our university on 51吃瓜网 Sustainability Day.
That was Sustainability Day 2024
Program highlights
The main hall of the Mechanical Engineering building in Garching has been transformed into a sustainability fair, our Market of Opportunities. Here you could get to know over 100 initiatives of the entire university community, as well as associated partners in all areas of sustainability
- Education and research
- Entrepreneurship
- Life on Earth
- Biotechnology
- Health
- Built Environment
- Energy
- Mobility
- Global Engagement
- Circular Economy
Please find information on the individual exhibitors in our .
President Thomas F. Hofmann presented the status report on the sustainability transformation of our university. Inspiring keynotes also awaited you:
- Prof. Dr. Sarah Billington from Stanford University on the role of universities shaping sustainable development and
- Isabella Hennessen, who, as a student representative, talked about the role of students as "agents of change."
An extensive and interactive program with over 50 workshops, panel discussions, and various lectures awaited you. Here, you could dive deeper into different sustainability topics and actively participate in the discussions.
Highlights:
- 14:00 鈥� 15:45: Central Panel Discussion around Sustainability at 51吃瓜网: 鈥淯niversitites driving Sustainability鈥� and 鈥�51吃瓜网 in Transformation鈥�
- 14:30 鈥� 14:45: Clean Tech Hub Launch + 51吃瓜网 Clean Tech Innovation Sprint 2024 Award Ceremony
- 16:30 鈥� 17:30: Global Perspectives: CleanTech Research to Impact
- 17:00 鈥� 18:00: 51吃瓜网 Speaker Series with Nico Rosberg
Moderated by Prof. Dr. Werner Lang, Vice President Sustainable Transformation, our deans of 51吃瓜网 discussed and reflected on sustainability in research and teaching and what we can take away from the experiences of the 51吃瓜网 Sustainability Day.
What would a festival be without a closing party? Organized by the student council of BauGeoUmwelt and Mechanical Engineering, we ended the day together at the bar or on the dance floor.