Lecture series "Digital Sustainability Transformation of, by and for the TUM"
Content
The virtual lecture series focuses on two central challenges of our time - digitalization & sustainability.
The basic idea of the event is to shed more light on both transformation processes and in particular to address the mutual opportunities and potentials, but also risks and problems. The specific focus of the event will be on the areas of universities and education. The focus here is always on the question of how can TUM promote, investigate and put into practice sustainable digitalization or digital sustainability.
Structure
The lecture series takes place in the summer term 2021 online always Mondays, from 6:30pm – 8pm. All events are open TUM-wide and accessible for the broader public interested in the topics of digitalization, sustainability and higher education. Talks and discussions will be in English. Please, access the webinars via this link:
- Zoom-Link: https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/64468501789
- Password: digisusTUM
All sessions will be recorded and made available via the Youtube channel of the Bavarian School of Public Policy.
Our Experts
Lara Lütke-Spatz works at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and is Managing Director of the Hochschule & Nachhaltigkeit Bayern Network. Here, Lara coordinates and connects university and societal actors on topics related to sustainability and sustainable transformation. Her expertise lies in the fields of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), university governance towards sustainability and sustainability leadership.
Miranda Schreurs is Professor of Environmental and Climate Policy at the Technical University of Munich. Her research focuses on a wide range of issues relating to sustainable environmental, climate and energy policies. Miranda is, inter alia, Deputy Chair of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Council and Co-Chair of the Bundestag Commission on the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste. At TUM, she heads the Sustainability Task Force.
Roundtable discussion
The path to a sustainable university: What is being done? What are the next steps?
Our Experts
Florian Rampelt is Deputy Head of the Office of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung and Managing Director of the AI Campus at the Stifterverband. In the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, he works in the field of peer-to-peer strategy consulting and the European activities of the Hochschulforum. With the AI Campus, Florian Rampelt is actively involved in building a learning platform for artificial intelligence in close collaboration with several partner institution.
Talk and discussion
Future Skills, Empowerment and Openness as Key Drivers of Sustainable Digitalisation in Higher Education
Our Experts
Christian Felber, is a pioneer and initiator of the project Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie (economy for the common good. Since 2019 he is Senior Fellow at the IASS Potsdam. His book Gemeinwohlökonomie (Piper 2018) made it to the Spiegel bestseller list for non-fiction books in 2021. With his ideas and approaches, Christian Felber wants to promote an ethical market economy that aims less at the profit of the individual and more at the added value for the common good.
Talk and discussion
Economy for the common good: An economic model with future with particular regard to digitalization
Our Experts
Isabel Gomez works in Communications and PR at Cradle to Cradle NGO, a Berlin-based nonprofit organization that wants to establish Cradle to Cradle as an approach towards true sustainability and resource protection in our society. Before that, Isabel was a business and finance journalist for ten years.
Talk and discussion
Cradle to Cradle – a holistic approach to circular economy
Workshop
Zoom-Meeting: https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/61928910752
Meeting-ID: 619 2891 0752
Kenncode: digisusTUM
Our Experts
Marie Blachetta works as a speaker for Corporate Digital Responsibility at Initiative D21 e.v. She is the editorial manager of the Online-Magazin Corporate Digital Responsibility, project leader of the Digital Future Challenge and passionate to establish more awareness about CDR in organizations and society at large.
Jens-Rainer Jänig is founder and managing partner of mc-quadrat which consults and serves large enterprises and public institutions in internal and external corporate communication. He is also board member of Initiative D21 e.V., Germanys largest non-profit network for the digital society. He is a Corporate Digital Responsibility-enthusiast since 2015 and since 2020 editor of the Online-Magazine Corporate Digital Responsibility.
Talk and discussion
Corporate digital responsibility in the context of universities
Our Experts
Dr. Thorsten Schulz is deputy chairman, science manager and lecturer at the Chair for Preventive Pediatrics (TUM). The main topics of his research are strategies for and outcome of preventive actions (especially in children and youth). As a lecturer, he teaches ‘anatomy and physiology’, as well as the fields of ‘prevention and health promotion’, especially through physical exercise. Through his efforts for a systematic students’ health management system, TUM4Health has been developed and established under his leadership in 2017.
Barbara Reiner is a sport and health scientist. She is working as Scientific Research Assistant at the Institute of Preventive Pediatrics. She did her doctorate in the field of preventive screenings of children and young adults with congenital heart disease specialized in cardiovascular health, sport motor skills and health-related quality of life. Since 2017 she has been involved in the development and implementation of TUM’s students health management and is part of TUM4Health.
Nils Olsonis a sport scientist, a former trainer and sport therapist. At TUM he is working as a Scientific Research Assistant at the Institute of Preventive Pediatrics in the field of physical and mental health among students. He is awarding a doctorate at TUM, analyzing the health related impacts of studying/universities. Since 2019 he is working for TUM4Health.
Talk and discussion
Potentials and risks: health related issues among students. How digital semesters influence the students’ study-(work-)life-balance – implications from the Corona crisis
During the discussion, Kirsten Bannert and Marein Orre from the TUM Center for Study and Teaching will present the TUM4Mind project, which focuses on the mental health of students and provides concrete offers for TUM students.
Especially in times of Corona and digital learning, the realization for students that they are not alone with their worries and problems is particularly valuable and helpful. For this reason, TUM4Mind offers not only interactive lectures by experts, but also time for exchange of ideas and information.
Our Experts
Claudia Peus is Professor of Research and Science Management at the Technical University of Munich and has been Founding Director of the TUM Institute for Life Long Learning (TUM IL3). Her research focuses on questions of leadership and leadership development in the digital age, the management of research organizations and diversity in organizations. She is a member of various advisory boards such as the Board of Trustees of the Wertekommission (Value Comission) and advises organisations from business and science on topics such as leadership, diversity and talent management. In 2020, Peus was named one of „Germany’s Most Inspiring Women“. Since October 2017, she serves as Vice President for Talent Management and Diversity at the TUM.
Eva Sandmann is a research associate at the Chair of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS). In research and teaching, she focuses on topics relating to ethics and responsibility in relation to science and technology. Since 2008, she has been gender equality officer for TUM’s Stabstelle Chancengleichheit (Equal Opportunities Office).
Roundtable discussion
What about diversity and gender equality at universities like TUM?
Our Expert
Thomas Auer is Professor for Building Technology and Climate Friendly Construction at TU Munich. In research and teaching, he deals with holistic building optimisation, taking into account future developments with regard to the European Union’s sustainability goals. The focus is on energy efficiency and its influence on the built environment, in particular in the scaling of the building (form, materiality, technology) as well as in the scaling of the district / city (urban form, infrastructure, etc.).
Presentation and discussion
Roadmap for the decarbonization of the university
Our Experts
Andreas Wanke worked from 1990-2001 as a political scientist at the Environmental Policy Research Centre (Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik) at Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2001 he has been working as coordinator for energy and environmental management of the university. Since 2015 he is head of the Sustainability and Energy Management Unit, which manages and implements the university´s commitment to sustainability in research, teaching and on campus. The unit is assigned directly to the Executive Board of FU Berlin.
Talk and discussion
Freie Universität Berlin on the way towards climate neutrality: experiences and strategic options
Our Experts
Monika Egerer is professor for Urban Productive Ecosystems at the Technical University of Munich. She is the project leader of the research project “Bienen, Bestäubung und Bürgerwissenschaft", associate editor of the Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems specialty section "Urban Agriculture“, and passionate to establish more action around biodiversity conservation and sustainable food systems in cities and society at large.
Ferdinand Ludwig is professor for Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture at Technical University of Munich TUM since 2017. He is an interdisciplinary researcher and designer in the field of living architecture, leading Research Group Baubotanik at TUM.
Talk & discussion
Greening the city: ecology, design, and participation
Our Experts
Tobias Michl is a Sustainability Officer and Head of the Sustainability Office at TU Munich. In this function, he is responsible for the coordination, initiation and networking of sustainability activities at TUM.
Yasmin Djabarian is a programme manager at the Stifterverband and the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung. Her work focuses on aspects of digitally supported teaching, student participation and innovation processes at universities. She is in the coordinator team of the network for university teaching and contact person for the student Zukunfts-AG DigitalChangeMaker.
Stefan Ramesohl is co-head of the Digital Transformation and Circular Economy research unit at the Wuppertal Institute. Together with Kerstin Fritzsche, he also heads the CO:DINA, an inter- and transdisciplinary network that aims to put digital transformation at the service of socio-ecological change. His research focuses on including questions about the opportunities and challenges of digitalization for socio-ecological and industrial transformation processes as well as the design and governance of sustainable digitalization through innovation management.
Roundtable discussion
What does a digital AND sustainable future of universities look like?