ClimUP-Newsletter July 2023

You are interested in climate and environmental action? Stay tuned!

At the beginning of each month, the newsletter provides you with opportunities to climUP the campus and your life!

Every newsletter provides
a) events on campus to learn about sustainability,
b) opportunities to participate and bring forward your ideas on climate protection,
c) facts about interresting activities on campus, 
d) tips to make your routine more sustainable.

Current events
Current opportunities to participate
Activities on campus
Tip of the month
Contact information

GeoComPass e.v. invites you to the lecture "Heat, air pollution, infectious diseases  – What is heading towards us?".

Climate change does not only threaten our flora and fauna but impacts humans directly. Higher temperature and more humidity influence human well-being; changed precipitation, droughts, floods and easier spread of infections will arise as new challenges. The connections to health and well-being are clear. 

Prof. Dr. Elke Hertig (University Augsburg) will explain these correlations on Monday, 03 July, 2023 from 7 to 9pm in Audimax (AM), HS9 (Innstraße 31). The lecture is held in German.

More information

"Anthropocene" is the term for this hypothesis and the derived postulate to declare a new geological age for scientific and political reasons. The series talks about the changes made by humans and the scientific discussions around the term.

Prof. Dr. Christian Thies and Dr. Wobser invite you to the lectures series "Anthropocene", which takes places every Tuesday from 6:15pm to 7:45pm in lecture hall 2 (Philosophicum) and is held in German. Humans impact the planet so much that it will still be recognized in the geological future. 

The last lecture in July is
04 July, 2023 entitled "Making Sense of Glaciers – Zur Vermessung einer schmelzenden Welt" with Dr. Dominik Schrey (University of Passau). 

More information

The quality of life in a city majorly impacts its future development: It increases the connectivity and identification between the inhabitants and the city and elevates the attractiveness of the city. To get recognised, innovative concepts and smart solutions to current challenges are crucial. 

The presentation illustrates ideas of future urban development from students and researchers and invites you to discover the untapped potentials of Passau. The lecture is held in German on Friday, 07 July, 2023 from 5pm to 6:30pm at Ludwigstraße 8 (LU8, Access via Große Klingergasse 2a).

Register for participation via email to unilive-campus@uni-passau.de 

You are invited to the seminar series on climate change, which is supported by Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein as a presentative of Scientists for Future. Varying lecturers of the University of Passau will talk about topics such as the basics of climate change to civil unrest, following by an open discussion. The seminar takes place about every other week from 12:15 to 13:45 in WIWI SR034 and is held in German.

The date in July is
14 July, 2023 entitled "Handeln: Fallbeispiel und Exkursion Innwerk".

More information and other dates

As part of the Sustainability Weeks and der Bavarian Energy Days, the University will participate in the Handyaktion Bayern from 17 June to 16 July, 2023. We collect old phones, of which you might also still have some in your drawers, The devices will be properly recycled in cooperation with Telekom and the valuable primary resources will be put back into to loop. For every phone collected, Telekom donates 60 cents to eduction projects on Bavaria, West Africa and South America. Information about the resource mining, production and disposal of phones and the handyaktion can be found on the website of the Handyaktion Bayern.

Boxes for collection are located in the

• groud floor of the administration building (VW),
• copy room (NK 226) in the Nikolakloster (NK),
• counter of the Zentralbibliothek (ZB),
• counter of the library of the Wirtschaftswissenschaften building (Wiwi).

You can also send your old phones via internal post to Referat IX/1. In case of questions, please contact Angie Schüppel.

Two students of the Seminar "Education for Sustainable Development" by Prof. Dr. Eberth invite you to participate in their survey on trash disposal in Passau. 

Following interviews with experts in the local trash system, they are interested in your opinion as inhabitants of the City and District of Passau about the current disposal situation. They are looking forward to your participation in the survey.

Thanks for the support!

 Link to the survey 

On 17 July, 2023 from 11:30am to 2pm you get the chance to bring in your ideas and ask questions on how to climUP the campus!

Come by the NK Foyer!

To make sustainability and climate action more visible on campus, the Sustainability-Hub invites you to engage and act. We are founding the "Round Table Sustainability", a networking opportunity for the entire family of the University - especially the science support staff and students. We will meet regularly to exchange on the efforts and activities on campus.

The second meeting takes place on 24 July, 2023 from 4pm to 5:30pm in NK212 (Nikolakloster, Innnstraße 40, Teacher's room of DiLab) and presents the current status of sustainability and climate action on the campus. How are the building heated? Where does the stationary come from? What happens with the waste? Those questions will be answered and discussed. 

Please register on StudIP (Search RTN) or via Email to angie.schueppel@uni-passau.de.

This week, we want to introduce you to an activity in education. A group of students from differing backgrounds has committed to advocate the sustainable consumption of different food items. During the winter semester 2022/2023, they gathered information about the production processes of coffee, cocoa, avocado, paranuts and soy. This information was published online and can be accessed via a German website.

The project was set up in the course of the seminar "Kaffee, Kakao & Co: Wie nachhaltig sind Anbau und Konsum?“ and supervised by Prof. Dr. Schmitt.

Information can be found on the website

Waste separation in the office:

A lot of trash builds up in the office: paper, post-its, wrappers and banana peels. For proper recycling, it should be separated. The grey bins in the University's offices are for paper waste, the small, black plug-in units for residual waste. Please make sure to separate this correctly. The cleaning staff cannot re-sort due to safety concerns and eventually dumps everything into the residual waste, pullling valuable resources from the recycling process. Organic waste is best disposed of in the kitchens as the bins there are emptied daily.

 FIY: The best separation is avoidance of waste. Tips to reduce waste can be found on WIwiHow

National Climate Action Initiative

With the National Climate Action Initiative, the German Government has been initiating numerous projects since 2008 that contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Its programs and projects cover a broad spectrum of climate action activities: From the development of long-term strategies to specific support and investive funding measures. This variety is a guarantee for good ideas. The National Climate Action Initiative contributes to the local implementation of climate action activities. Consumers, companies, municipalities and eductional institutions have benefitted from the initiative.

V.i.S.d.P.: Universität Passau, Innstraße 41, 94032 Passau
Tel.: 0851/509-4116
In case of questions contact: angie.schueppel@uni-passau.de