Program
Table of contents
Thursday, November 06, 2025
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10:00-10:30 |
Welcome address Mayor of Zittau Thomas Zenker Rector HSZG Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch Location: Zittau town hall |
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10:30-12:00 |
Keynote: Transformation as an aspiration? On the relationship between science and society Location: Town Hall Zittau |
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch break |
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13:00-14:30 |
Panel 1: Lusatia as a real laboratory? - Possibilities and limits of transdisciplinary and transformative research Location: 1.01 in House Z IV Panel 2: Transdisciplinary and cooperative knowledge: transformation processes and everyday practices Location: 1.02 in house Z IV |
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14:30-15:00 |
Coffee break Location: Foyer conference rooms house Z IV, HSZG |
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15:00-16:30 |
Panel 3: Knowledge Stuck at the Border? Transnational Cooperation versus National Conflicts over (the Future of) Coal Mining in the 'Black Triangle' Location: 1.01 in House Z IV Panel 4: Governance of regional transformation processes - challenges for science and politics Location: 1.02 in House Z IV |
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16:30-17:00 |
Coffee break Location: Foyer Conference Rooms House Z IV, HSZG |
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17:00-18:30 |
Panel 5: Lusatia as a science region: Science between regional development and international competition Location: 1.01 in House Z IV Panel 6: Post-socialist transformation - fatigue or competence? Location: 1.02 in House Z IV |
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Dinner together |
Friday, November 07, 2025
| 09:00-11:00 |
Excursions: a) Transformation of the energy region and how new storage technologies are being developed in Lusatia: Stadtwerke Zittau, Zittauer Kraftwerkslabor - energy technologies for structural change b) Recultivation of industrial culture: Between research and society: Mandau-Höfe and site of the HSZG Co-Creation Lab, a place that is being revitalized with research ideas and today houses the German Aerospace Institute and the Fraunhofer IEG (geothermal energy) in addition to the HSZG and is to become a new creative place in Lusatia between research and society c) Post-mining in focus: Guided tours of the Johannisturm: Post-mining in focus |
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| 11:00-12:30 |
Panel 7: Transformative and transdisciplinary energy transition in global comparison/ sustainability Location: 1.01 in House Z IV Panel 8: Transformation as a cultural process and the role of culture in transformation Location: 1.02 in house Z IV |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch break with final discussion Location: Bürgersaal town hall Zittau |
