Neutral lightweight engineering – routes to a world in balance

The 25^th International Dresden Lightweight Engineering Symposium

The Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK) at TU Dresden and the Akademischer Club Leichtbau an der TU Dresden e.V. again are organizing the International Dresden Lightweight Engineering Symposium this year. The motto and focus of the anniversary symposium has been set and the program is gradually filling up with exciting contributions and prominent guests.

Sustainable management of our planet's resources can only be achieved by reducing consumption to the bare minimum. This does not necessarily require strict asceticism, but in any case a conscious use of the valuable materials that are only finitely available. The necessary approaches to thinking and solving this problem have been at the core of modern lightweight engineering since it was developed in Dresden in the early 1990s. Climate-friendly lightweighting technologies are one of the most powerful levers for the industrial future of our society in a social and ecological market economy. Already in 2017, the ILK has therefore committed itself to research environmentally neutral and globally fair product and process design with a view to neutral lightweight engineering.

At the 25^th International Dresden Lightweight Engineering Symposium 2022, we want to outline and discuss - after two pandemic years back face-to-face - the paths to a liveable future. Under the special bias of the anniversary, we are looking forward to numerous top-class lectures and more than 300 guests who will help to shape this still unwritten future of lightweight engineering. Particularly, we are looking forward to presentations that use concrete examples to show how we can use economic driving forces as catalysts for environmental protection and resource conservation in the future, thus creating a liveable and socially fairer world for the next generations. The symposium is all about forward-looking socio-eco-technical ideas and innovations that implement the triad of humans, technology and environment in an exemplary manner: this year's motto is "Neutral lightweight engineering - Ways to a world in balance"!

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