Beginning on 25^th November 2019, the Climate Action Week #week4CLIMATE will take place all over Germany. It is initiated by the movement “Fridays for Future” and will end on 29^th November 2019 with the 4^th global climate strike. At TU Dresden, a Public Climate School, organised by Students for Future and the TU environmental initiative tuuwi, offers numerous workshops, discussions, lectures and campaigns. https://fffdd.de/aktionen/pcs.

For TU Dresden, it does not even come into question that climate change – with its far-reaching consequences for the people and the environment – is and will be the greatest social challenge of our time. Nevertheless, we lament how the dire warnings of the overwhelming majority of scientists fall on deaf ears. Even in teaching, research and everyday life at the university, these topics sometimes do not receive adequate attention. For this reason, a group of committed students and staff from the Senate, the TU Environmental Initiative (tuuwi), Students for Future Dresden, Scientists for Future Dresden and professors have set themselves the goal of establishing the #LecturesForFuture format at TU Dresden. Lecturers are invited to dedicate part of their courses to the topic of climate change and sustainability during the action week.

For the planned activities of the group “HSZfürsKlima”, which will be carried out in parallel to the climate action week, TU Dresden has made the foyer in front of the lecture hall POT 81 and the forecourt of the Potthoff building facing Fritz-Förster-Platz available for the whole week, so that the events of the “self-organised university” of this group can take place there. The group’s initial request that the Audimax, the largest lecture theatre in the Auditorium Centre, be made available to them for the entire week as a strike location could not be fulfilled by the University Executive Board due to the short-term nature and the lack of available premises at TUD. All lectures due to take place in the Audimax would have had to have been cancelled as there are no alternate locations available for these large courses.

Climate protection is inscribed in the fundamental values of the mission statement of TU Dresden. Only at the beginning of November new proposals for resource consumption, mobility and also for better networking within and outside the university were developed at the conference “A Roadmap to sustainable Universities – Development Paths to More Sustainability at TU Dresden” under the leadership of the Environmental Protection Group. A laboratory for future is planned for the first half of 2020, in which students and teachers will work together to integrate sustainability and climate protection topics into the courses offered at TU Dresden.

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