The members of TU Dresden are expressly called upon to play an active role in shaping an environmentally friendly and sustainable university. Funding can be applied for to implement your own measures in the area of the environment and sustainability. Applicants have received funding from the Environmental Commission for 2022-2024 and the submitted proposal has been included in the Commission's annual catalogue of measures. A jury of KU representatives evaluated the submitted applications.

The measures and projects that the Environment Commission supports through its initiative budget independently of the sustainability strategy action plan are presented below.

Final report

Measures funded by the Environment Commission must submit a final report by January 31 of the following year. Please use this template.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Environment Commission office.

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SustainAbility - student-organized basic lecture on Ecological Sustainability at the Green Office

The funding will continue in 2024. This is the first event at the TUD that provides a regular, low-threshold and barrier-free introduction to the topic of sustainability with its challenges, solutions and opportunities for action. It increases the accessibility of topics such as climate change and biodiversity loss and thus creates the basis for independent study.

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AG Plants and Care

The reintroduced working group works with students to professionally maintain selected campus areas and upgrade them ecologically. Participants learn about climate resilience and material cycles on site, and a pool of tools is also being built up. Better-maintained areas are also an external advertisement and demonstration area for sustainable ecological action.

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E-Cargo Bike: sustainable transportation of teaching materials and other technology for the Department of Hydro Sciences

The Department conducts research on ecological issues at different locations that are far away from each other. The Department's staff aim to carry out transportation and sampling between the Department's locations (Dresden, Pirna, Tharandt) and experimental permanent observation sites around Dresden in an environmentally friendly manner.

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Demonstrator for oil-free heat pumps at the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering

This demonstrator shows that heat pumps can be built and operated oil-free and therefore conserve resources. Only environmentally friendly refrigerants are used. The demonstrator is available for teaching purposes in order to show future engineers in energy technology, mechanical engineering, etc., more environmentally friendly and sustainable technology options.

• Measures and projects funded in 2023
• Measures and projects funded in 2022


 

2023 Funded Measures

• Development of an institutional sustainability process at the Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (ZLSB)
• Support for the Future Workshop for Sustainable Education (ZuNaBi) - "Thinking Future - Shaping Present" as a space for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners from different departments
• Expansion of the TUD CampusAcker in the Botanical Garden as a place of research and learning at TU Dresden
• Promotion of the student-organized basic lecture on ecological sustainability
• Support for the student campaign Sustainable Building and Outdoor Space Design at the TUD
• Promotion of the Expedition Campus on the topic of sustainability as an offer in cooperation with schools
• Continuation of the project Recycling of cultivation pots to implement the reuse of cultivation pots
• Development of a modular online course on the sustainable use of IT by the Digitalization Working Group
• Promotion of the biodiversity and ecosystem services working group
• Development of a dynamic teaching tool to promote sustainable future thinking by the Institute of English Studies
• Creation of a compulsory elective module "Planetary Health" by the Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine

 2022 Funded Measures 

• Mobility survey of all TU Dresden employees and students to visualize the ecological footprint of TU Dresden with an update of the surveys from 2008 and 2018
• Construction of a bicycle pumping station at the university hospital
• Installation by conceptual artist Asad Raza in theOffice for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections of the TUD to illustrate the soil-tree-climate continuum as an example
• Implementation of the basic lecture on ecological sustainability
• Acquisition of several e-cargo bikes for sustainable transportation on campus
• Establishment of a communication and learning space on campus
• "Recycling of growing pots" project for the reuse of growing pots
• Creation of a new educational school garden in the Botanical Garden