Toward Greater Sustainability with Mammoths, Trash, and Coal
From 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., visitors can look forward to exciting keynote presentations, open labs, and interactive projects focused on the environment, climate protection, and sustainable technologies. For example, anyone interested can drop by Room B152 at any time to attend one of the presentations and learn more about current research topics at the University. Among other things, they’ll find answers to questions such as why students are sending a balloon into the stratosphere, why trash will soon be the most valuable raw material, how mammoths could help preserve permafrost, how biochar sequesters CO2 for centuries, how cells build the products of the future, or how modern biological tests help protect water and public health. In the open labs, participants can experience, for example, how a slime mold helps optimize transportation and supply routes, how to make popcorn with hot air, what role microbes play in the environment, how seawater is turned into drinking water, or how empty plastic bottles are transformed into 3D-printing filament. Additional work by researchers and students is on display in the “Meet the Young Researchers” exhibition. Over tarte flambée and drinks, visitors can then chat with the experts and round out the evening in a relaxed atmosphere on campus.
The detailed program, including all start times and locations, is available at https://www.hs-offenburg.de/hochschule/veranstaltungen/detail/umweltnacht-2026.