Sustainability

Sustainability Day

09.07.2025, 10 am - 6 pm at Bielefeld University

The Sustainability Day will take place at Bielefeld University on 9 July from 10 am to 6 pm. There will be various exciting programme items. The reason for the Sustainability Day is the award ceremony for the Sustainability Prize. This will take place in H5 from 4 to 6 pm.

Throughout the day, there will be stands in the university hall where various university initiatives will be presenting themselves.

Other events are also planned, which we will inform you about shortly.

 

Campus tour Uni Bienen

When: 05.06.2025, 15-16:30, registration at: nachhaltigkeitsbuero@uni-bielefeld.de

Have you ever heard it humming on the university campus? If not, it's high time you did. There are currently around ten bee colonies on the outdoor biology grounds. On this campus tour, Nils Hasenbein, Student Affairs Officer for the Faculty of Biology, will give you an insight into the life of the university bees and their use in teaching and research. It's not just about beekeeping and honey: the orientation services, collection and pollination activities as well as the social and reproductive behaviour of bees provide plenty of material for exciting discussions.

Notes:

In the event of heavy rain or storms, the tour will unfortunately have to be cancelled.

The number of participants is limited, so please register as soon as possible.

In order to get an impression of your level of knowledge, it would be helpful for us if you could assign yourself to a status group (students, employees, scientific staff) when registering. Thank you very much!

 

Workshop with Jannik Heckmann (S4F): "From oil heating to heat pumps - education for sustainable development using the example of heating"

When? 09.07.2025, 2 to 4 pm

Where? Room U2- 139

Registration at: nachhaltigkeitsbuero@uni-bielefeld.de

After a brief theoretical introduction, participants can experience for themselves what education for sustainable development (ESD) can look like using the example topic of heating. As part of a "group puzzle", the participants use worksheets to explain to each other how natural gas, heating oil, wood pellet and fuel cell heating systems work and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. In particular, the emissions caused are discussed. The group puzzle is supplemented by a worksheet on heat pumps including an explanatory experiment.

Sustainability newsletter

With the Sustainability Newsletter, the Sustainability Office informs you at irregular intervals about current developments in the field of sustainability at Bielefeld University. You will also receive information on internal and external events, funding (e.g. teaching and research funding) and exciting projects from the universities community relating to the topic of sustainability.

Subscribe to the sustainability mailing list to receive the newsletter.

Did you know ...

...that there are Ricoh toner collection boxes and non-Ricoh toner collection boxes in most of the university's copy rooms? In both cases, the collected cartridges are reconditioned and reused after an inspection and only disposed of if they cannot be reconditioned. The respective departments / secretary's offices are responsible for purchasing the Ricoh boxes themselves.

The collection box for the Collection Dragon campaign can be requested by sending an email to abfallwirtschaft@uni-bielefeld.de.