The Week at TU Braunschweig │08.11.2024 Our Newsletter for all Employees
Topics: Aquaculture in the open ocean + health monitoring in cars + remediation of war-torn soils
► Keeping your fingers crossed
November is all about reviews. We wish the two excellence clusters SE²A and QuantumFrontiers every success. A big thank you to everyone who worked hard on the applications and preparations right up to the last minute!
► How the ‘Langer Kamp 8’ task force work
In the case of the partial evacuation of the institute building at Langer Kamp 8, a group was formed across many organisational units. The aim of the task force is to ensure the continued operation of the facilities previously housed there and to re-establish optimal working conditions. In this interview, President Angela Ittel and Vice President Dietmar Smyrek provide an insight into the work of the task force.
► The future of seaweed farming
The international joint project ‘Ngā Punga o te Moana – Anchoring Our Open Ocean Future’, in which the Leichtweiß Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources is involved, aims to shift aquaculture from congested coastal regions to open, exposed offshore areas. Experts in hydraulic engineering, civil engineering and marine biology are working together to develop technologies that can withstand the extreme conditions of the high seas.
► Intelligent car detects cardiovascular diseases
The Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics (PLRI) will be demonstrating how the interior of a vehicle can be transformed into a medical-diagnostic space, enabling preventive healthcare, at the Medica medical technology trade fair in Düsseldorf from 11 to 14 November. The scientists will be presenting their SmartCar.
► An archive of historical biodiversity
… is the 300-year-old Herbarium Ruperti. Together with the Herzog August Library and the Centre for Climate Research Lower Saxony, scientists from the Institute of Plant Biology are restoring, digitising and researching around 1,300 plants from the area that is now Lower Saxony.
► For a sustainable reconstruction of Ukraine
Dr Anastasiia Splodytel’s work focuses on researching and restoring war-damaged soils. Since October 2024, the Ukrainian scientist has been doing research in the Department of Soil Science at the Institute of Geoecology, supported by a two-year fellowship from the Philipp Schwartz Initiative for scientists at risk. A warm welcome!
► Humboldt Research Award winner as a guest
A warm welcome also to Prof Eamonn O’Brien from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The mathematician is currently conducting research at the Institute of Analysis and Algebra. Together with Prof Bettina Eick’s team, he is developing methods in the field of computer algebra and their application.
► Innovative media technology in the new Media Lab
The Media Lab on the ground floor of the old building officially opens on 11 November. The team from the work and experimentation room for media-based teaching and learning will be presenting the lab to all interested parties on 11, 13 and 14 November. Please feel free to drop by!
► 100 Years of the Institute of Philosophy
On 15 November, the Institute of Philosophy celebrates its centenary and the founding of the Institute by Willy Moog, a committed pacifist who wrote a book on Kant’s treatise on peace. This will be read together in the evening at the reading workshop at the Abbot Jerusalem Academy. The celebrations will begin in the morning on the North Campus. Congratulations!
► Mail from Trondheim
… was sent to us by TU employee Daniel Götjen. The project manager from the International House visited NTNU Trondheim with the Erasmus+ Staff Programme and talks about it in the magazine.
► Fast & Furious – the perfect race car
The Lions Racing Team gives students the opportunity to create their own racing car, gain valuable hands-on experience and compete against other universities during their studies. A look at how the team works and prepares for the competition.
► NFL Research Day 2024
The Aeronautics Research Centre Niedersachsen (NFL) is organising the ‘NFL Research Day’ on 28 November. The programme under the motto ‘NewSpace in Germany’ includes the presentation of the NFL prizes and some exciting presentations. The event will take place hybrid.
► Book Release: Give Me an Asterisk
The book ‘Give Me an Asterisk. On the art of thematising diversity in urban space’ is the third act of the two-year collaboration between our university and the Braunschweig University of Art. The book will be presented in a small and varied way at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste on 11 November from 19 o’clock.
► Club instead of lecture theatre at Profs@Turntables
Students and guests will be partying for a good cause at Profs@Turntables on 21 November. Professors and lecturers from TU Braunschweig, Ostfalia and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste will be playing music from their student days, their favourite tunes or their own playlists in Braunschweig’s discotheques. As every year, all proceeds will be donated to charity.
► Actively shaping internationalisation
From 13 to 15 December, the DAAD Student Conference at TU Braunschweig will focus on the internationalisation of universities. Registration for the conference, at which representatives of student bodies, universities, student unions and the DAAD will discuss topics such as global crises, the housing situation for international students and the situation of refugee students, is now open and free.
► Innovative Programme Development Lab Offer
On 29 November, the first workshop offered by the Lab will provide colleagues who are organising and conducting discussions with external experts as part of upcoming (re)accreditation processes, as well as those interested in programme development processes, with ideas on how to guide these discussions and make them effective and purposeful.
► Gender fair job advertisements
The online workshop of the Central Human Resources Development ‘Addressing women and men equally – How should gender-fair job advertisements be formulated?’ will take place on 28 November from 9 am to 1 pm. Registrations until 27 November via Stud.IP.
► Seed Funding-Call for projects with Taiwan Tech
The application phase for the Seed Funding Programme with the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology runs until 2 December. Funding of up to 6,000 euros per application is available for researchers and administrative staff travelling to develop joint publications at both universities.
► eTrainer funding
The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) is awarding funding for student assistants for the year 2025. They are to develop digital teaching and learning materials for scientific and technical degree programmes and prepare them as open educational resources (OER). A short application by 18 December is sufficient.
► “Show your research”
The university competition ‘Science Year 2025 – Future Energy’ invites students and young researchers from all disciplines to contribute creative communication ideas to the social debate on the topic of ‘Future Energy’. We are looking for projects that shed light on research questions from different perspectives and initiate an active dialogue with citizens.
► German Study Award 2025
The Körber Foundation’s competition is aimed at young academics from all disciplines who have submitted an ‘excellent dissertation of particular social significance’ in 2024. With three top prizes of 25,000 euros each, it is one of the most highly endowed prizes for young researchers in Germany. The closing date for entries is 1 March 2025.
► The Sandkasten project “Ukraine CandleBridge”
… collects leftover candle wax to support the local civilian population. The project team would like to collect 500 kg of leftover wax to support the local population and send it to Ukraine to create candles that provide light and warmth. They are still looking for supporters and team members.
► Darling of the week
… are bacteria named after female scientists. To counteract the gender gap in the naming of bacterial strains, microbiologist Prof. Yvonne Mast, who holds a joint professorship at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the DSMZ, and her team investigated 28 new actinomycete strains for their drug biosynthesis potential as antibiotic producers and named them after female scientists.
► Events
There is always something going on at TU Braunschweig. Discussions, information events, concerts and much more. Take a look at our calendar of events and get inspired.