The Week at TU Braunschweig │17.01.2025 Our Newsletter for all Employees
Topics: Your vote counts! + Methane “sniffing over the Baltic” + Women in music
Redaktion: Hannah Kreß
► #WeRemember
On Monday 27 January, the nationwide day of remembrance, the TU Braunschweig will commemorate the victims of National Socialism. At the university-wide event, which will take place at 2.30 pm in front of the old building, TU members will have the opportunity to commemorate the victims with a minute’s silence.
► Reminder Hochschulwahlen
The online University elections started yesterday! You can help shape the future of our University by voting before 12 noon on 23 January. Members of the Senate and their deputies, Faculty Councils, the Commission for Equality and the Doctoral Candidate Representation are up for election. Students also elect the student parliament, student representives and student group councils. Instructions on how to vote can be found here.
► Office Hour with the President
Would you like to discuss your concerns and ideas confidentially with the President in person or in a small group? If so, please register with Karen Lehmann by 23 January for the Office Hours on 28 January.
► Nord Stream pipelines: methane emissions analysed after damage
In 2022, the HELiPOD helicopter towed probe from TU Braunschweig and DLR carried out methane measurements over the Baltic Sea. The analyses of the measurement results have now been published in “Nature” and “Nature Communications”.
► “There is entrepreneurial potential in all of us”
Bastian Kindermann is the new Professor for Business Creation and Succession at the Institute of Automotive Management and Industrial Production. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, digitalisation, innovation ecosystems and strategy.
► Electric, connected and automated
The BMBF project AUTOtech.agil is creating an open software and hardware architecture for the mobility system of the future. The Institute of Automatic Control and the Institute of Data Technology and Communication Networks are involved in the joint project. A 92-page newsletter summarises the progress made so far.
► TU expert in the battery podcast
Tesla is said to have achieved a breakthrough in dry coating the electrodes of electric car batteries. Marcella Horst from the Institute of Particle Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) discusses whether this hurdle in cell production has really been overcome and what advantages it offers in the “Charged” battery podcast.
► Wool – an undervalued resource
Professor Folke Köbberling and the Institute of Architecture-Related Art are working intensively with wool as an underestimated resource. Together with students, she is experimenting with the potential of sheep’s wool for architecture. In her book “Wollbau”, Folke Köbberling gives an insight into the various projects using this natural material.
► Vilnius Tech visited TU Braunschweig
In early January, a delegation from the Lithuanian partner university visited TU Braunschweig to discuss, among other things, the joint double degree programme in mechanical engineering.
► Knowledge nugget – the snack after lunch
Marius Seebach will demonstrate the potential of online whiteboards for teaching in a practice-oriented 45-minute workshop on 27 January. The event is organised by Co3Learn, a joint project of the universities of Braunschweig, Göttingen and Hanover. Please register by e-mail to info@co3learn.de.
► Change! Fellowships
Researchers who would like to conduct research on transformation processes together with stakeholders outside of academia can submit their research proposals until the beginning of April (early career phase: junior research groups) or probably the second half of 2025 (established researchers: research groups). The call guidelines are currently being revised and are expected to be published next week.
► Presentations updated
The new presentations provide an overview of TU Braunschweig. You can use the slides for external presentation and customize them individually.
► Blood donation on the main campus
On 21 and 22 January, the German Red Cross will be present with its blood donation vehicle on the main campus between 11am and 5pm. Appointments to donate blood can be booked in advance.
► Invitation to the Impact Learning Final Event
At the Institute Wirtschaftsinformatik – Service Information Systems, Impact Learning is being implemented this semester in the Master’s programme “Digitale Transformation: Kooperatione”. Five groups of students are demonstrating how they can make a difference in society through collaboration. Interested parties are invited to the final event on 23 January in room SN 19.3.
► Darling of the Week
Music history is full of talented women composers. However, their compositions are often underrepresented compared to those of their male colleagues – even in the repertoire of our university orchestra. Our orchestra wants to change this by presenting a whole universe of phenomenal music by female composers in its end-of-semester concerts entitled “Femininomenom – Symphonic Music by Women Composers”. The concerts will take place on 25 January at 7pm, 26 January at 5pm and 28 January at 8pm in the Audimax.
► 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.