Events

We all have a need for mobility. Our researcher Maike Puhe would like to discuss with you how local public transport in Karlsruhe and the surrounding region can best meet your needs in the future and what ideas research has to offer.
 
WHEN? July 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. WHERE? Karl9, Karlstraße 9, Karlsruhe Entry free. You can come and go at any time.
"Tell me, ITAS" is a series of events organized by ITAS at Karl9 - Science hub for technology and society. Researchers move their workplace to Karl9 for an afternoon and answer your questions about their research topics.

Start your own #climatechallenge!
The #climatechallenge is aimed at people who would like to get more involved in climate protection and would like to hold their own workshop in their private or professional environment. In the approximately three-hour online training you will get to know the workshop format in more detail. Anyone who works or does voluntary work in municipalities, neighborhoods, clubs or parishes can take part. We also offer all participants in the training courses supervision for exchange and networking.
 
Places are limited. The training language is German. Participation is free of charge.
 
The organizer is the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change at ITAS. The #climatechallenge project is funded by the National Climate Protection Initiative.
 
More information and registration

Station Zukunft showcases sustainability contributions and initiatives. It offers all groups and organizations that are already making contributions to a sustainable future a stage in the heart of Karlsruhe in front of the Schloss to present themselves and get in touch with visitors. 
 
Station Zukunft will include
a market of opportunities a joint picnic and a bar camp.  
Details of the program can be found here.
 
The Station Future takes place as part of the Umzug in die Zukunft and is organized by the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change (KAT) at ITAS/KIT.

A moving film contribution at the Schlosslichtspiele!
 
Umzug in die Zukunft - Auf dem Weg in die Zukunftsweltstadt. The short film (5 min) is intended to touch, inspire, raise questions and invite people to develop new visions of desirable living environments in and around Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe is on its way to becoming a city of the future! Carl Wilhelm reloaded - but not as a vision of an absolutist autocrat - but as a cooperation of individual and collective transformation processes - for a culture of sustainability and joie de vivre!
 
Details of the program can be found here.
 
The short film project is part of the Umzug in die Zukunft and is organized by the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change (KAT) at ITAS/KIT.

Test, deepen and share your climate knowledge!
 
Understand our climate system in just three hours? You can with the climate puzzle. The climate puzzle is a workshop based on the reports of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and breaks down the most important information on 42 playing cards. As a team, you put these playing cards in the order of cause and effect and thus recognize the systemic nature of climate change. The approach promotes critical and interdisciplinary thinking, boosts team spirit and provides space for open dialog and solution-oriented discussion, so that both professionals and newcomers can take something away with them. Sounds complicated - but it's very simple!
 
The workshop takes place in three phases:
1) THINKING (approx. 90 minutes): in 5 rounds, the team examines the 42 playing cards for their cause-and-effect relationship and creates the puzzle together.   
2) CREATIVITY (approx. 30 minutes): colorful design of the finished puzzle in order to process and assimilate what has been learned.  
3) REFLECTION (approx. 60 minutes): enter into dialog, reflect together, exchange ideas and have a solution-oriented discussion. Share thoughts, motivations and fears and think about next steps.
  
Background: The workshop inspires many participants to become workshop leaders themselves. This resulted in a worldwide community of climate puzzlers: We puzzle in over 150 countries in 45 languages! Around 1,700,000 people worldwide have already done the puzzle! 
 
Suitable for adults and young people aged 14 and over. Minimum number of participants for the workshop: 4 people.
 
 

Karlsruhe is becoming warmer and drier as climate changes in southwest Germany. Large city trees often become the first target for removal during infrastructure projects. At the same time, the poor vitality of city trees due to climate change impacts, diseases, and early aging of trees also sometimes contributes to the premature removal of trees. In this presentation, I will show the importance of large trees in cooling and biodiversity conservation in urban areas (e.g., streets, cemeteries, and parks) and provide some outlook on improving arboriculture and tree care so that the large trees can be kept in the city for a longer time. I will provide examples from the concluded GrüneLunge, ongoing URBORETUM, and other research projects.

At the climate protection conference of the Research Institute of the Protestant Study Community (FEST), experts will share their experiences in the implementation of church climate protection concepts. Dr. Volker Stelzer from the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) will be speaking about the church's involvement in municipal heat planning. 
 
The conference will take place on November 19 and 20 in Würzburg and is aimed at those responsible for climate protection in the regional churches and dioceses, as well as interested persons who are planning a climate protection concept or its implementation.