Der Klimawandel ist eine der größten Herausforderungen, vor denen die Menschheit je stand. Gemeinsam mit Alumni auf der ganzen Welt, Promovierenden aller Fachrichtungen und Gästen möchten wir diskutieren, wie wir in unseren Fachgebieten zur Verwirklichung des notwendigen gesellschaftlichen Wandels beitragen können, welche Auswirkungen dies haben wird und was dies für die Ausbildung unserer Studierenden und Promovierenden heute bedeutet.

Zunächst präsentieren drei promovierte Alumni, die heute bei den Vereinten Nationen sowie an Universitäten im Sudan und Brasilien tätig sind, Vorträge zu Klimaveränderungen in der ganzen Welt. Danach laden wir Sie zu unseren Workshops ein, in denen wir Lösungen für verschiedene gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen im Zusammenhang mit der CO₂-Problematik, der Digitalisierung und dem European Green Deal diskutieren.

Das Freiberg Future Forum wird von Dr. Kristina Wopat, Direktorin der Graduierten- und Forschungsakademie der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, geleitet und findet als Online-Veranstaltung per Big Blue Button in englischer Sprache statt.

Freiberg Future Forum

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced. Thanks to science and its worldwide cooperation, we are also able to develop solutions across disciplines in order to transform societies and economies within a historically short period of just 30 years in such a way that we can operate in a completely climate-neutral manner. In its Green Deal, the European Union set the political goal that the European Union should become completely climate-neutral by 2050.

At first, we present three keynote speeches on climatic changes all over the world. The keynote speakers are three alumni with a doctorate of our university who now work at the United Nations and at universities in Sudan and Brazil. After that, we invite you to join our workshops where we can discuss solutions for different societal challenges based on the European Green Deal for the creation of a climate-neutral economy by 2050. In the final part of the Freiberg Future Forum we will discuss about the requirements of this paradigmatic changes for the education of students and doctoral students at our university.

The Freiberg Future Forum will be chaired by Dr. Kristina Wopat, director of the Graduate and Research Academy of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, and takes place as an online event via Big Blue Button.

Program

9.00-9.30 am – Welcome

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, Rector of TU Bergakademie Freiberg and Dr. Kristina Wopat, Director of the Graduate and Research Academy of TU Bergakademie Freiberg

9.30-11.30 am – Keynote Speeches

• Climate change: to monitor the impact and prepare climate change adaption plans on the example of Sudan Wetland Inventory – Dr. Khalid Kheiralla, Al Neelain University Khartoum, Sudan
• Climate change: Using Remote Sensing Applications for monitoring of climate changes, including the impacts of bush fires in the rain forests and smoke in Brazil. What does this mean to the climate change research? – Dr. Veraldo Liesenberg, Universidade do Estado de Santa Katharina Lages, Brazil
• International cooperation towards curbing illicit financial flows: The extractive sector through a South–South cooperation lens – Dr. Anida Yupari, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva

• The European Green Deal – some insights into the work at the European Commission – Dirk Peters von Rosenstiel, Policy Officer – Second National Expert, European Commission – Directorate-General for Energy,
  Interview with Dr. Kristina Wopat

11.30 – 12.30 am – Lunch Break

You are invited to join our break-out rooms during lunch break. Members of the Graduate and Research Academy of TU Bergakademie Freiberg will be available and are open for questions, discussions and small talk.

12.30-2.00 pm – Workshop Slot 1

• Sustainable agriculture – Melvice Epede, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
• The EU biodiversity strategy and mining – implications and perspectives – Dr. Roland Achtziger, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
• Good Governance – Dr. Anida Yupari, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva
• Climate Action – Dr. Umer Shafique, Government College University (GCU) Lahore, Pakistan
• Open discussion with keynote speaker Dr. Khalid Kheiralla, Al Neelain University, Karthoum, Republic of the Sudan

2.15-3.45 pm – Workshop Slot 2

• Besides Going Green – Going Smart with innovative IS-Technologies in SMEs – Marlen Rimbeck and Justus Emanuel Wähling, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
• Technology for Sustainable Development – an NGO-based approach – Robert de Payrebrune, Ingenieure ohne Grenzen e.V.
• Sustainability reporting, the Non-Financial Reporting Directive and the European Green Deal – increasing requirements for EU companies in order to inform stakeholder about the sustainability of their investments – Prof. Karina Sopp, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
• Sustainable Mobility (working title) – Lara Windler, Project Manager Racetech Team TU Bergakademie Freiberg and Dr. Kristina Wopat, Director of the Graduate and Research Academy of TU Bergakademie Freiberg
• Open discussion with keynote speaker Dr. Veraldo Liesenberg, Universidade do Estado de Santa Katharina Lages, Brazil

4.00-4.30 pm – Summary and conclusion

Studies and doctorates put to the test – do we need changes and an extended competence profile for the challenges of the future?
Round table discussion with the moderators

Dr. Kristina Wopat, Director of the Graduate and Research Academy of TU Bergakademie Freiberg