Networking & Exchange

A forum for knowledge transfer, mutual learning and interdisciplinary exchange

08:00                     

Konzerthaus Freiburg

LAUREATES SYMPOSIUM

 

Introduction

▪ Virginia Sonntag-O’Brien
Board of Trustees, European Environment Foundation

08:15

Master Classes                

 Laureates's presentations08:15

“Social Media for small  budgets” 

▪  Benjamin Borgerding                     
    Digital Campaigner,
    Greenpeace Germany
                                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

▪ Bruno Chareyron, France
Improving people education about the radiological impact of the nuclear industry

▪ David Lowry, United Kingdom
Nuclear power’s overlooked insecurity

▪ Pinar Demican (on behalf of Arif Ali Cangi), Turkey
Environmental challenge against private investments supported by government, e.g. nuclear energy

▪ Dipal Chandra Barua, Bangladesh and
 Bhaskar SenGupta, United Kingdom
 Solar Home System

▪ Vidya Sagar Devabhaktuni, India
SKGS Biodigester projects

▪ Samson Tsegaye, Ethiopia
Lighting Student Homes

 

 

10:00

short break & networking

10:15

Master Classes               

 Laureates's presentations10:15

“Donau Soja – the
development of a
European standard”
 

▪   Ursula Bittner
    Secretary General, 
    Donau Soja Association

                                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

▪ Sonam Wangchuk, India
Himalayan Institute of Alternatives

▪ Bunker Roy, India
Solar Mamas of the World

▪ Racheal Chagonja, Tanzania
Youths' experience in the U-BAN campaigns; challenges and opportunities

▪ Heide Bergmann, Germany
Learning to Shape the Future

▪ Elias Kindle, Liechtenstein
Entrepreneurship in the emerging paradigm

▪ Heike Hoedt (on behalf of Wolfgang Scheffler) , Germany
Combating the current crisis of democracy – Initiative on the participation of the civil society

 

 

12:00

lunch break

13:00

Master Classes                  

Laureates's presentations

13:00

“Cradle to Cradle - a holistic
approach towards high quality
production”  
    
                               

▪  Monika Griefahn           
    Chairman Cradle to
    Cradle e.V. Germany

                                                                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

▪ Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, Iran
Bone marrow of children living near former U.S. base in Nasiriyah, Iraq is contaminated with toxic metals

▪ Sergiy Zibtsev, Ukraine
Efforts on long-term reduction of catastrophic wildfire risks in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

▪ Marie-Luise Marjan, Germany
Vietnam: Future prospects in times of climate change    

▪ Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, Mongolia
Mongolia – The world's clean water

▪ Michel André, Spain
Listening to the Deep-Ocean: A global underwater noise monitoring initiative

 

 

14.30

short break & networking

14:45

Master Classes                

 Laureates's presentations14:45

The Divestment Movement
- Establishing a decentralised
network of campaign groups

▪  Leandra Praetzel
    Workshop trainer, 350.org

 

                                                               

 

 

                                                        

 

▪ Julia Riedel, Germany
Chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, are on the edge of extinction

▪ Hotlin Ompusunggu, Indonesia
Healthcare incentives to protect orangutans and endangered wildlife in Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo

▪ Karen Aghababyan, Armenia
White Storks in Armenia: the story of success and building sustainability

▪ Bertram Verhaag, Germany
Film: CODE OF SURVIVAL or the End of Genetic Engineering

▪ Humberto Rios Labrada, Spain/Cuba
Agro-biodiversity Management. Travelling from "Subsides to Business Models"

 

 

16:15

Laureates call for end to repression against environmental activists

 

18:30

Weinschlösschen Freiburg

Dinner
in the romantic historic celler of the Weinschlösschen Freiburg

20:00

Konzerthaus Freiburg

PUBLIC EVENING LECTURE

    Introduction
    ▪  Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
        EEF Board of Trustees; Co-Chair Club of Rome

    Video message

    ▪   Bertrand Piccard 
        Pilot, Solar Impulse
        “Around the world in a solar airplane”

KEYNOTE

▪   Felix Finkbeiner
    Founder Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation
    “Planting trees for a better world – how children save their future”

▪   Tristram Stuart
    Author, speaker, campaigner and expert on the
    environmental and social impacts of food waste
    “The cost of food waste”