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02/12/2020 | Pressemitteilung

Making bio-plastics yourself: 10,000 euros for bioeconomy events

Slams, experiments and storytelling cafés: The initiative Wissenschaft im Dialog (Science in Dialog) supports a team from the University of Kassel in communicating on the topic of the bioeconomy. Public events are aimed at citizens.

Image: CoLab.
Özge Efendi and Tobias Hofmann

For science slams, storytelling cafés, workshops and experiments, the CoLab team can budget 10,000 euros until the end of this year. The events will take place from April to November 2020 and are aimed at a broad audience in Kassel and the region - more information will be available soon in the calendar of events. Two young people from Kassel are behind CoLab: master's student Özge Efendi and former student Tobias Hofmann.

Bioeconomy refers to a way of doing business that is not based on the consumption of fossil resources, but is sustainable and biobased. For example, Efendi and Hofmann want to produce bio-plastics with participants in a workshop. Other directions of the bioeconomy deal with energy extraction from algae, to name another example.

The initiative Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD) is dedicating the Science Year 2020 to the bioeconomy. 14 other initiatives were awarded prizes in a competition in addition to the Kassel project. WiD is committed to discussion and exchange about research in Germany and is supported by major science organizations.