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05/28/2019 | Pressemitteilung

Campus festival with Sven Plöger on June 6

ARD meteorologist and author Sven Plöger will be a prominent guest at this year's Campusfest at the University of Kassel on June 6. In addition to his lecture on weather extremes and climate change, there will be numerous other popular science lectures, hands-on experiments, guided tours of laboratories and much more. The university in northern Hesse is again expecting thousands of visitors.

Saving the world can also be fun - at least if you follow the live appearances of ARD weather expert and book author Sven Plöger. Whether he's talking about climate change, the energy transition or any other weather-related topic, when Plöger speaks, he's on top form. With a lot of humor and exciting facts, the self-confessed Rhinelander, supported by impressive visual material, shares with the audience his fascination for all topics related to weather and climate - as also at the Campusfest of the University of Kassel on June 6 (6 p.m., Campus Center, Lecture Hall 1). Afterwards, he will discuss climate change and what needs to be done now to mitigate its consequences with Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind, president of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, renowned transformation researcher and member of the University Council of Kassel.

Plöger's lecture is part of the university's fourth Campusfest, to which the university again expects several thousand visitors. It will take place from 3 to 9 p.m. on the Holländischer Platz campus - with talks (e.g., with documentary filmmaker Klaus Stern), tours (e.g., of the refectory kitchen or scientific laboratories), hands-on experiments (e.g., on working with artificial intelligence), lectures (e.g., on replacing thinking with Googling), a rousing cultural program (e.g., with brass rap by Flooot) and much more. From 4 p.m. until late at night, AStA will hold its Coon Festival in parallel.

"Our Campusfest, that's science you can touch," invites the president of the university, Prof. Dr. Reiner Finkeldey, all interested people from the city and the region. "I am pleased that this year again the students are joining their Raccoon Festival. This also shows a strong piece of our university - and even late in the evening, so no one has to go home."

Campus festival on June 6, 3 to 9 p.m., around the Campus Center, Moritzstrasse 18. Admission to all program items free. Afterwards party of the AStA. The complete program at www.uni-kassel.de/go/campusfest