Three new project seminars I Go:Green in winter semester 2025/26

Project seminar I Go Green: Applied research projects in the context of cycling

The project seminar aims to actively promote the development of sustainability in terms of cycling at the University of Kassel through student involvement. Building on previous successful Cycassel projects, students are to develop and implement practice-oriented measures to pass on the joy of cycling. A central sub-project this year is the development of a bicycle-friendly route network with clear signage between all of the University of Kassel's campuses. This will not only promote sustainable mobility, but also increase the visibility and usability of climate-friendly alternatives in the everyday lives of staff and students at the University of Kassel.

The seminar is offered by Dr. Julia Limmeroth and Lisa Claußen at the Institute of Sport and Sport Science. It is open to students from the sports teaching degree program, as well as other degree programs such as empirical educational research, sustainable management or sustainability studies. Other degree programs at the University of Kassel are welcome to participate via the interdisciplinary area of additive key competencies. Lecturers who wish to integrate their projects in the field of sustainability (e.g. via the Kassel Institute for Sustainability, Green Office, SDG+Lab)Indirectly: the urban society).

Project seminar I Go Green: Sustainability in the lab

The project combines theory and practice: First, students receive a short lecture on sustainable laboratory organization. Subsequently, several laboratories on campus, supported by the departments of Hydrogeology and Resource Management & Waste Technology, are selected as pilot laboratories.
The students regularly check the consumption of certain plastic containers and document the savings, for example by recording how many materials are reused, cleaned and used for non-critical applications and how many non-reusable materials are sent for recycling.
The Green Office working groups and the university provide the practical framework in which the students help to design processes, plan logistics and evaluate the effectiveness of the system. Through this combination of theory, active participation and data evaluation, students acquire skills in sustainable laboratory practice, project organization and resource conservation. At the same time, the pilot project creates the basis for an expansion to other laboratories and the long-term implementation of sustainable practices at the University of Kassel.

The seminar is offered by Ali Rahmani Dadenjani at the Department of Hydrogeology - Institute for Water, Waste, Environment. The seminar is aimed at interdisciplinary students primarily from environmental engineering, secondarily from the natural sciences as well as students of ecological agricultural sciences and all other departments who regularly work in the laboratory. It is therefore aimed at all those who are involved in laboratory practice in their studies or research.

Project seminar I Go Green: Green plus Solar

The seminar deals with the many roofs on the university buildings. These are flat and covered with bitumen sheeting, plastic film or gravel. The roof cladding contains the herbicide Mecoprop to protect against root penetration. This is washed out. The limit value for surface water and drinking water is exceeded in the roof runoff. However, the state of the art is
vegetation roofs on which solar modules are mounted. Such roofs serve environmental, resource and climate protection, climate adaptation, human health and the saving of energy, water and operating costs in equal measure. Content of the project seminar: Cadastre of roofs with flat roofs on the campuses, exemplary
planning of the conversion, calculation of economic efficiency.

The seminar is offered by Dr. Jochen Wulfhorst at the Department of Transport Planning and Transport Systems - Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. It is open to all students.

The project seminars will soon be listed in the course catalog .