Current events of the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues
UfU regularly organizes specialist conferences, educational events and similar events. You can use this overview to register for the various events. If you have any questions about registration or other inquiries, please contact Jonas Rüffer.
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Current events
FUTURE LAB: WORK, HAPPINESS AND LIFETIME
How do I want to live?
How do I want to look?
How do I use my time?
What does good work mean to me?
What does time have to do with justice and sustainability?
In this Future Lab, we go inward and outward in search of what we are passionate about, how we can become active and how we want to use our time.
Date: February 02 – 03
Location: BUND Guest House Halle-Saalekreis, Franzigmark 6, 09192 Halle/Alaune Halle
Shaping digital participation with confidence
How can participation formats be transferred to the digital space? What needs to be considered when converting digital formats without losing quality?
Date: February 22, 2024
Place: Online
Symposium on environmental class actions
Do environmental class actions lead to more environmental protection?
Symposium on the effectiveness of access to justice in environmental matters
Date: 16. – May 17, 2024
Location: Representation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt to the Federal Government, Luisenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin
Past events
Participation forum – Fourth association network for legal environmental issues
Participation forum for representatives of recognized environmental and nature conservation associations
Date: December 08, 2023
Time: 10.00 – 15.00
Location: Digital
Workshop: Make city life yourself: Get involved, shape Halle!
This workshop is about how we can influence what happens in the city ourselves. To this end, we are looking at various ways in which we as the younger generation can make our voices heard. There will be guests on site who will report on their involvement in various areas – whether hands-on or in local politics.
Date: 28.11.23
Time: 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: Marktplatz 20, 06108 Halle (Saale) (formerly GALERIA)
25th symposium – Climate protection in schools 2023
Annual event for Berlin teachers, educators, school administrators, environmental educators and others on the topic of climate neutrality in schools and how this can be integrated into lessons and everyday school life.
Date: November 15, 2023
Time: 14:00 to 18:30
Location: OSZ Kraftfahrzeugtechnik, Gierkeplatz 1, 10585 Berlin
Future Lab: We are Water defending itself! Water justice and sealing
In this Future Lab, we are looking at the water struggles in the East German lignite mining regions and possible solutions to counter water scarcity and sealing.
Date: 03.11.2023 – 04.11.2023
Time: Friday: 3 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Address: Die Ganze Bäckerei, Josephstr. 12, 04177 Leipzig
FaBiKli action day – networking and workshops on the harvesting of façade greening
Event for stakeholders on the topic of façade greening and biomass utilization with subsequent workshops and façade greening harvest festival together with pupils and teachers
Date: October 13, 2023
Location: Schiller-Gymnasium Berlin, Schillerstr. 125-127, 10625 Berlin
Don’t bypass people – tracing NDCs to (local) climate action
Based on ten studies conducted by local research teams in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Moldova and Kazakhstan, we are discussing major barriers for reaching the Paris Agreement and how to overcome them.
Date: October 25, 2023
Time: 3pm
Place: Online
Climate Competence Camp XI – Vision “Circular Society”
Free and certified training (SenBJF Berlin) for personnel developers & sustainability officers, trainers and teachers at Berlin vocational schools
Date: September 25 – September 27, 2023
Location: Environmental Education Center Berlin,
Kladower Damm 57, 14089 Berlin
Climate Competence Camp X – Supply chain, purchasing & reporting obligations
Free and certified training (SenBJF Berlin) for personnel developers & sustainability officers, trainers and teachers at Berlin vocational schools
Date: September 18 – 20, 2023
Location: Environmental Education Center Berlin,
Kladower Damm 57, 14089 Berlin
At first hand Vol. 2 – The new climate protection law: what is really needed!
We talk about the amendment to the Climate Protection Act with one of the main negotiators of the old law, Klaus Mindrup (SPD).
Date: September 11, 2023
Location: Digital
Workshop “What is the state of digital participation and EIA portals in EU Member States?”
Workshop with expert knowledge from Slovenia, Spain, Hungary, Estonia and Germany
Date: 5th of July 2023
Time: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm (CEST)
Execution: Online
Participation forum – Third association network on legal environmental issues
Participation forum for representatives of recognized environmental and nature conservation associations
Date: June 30, 2023
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
Implementation: Hybrid event – digital and on-site
in the Robert-Havemann-Saal in the House of Democracy and Human Rights, Greifswalder Straße 4, 10405 Berlin
Climate Visions Day – Paths to climate-neutral schools in Berlin!
Event for interested schools, politicians and initiatives.
Date: June 09, 2023
Time: 15:00 – 17:30 (admission from 14:30)
Implementation: bUm – Space for solidarity and togetherness
Berliner Energietage – Secret energy data of public properties
UfU is represented at the Berlin Energy Days and is organizing an expert dialogue on the legal and practical hurdles to energy monitoring in public buildings.
Date: May 22, 2023
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Realization: Ludwig Erhard Haus, Fasanenstraße 85, 10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg
Environmental justice in the neighborhood – shaping the future in a networked and participatory way
Hybrid congress on environmental justice in Berlin for representatives from politics, administration, civil society, research and practice.
Date: May 03, 2023
Time: 09:00 – 17:00
Implementation: bUm + online
Dialog forum: RevierUPGRADE. We. Now. Sustainable.
Event for stakeholders in the Central German and Lusatian coalfields who are committed to social and ecological structural change processes and sustainable urban and regional development.
Date: March 24, 2023
Time: 10:00 – 16:00
Realization: Media Campus Villa Ida, Poetenweg 28, 04155 Leipzig
Forum Environmental Legal Protection 2023
Event for environmental associations, courts, authorities, lawyers, trade associations and project developers
Date: March 02, 2023
Time: 09:30 – 16:00
Implementation: Online
24th symposium – Climate protection in schools 2022
Event for Berlin teachers, educators, school administrators, environmental educators and others on the topic of climate neutrality in schools and how it can be integrated into lessons and everyday school life.
Date: October 13, 2022
Time: 14:00 to 18:30
Location: bUM – Space for solidarity and togetherness,
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21, 10999 Berlin
Participation forum – association network on legal environmental issues
Event for representatives of recognized environmental and nature conservation associations on current legislative projects of the federal government.
Date: December 06, 2022
Time: 09:00 – 13:10
Implementation: Online and in presence
Symposium “Architecture + Biodiversity”
Event for architects, project developers, building owners, housing companies and other interested parties on the built environment as a place of cohabitation.
Date: September 27, 2022
Time: 09:00 to 17:00
Implementation: Online and in presence
You can find the documentation here
European workshop and competition for the (further) development of digital formal participation in the European Union
Event for those interested in digital participation in Europe
Date: September 16, 2022
Time: 10:00 – 13:00
Implementation: Online workshop
Participation forum – association network on legal environmental issues
Event for representatives of recognized environmental and nature conservation associations on current legislative projects of the federal government.
Date: June 24, 2022
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
Implementation: Online and in presence
European Innovation Lab – A European workshop and contest for the (further) development of digital formal participation in the European Union
We are looking for Young Professionals to work on digital participation platforms of the future! Apply now until the 16th of May to join an international team and take part at our workshops.
Registration Deadline: 16th of May
Conducted: Online
Associations workshop
An event on the new UfU study on representative action in Germany
Date: Friday, December 10, 2021
Implementation: Digital
Climate-neutral school buildings in new construction and renovation
We cordially invite you to the Online Stammtisch of the Landesverband für Energieeffizienz (LFE)!
Date: March 16, 2022
Time: 16:30 – 18:30
Implementation: Online
Associations workshop
An event on the new UfU study on representative action in Germany
Date: Friday, December 10, 2021
Implementation: Digital
Symposium – Why people are fleeing the climate!
A Climate Faces event at the Klimahaus Bremerhaven
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021
Implementation: On site
Participatory infrastructure planning
An anniversary event of the Ecornet network
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Implementation: Digital
Ecornet Future Forum – Urban development
Thinking the sustainable and healthy city together – strategies for a post-corona city
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Implementation: Digital
5 for the climate
5 for the climate is an international digital discussion and networking week dealing with civil society’s participation in climate action and political engagement for more ambitious climate policies and action from local to international level. 5 days with more than 20 events – thematic deep dives, panel debates, workshop formats and networking events.
Dates: June 14-18, 2021
Location: Digital
Fifth Aarhus Workshop
The last workshop about the implementation of the Aarhus Convention at European Union level before the seventh session of the Meeting of the Parties of the Aarhus Convention (MoP 7) in October 2021.
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2021
Location: Digital
Parliamentary breakfast on environmental legal protection
Presentation and discussion of the results of the current UBA research project “Legal protection in environmental matters”
Date: June 10, 2021
Location: Digital
35th German Nature Conservation Day
Germany’s largest nature conservation congress enters the next round. This year’s theme: “CITY-LAND-RIVER – What kind of nature do we want?”
Date: May 31 – June 02, 2021
Location: Hybrid (digital and on-site)
First hand | Vol.1
The new UfU discussion format starts in the style of a parliamentary evening with the question: Climate protection – what have we achieved, what needs to be done?
Guests: Hans-Joachim Schellenhuber, Klaus Mindrup, Petra Pinzler
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021; 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Location: Digital
Fourth Aarhus Workshop
The workshop about the implementation of the Aarhus Convention at EU level. Funded by the German Environment Agency (UBA) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Location: Digital
Stuttgart 21 symposium
The symposium on “Public participation in Germany – ten 10 years after the events of Stuttgart 21” is sponsored by Heidehof Stiftung GmbH (HHS).
Date: March 4, 2020
Location: Digital
Forum on environmental legal protection 2021
The symposium on legal protection in environmental matters
The event is being held in cooperation with the Federal Environment Agency.
Date: March 2, 2020
Location: Digital