SustainMV 2024 Summer School - Day 7

The unique "Sustain MV" event is a joint project of six universities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern that are committed to sustainability: the universities of Greifswald and Rostock, HMT Rostock and the universities of applied sciences in Neubrandenburg, Stralsund and, of course, ours in Wismar. One week of online events was followed by one week of face-to-face events at the participating universities. The students from Azerbaijan, Brazil, Chile, China, Finland, France, Colombia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Rwanda, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Vietnam came to our UAS in Wismar for the start of the second week of face-to-face events.

It was their 7th day at the SustainMV Summer School, which runs until Friday. While the sun was burning hot in Stralsund, Greifswald, Rostock and on Hiddensee, 9.9.24 was the first day with constant drizzle, which also turned the show garden grey and challenged the participants as much as the hosts. Before the guided tour through the wet plant splendour, however, the teaching staff from the Mechanical/Process and Environmental Engineering department had invited the participants to an experimental lecture under the broad heading of "Sustainability". The tour of the biochemistry and technical microbiology laboratory and the laboratory for process engineering of biogenic raw materials also took place in ultra-modern - dry - rooms.

After the tight morning programme, the participants paid a visit to the Build Blue company. Vincent Marnitz, an alumnus of Wismar University of Applied Sciences, founded the start-up in Niendorf with the aim of using algae as a building insulation material or pillow filling, among other things. In the afternoon, the Hanseatic city and the Wismar campus were explored before the SustainMV entourage made a dinner stop at Haus 21 and then travelled on to Stralsund.