EU project TRANS-SAHARA launched in Tunis in April 2025
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TUM Nexus Lab launches the new EU-project TRANS-SAHARA with the first in-person consortium meeting in Tunis in April 7-11 2025
Past events
Smart Circular Cities Symposium, 8.10.2022, Vorhoelzer Forum, TUM
The Smart Circular Cities Symposium, organized by the MIT Club of Germany in partnership with BMW, the BMW Foundation’s Responsible Leaders and RISE Cities Programs, the Technical University of Munich, and Circular Munich, aimed to inspire collective understanding and a common vision around what it means to make Munich a circular city.
The day was filled with insightful speakers, opportunities to engage on panel discussions, pitches from startups active in the field of circularity, and an interactive workshop to co-create a vision for circularity in Munich. The programme in short:
| 08:30 – 09:00: Arrival and registration | ||
| 09:00 – 09:15: Welcome & Opening: Wolfgang Ungerer (President, MIT Club of Germany (MITCG)) & Dr. Daphne Gondhalekar (Nexus@TUM & Director of Sustainability MITCG) | ||
| 09:15 – 09:45: Framing the Topic: Relevance of a Circular Approach to Cities. Speaker: Dr. Susanne Kadner (Acatech) | ||
| 09:45 – 10:05: Circulate Products & Materials. Speaker: Dr. Jens Thiemer (BMW) | ||
| 10:05 – 10:30: Break | ||
| 10:30 – 10:50: Circular Cities Eliminating Waste & Pollution. Speaker: Dr. Magash Naidoo (ICLEI) | ||
| 10:50 – 11:10: Thriving neighbourhoods. Speaker: Julia Okatz (SYSTEMIQ) | ||
| 11:10 – 12:30: Regenerate Nature & Circularity Compass. Speaker: Paula Mertens (Circular Munich) | ||
| 12:30 – 13:15: Podium Discussion: Key Circular City Potentials. Moderated by: Dr. Matthias Ballweg (UnternehmerTUM) | ||
| 13:15 – 14:30: Lunch / Networking | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00: Start-Up Presentations: Market Place of Ideas | ||
| 15:00 – 16:00: Podium Discussion: Matching Key Potentials & Start-Ups. Moderated by: Niclas-Alexander Mauß (CirculaTUM) | ||
| 16:00 – 16:30: Break | ||
| 16:30 – 18:15: Workshop: Forging a joint Vision of Circular City Munich. Facilitated by: Dr. Eduardo Noboa (BMW Foundation RISE Cities), & Lina María Echverri-Roeder, Margarita Cejudo Perdomo, Paula Mertens & Elisabeth Hadley (Circular Munich) | ||
| 18:15 – 18:30: Summary and Closing: Wolfgang Ungerer & Dr. Daphne Gondhalekar | ||
| 18:30 – 19:30: Drinks Reception at the Forum |
1st Nexus@TUM workshop held on 03.02.2022 at Alte Post at TUM