Charles Cozette is studying for a Master’s degree in Bioeconomy at the TUM Straubing Campus. He recently participated in the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference (COP27) with the Brazzaville Foundation. In the interview, he talks about his impressions and experiences at COP27. And he talks about a meeting with the Princess of Morocco.

Olivia Mrozinski is studying towards a Bachelor’s in Technology of Biogenic Resources at the TUM Straubing campus. She and two classmates recently became three of 15 EU Youth Ambassadors for Bioeconomy. Their objective is among other things to sensitize the European Commission for sustainable transformation in society and the economy.

A systematic review paper on consumer response to bio-based products has been published by members of Chair of Marketing and Management of Biogenic Resources at TUM Campus Straubing. The following Share-link provides free access to the full text of the paper on ScienceDirekt until November 27, 2022.

The number of seats in the bus is limited to 50 participants. Therefore, registration is required. The principle first-come-first-served applies! The registration also includes the seats for the (German language) Presidential Event in the Audimax and the TUM Sustainability Symposium in Garching. A separate registration via the official portal for these events is not required!

Around 200 participants from all over the world learned about current developments in the bioeconomy at the three-day symposium “Key Technologies in the Bioeconomy – A Global Bioeconomy Alliance Conference” at the TUM Campus Straubing (TUMCS) for Biotechnology and Sustainability at the end of September. The organisation of the conference under the slogan “KTB2022” was taken over by the TUMCS under the leadership of Rector Prof Volker Sieber and Prof Bastian Blombach.

Reverion enables an emission-free future and ensures the success of the global energy transition through the optimal use of biogas.

Around 40 students spanning from 7 to 11 course of Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium visited our Chair (Biogenic Functional Materials) at TUM Campus Straubing. Their curiosity was amazingly fresh.

In the frame of the European Climate Pact and the Bürgerstiftung Straubing, the Chair for Biogenic Functional Materials participated in the KinderUni Straubing initiative with a lecture about “How Nature produces its own light”.

“40.3 Million people worldwide are in slavery”: With this sentence, Dr Alexander Trautrims began the opening lecture of the newly launched Campus Colloquium. Dr Alexander Trautrims is an Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management and leads the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab Business & Economies programme.

A team of scientists from across Europe have been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Dalton Division Horizon Prize, celebrating the most exciting chemical science taking place today. Among them is the the team of Prof. Rubén Costa, head of the Chair for Biogenic Funcitonal Materials at TUM Campus Straubing.