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Conferences - Seminars - Colloquia
5th German-Brazilian Symposium on Sustainable
Development at the University of Stuttgart
Sustainable environmental strategies were focused on
the 5th German-Brazilian Symposium on Sustainable
Development from July 18th to July 22th 2011 at the
University of Stuttgart, completing the German-Brazilian
Year of Science 2010/11. More than 230 participants
from science, research and industry took part at the
event, including more than half of Brazil. On the focus
of the 5th German-Brazilian Symposium on Sustainable
Development –Climate and Resource Protection- were
current environmental issues, such as the use of
renewable energies and the proceeding climate
warming.
The event was managed by the professors Jörg Metzger
and Uwe Menzel from ISWA in cooperation with the
Baden-Wuerttemberg Brazil Center of the University
of Tuebingen and Baden-Württemberg International
(bw-i). After welcoming speeches by Prof. Jörg Metzger
(organizing team Germany) and Prof. Dieter Bredemeier
(organizing team Brazil), Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ressel
(Rector of the University of Stuttgart), Prof. Stefan
Laufer (Rector of the Brazil Center at the University
of Tübingen, Sueli Pavani (Brazilian Consulate General
in Munich) and Assistant secretary of state Dr. Simone
Schwanitz (Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of
Baden-Wuerttemberg), Prof. João Steiner, an astrophysicist
at the prestigious University of São Paulo
(USP) and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
hold the opening lecture on excellent research in
Brazil.
institutions, universities and ministries.
Sociologist Professor Ortwin Renn, Professor at the
University of Stuttgart and Director of the Interdisciplinary
Research Unit on Risk Governance and
Sustainable Technology Development at the International
Center for Cultural and Technological Research
on sustainable development, gave the final lecture on interaction
between environmental protection, economic
prosperity and social justice.
A variety of excursions to scientific interesting
destinations in the region completed the bilateral
event. The participants visited e.g. The Fraunhofer
Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology
(IGB) in Reutlingen, which does research on the
production of energy (biogas) from algal biomass, the
in-plant process water and wastewater treatment plant
of a brewery, the municipal wastewater treatment plant
in Bönnigheim, which is designed for wine wastewater
and the ultra-modern drinking water treatment plant
of the Association of Lake-Constance-water supply.
The conference program touched a wide range of topics,
ranging from issues of renewable energy, regional
development and environmental technology on to
water, wastewater, soil, waste up to the issues of
climate and sustainable forest management and other
priorities. Prof. Dr. Uwe Menzel and Daniel Neuffer
from ISWA gave a lecture in the session „Bilateral Programs“
on the cooperation projects with Brazil over
the past ten years. The session was completed by
presentations from Wolfgang Wolf from the Environmental
Engineering Platform of the National Association
of Baden Wurttemberg Industry (LVI), Hartmut
Reichl from the BW Ministry of Economics and Prof. Dr.
Sergio Roberto Arruda from Senai, Florianopolis.
Excursion to WWTP Bönnigheim (viniculture wastewater)
The positive response from participants at the final
event demonstrated the success of the symposium
as well as the great interest for environmental topics.
The German-Brazilian Symposia take place in a two
year rhythm, alternating between the two countries
Germany and Brazil. Host of the next one, in 2013, will
be the Universidad Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA)
in Santarém, Brazil.
Overall, more than 50 presentations and 100 posters
presented recent research results on the main issues.
During the conference there was also an industrial
exhibition and a Project and Cooperation Forum with
the participation of Baden-Württemberg International.
This is designed to promote scientific exchanges and
concrete projects, as well as merge donors, funding
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