Informational Trip:

GreenCity Freiburg + Munich 100% renewable

Trip Description

The focus of the mission are by coach to visit the two cities of Freiburg and Munich.

When it comes to solar power, GreenCity Freiburg plays in the first League. The prefix "Solar" takes this into all areas of life and part of everyday life:
Solares league stadium, plus energy houses with solar housing, solar Hotel, City Hall solar, solar modernization, solar plant, solar research, solar energy development plan, solar sludge drying, solar greenhouse.

The city of Munich, with its 1.35 million inhabitants, is pursuing an ambitious goal:
By the year 2015, the public utilities as much electricity from its own renewable-energy systems feed into the network, such as Munich consume all households. For this to be invested over a billion euros. By 2025, the entire electricity needs of the state capital to 100% will be met from renewable sources.

 

Program

Day 1:
Introductory Talk to the GREEN CITY Freiburg, visit the medieval city core and the internationally known model city district Vauban with the solar and energy plus house settlement of the solar architect Rolf Disch.

Day 2:
Tour of solar highlights in Freiburg: Solar modernization of high-rises, most environmentally friendly hotel in the world, award-winning headquarters of Solar-Fabrik Freiburg, solar football stadium. In the afternoon visit of an energy community, which covers 140% of their demand with renewable energies.

Day 3:
Visit a solar research institute in Lörrach, a PV system on a large green roofs in Basel and visit a solar farm on a former landfill. Bus transfer and accommodation near Munich.

Day 4:
Keynote address "Munich at 100% renewable" and bus tour with visits to projects in the fields of geothermal, photovoltaic, solar thermal, hydro and wind power.

Services

• All bus transfers to the trip from Freiburg
• 3 nights in a hotel
• All visits during the trip
• 4 x lunch, 3 dinners
During the mission you are accompanied by our expert speakers
Does not include the individual's arrival and departure.

Target groups

Politicians, entrepreneurs, administrators, engineers, architects, city planners and journalists.

Speakers

	Dr. Horst Hamm has been an environmental journalist for 30 years and has worked as an author for radio, television, newspapers, magazines, and books, the most recent of which is “Die Welt am Scheideweg. So retten wir das Klima.” Rowohlt 2008, and as editor for Globus, natur, and natur + kosmos.
	Jacqueline Lindner graduated as an organizer of cultural events and has coordinated performances, exhibitions, conferences, as well as public relations and media functions.
	Erhard Schulz has a degree in chemistry, is the Deputy Director of Innovation Academy, co-founder of the German BUND (Friends of the Earth) and was its state director for 24 years. He initiated the first European Solar and Eco Trade Fair in 1976 and was its organizer for 22 years. He is the state chairman of the Federal Association for Wind Energy e.V..
	Hans-Jörg Schwander holds degrees in teaching and engineering. He is the director of Innovation Academy and for 15 years has worked in the field of educational planning and specialized tourism. He organizes seminars and workshops on the subjects of sustainable city planning, solar architecture and renewable energies.

 

Organizer

Innovation Academy organizes specialized trips, excursions and seminars in the European three country region of Germany, France and Switzerland to destinations that include innovative companies that plan for a sustainable future, institutions and model projects. The central themes are renewable energies, city planning, new building modes, traffic, waste management, water economy, nature protection, agriculture and sustainable tourism.

Registration Form

Innovation Academy in cooperation with Atmosfair - a German certified organization – offers the opportunity to compensate the CO2 produced by your flight, thereby making a contribution for climate protection. When you book your flight, you may voluntarily choose this option, and support projects in developing countries where CO2 emissions will be saved. (www.atmosfair.de)

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