Nutrition and Climate – Impact on Sustainable Development
We welcome researchers, interested participants, and the public to the annual Network Meeting on November 15th, 2024, of the BayWISS Joint Academic Partnership Life Sciences and Green Technology at Campus Kulmbach, University of Bayreuth. The historic town of Kulmbach has long been considered a center for food, culinary enjoyment, innovation, and networking in the food industry—not only since the establishment of the young and innovative campus of the University of Bayreuth. In 2024, the annual network meeting of the BayWISS Joint Academic Partnership Life Sciences and Green Technologies will take place at the Kulmbach Campus. This year, doctoral students and researchers will engage in discussions on the topic of "Nutrition and Climate - Effects on Sustainable Development" in dialogue with experts from research, business, and politics.
Climate change affects food systems at multiple levels, including changes in soil fertility and crop yields, nutrient composition and bioavailability in food, pest resistance, and the risk of malnutrition. The critical interactions between food systems and climate are evident in how current food systems contribute to more than a third of all greenhouse gas emissions while extreme weather events and climate variability exacerbate tensions. Food production for human consumption is one of the main causes of environmental damage worldwide; yet billions of people suffer from undernourishment and nutritional deficiencies. To address this imbalance, it is necessary to evaluate current food systems at all levels and consider making changes. Through technological, scientific, and political efforts, significant additional impacts can be achieved.
This year's network meeting will be held in English in order to provide the right stage and range for this significant topic, which affects the global community.
You can look forward to the following program.
Take advantage of the unique opportunity to get to know the Kulmbach campus and its research groups and to connect with them.
We look forward to welcoming you to our networking event.
Interested? Click here to register!
We look forward to meeting you!
The BayWISS Joint Academic Partnership Life Sciences and Green Technologies connects researchers in Bavaria across all types of higher education institutions and offers a strong platform for the development of sustainable solutions to pressing global problems.
All professors, doctoral candidates and students at Bavarian universities of applied sciences and universities who are interested in a collaboration and/or doctorate in the field of application-related life sciences and the goal of sustainable developments are cordially invited to contact us.
Your BayWISS Joint Academic Partnership Life Sciences and Green Technologies
PROGRAM
Program for November 15, 2024:
from 10:30 am: Registration and reception (Universität Bayreuth, Fakultät IV, Fritz-Hornschuhu-Str. 13, Kulmbach - Alte Spinnerei, 2nd Floor)
11:00 am: Guided tour Kulmbach Campus (Prof. Dr. Corina Vlot-Schuster and Prof. Dr. Christian Fikar) (Meeting point at registration desk!)
12:00 am: Network lunch (Mensateria, Campus Kulmbach)
01:00 pm: Opening by Prof. Dr. Janin Henkel-Oberländer (Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health, Uni Bayreuth)
01:15 pm: Welcome by Prof. Dr. Corina Vlot-Schuster (University of Bayreuth) and Prof. Dr. Jörg Ewald (Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences), Spokesperson of the BayWISS Joint Academic Partnership Life Sciences and Green Technologies
01:30 pm: Presentations by BayWISS doctoral candidates
- Omer Shlomi (HSWT / LMU): An assessment of the adaption of wheat, barley and maize cultivation under dry conditions in Franconia, bavaria.
- Mitchell Mahachi (HSWT / TUM): Critical success factors for implementation of vertical farming in African mega cities. A case study of Lagos.
- Daniel Lenz (HSWT / LMU): Influence of water management on GHG-balances along a landuse-intensity gradient in fen peatlands.
- Anis Dzankovic (HSWT / Uni Bayreuth): Interventions in seed supply chains - case of smallholder tomato producers in Ethiopia.
03:00 pm: Honoring of the completed doctorates in the BayWISS Joint Academic Partnership Life Sciences and Green Technologies
03:15 pm: Networking and coffee break
04:15 pm: Panel discussion (in German) on the topic: Nutrition and climate – impact on sustainable development
Panel Moderator: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Machold (Professor of Quality and safety of food of animal origin and food law, HSWT)
Panel Members:
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Baldermann (Professorship of Food Metabolome, Uni Bayreuth)
- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tina Bartelmeß (Junior Professor of Food Sociology, Uni Bayreuth)
- Prof. Dr. Özlem Özmutlu (Professor of Food Technology and Processing, Alternative Proteins, Director of the Institute for Food Technology, HSWT)
- Rainer Prischenk (Bereichsleiter Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Regierung von Oberfranken)
- Sabine Wittmann (BayWISS doctoral candidate, Vertical Farming, HSWT)
05:15 pm: Closing Remarks
REGISTRATION
Registration is open until 25th October 2024
Has the registration deadline already passed?
If you are still interested in participating, please contact the coordination office (life-sciences.vk(at)baywiss.de) - in certain cases it is still possible to register later!
How to find us
Traveling by Car:
Kulmbach can be reached via the B85 and B289, which can be reached from Munich via the A9 and A70.
Parking spaces: The Kumlbach campus has no designated parking spaces for visitors. It is possible to park in the nearby paid parking garage or along the streets.
Traveling by Train:
- Travel option 1:
- Departure: 08:20 Munich main station
- Arrival: 11:09 Kulmbach station
- Number of changes: 2
- Duration: 2h 50min
- Transport: ICE 882, RE 30, agRB 24
- Travel option 2:
- Departure: 08:52 Munich main station
- Arrival: 11:38 Kulmbach station
- Number of changes: 1
- Duration: 2h 43min
- Transport: ICE 1112, RE 38
- Travel option 3:
- Departure: 09:55 Munich main station
- Arrival: 12:23 Kulmbach station
- Number of changes: 1
- Duration: 2h 28min
- Transport: ICE 800, RE 38
Travel options based on DB information, dated 02.09.2024, DB
Koordination
Treten Sie mit uns in Kontakt. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Fragen und Anregungen zum Verbundkolleg Life Sciences und Grüne Technologien.
Dr. Ute Nazet
Koordinatorin BayWISS - Verbundkolleg Life Sciences und Grüne Technologien
Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
Am Staudengarten 7 | Gebäude H7
85354 Freising