Networking & Exchange

A forum for knowledge transfer, mutual learning and interdisciplinary exchange

08:00
Konzerthaus Freiburg

LAUREATES SYMPOSIUM

Introduction

• Virginia Sonntag-O’Brien
  Board of Trustees, European Environment Foundation

08:15

Master Classes

“Social Media for small budgets”

• Benjamin Borgerding
  Digital Campaigner,
  Greenpeace Germany

Laureates' presentations

• Bruno Chareyron, France
  Improving people education about the radiological impact of the nuclear industry
• David Lowry, United Kingdom
  Nuclear power’s overlooked insecurity
• Pinar Demircan (on behalf of Arif Ali Cangi), Turkey
  Environmental challenge against private investments supported by government, e.g. nuclear energy
• Dipal Chandra Barua, Bangladesh and
  Bhaskar SenGupta, United Kingdom
  Solar Home System
• Vidya Sagar Devabhaktuni, India
  SKGS Biodigester projects
• Samson Tsegaye, Ethiopia
  Lighting Student Homes

10:00
short break & networking

10:15

Master Classes

“Donau Soja – the development of a European standard”

• Ursula Bittner
  Secretary General,
  Donau Soja Association

Laureates' presentations

• Sonam Wangchuk, India
  Himalayan Institute of Alternatives
• Bunker Roy, India
  Solar Mamas of the World
• Racheal Chagonja, Tanzania
  Youths' experience in the U-BAN campaigns; challenges and opportunities
• Heide Bergmann, Germany
  Learning to Shape the Future
• Elias Kindle, Liechtenstein
  Entrepreneurship in the emerging paradigm
• Heike Hoedt (on behalf of Wolfgang Scheffler), Germany
  Combating the current crisis of democracy – Initiative on the participation of the civil society

12:00
lunch break

13:00

Master Classes

“Cradle to Cradle - a holistic approach towards high quality production”

• Monika Griefahn
  Chairman Cradle to Cradle e.V. Germany

Laureates' presentations

• Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, Iran
  Bone marrow of children living near former U.S. base in Nasiriyah, Iraq is contaminated with toxic metals
• Sergiy Zibtsev, Ukraine
  Efforts on long-term reduction of catastrophic wildfire risks in the Chernobyl exclusion zone
• Marie-Luise Marjan, Germany
  Vietnam: Future prospects in times of climate change
• Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, Mongolia
  Mongolia – The world's clean water
• Michel André, Spain
  Listening to the Deep-Ocean: A global underwater noise monitoring initiative

14:30
short break & networking

14:45

Master Classes

The Divestment Movement - Establishing a decentralised network of campaign groups

• Leandra Praetzel
  Workshop trainer, 350.org

Laureates' presentations

• Julia Riedel, Germany
  Chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, are on the edge of extinction
• Hotlin Ompusunggu, Indonesia
  Healthcare incentives to protect orangutans and endangered wildlife in Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo
• Karen Aghababyan, Armenia
  White Storks in Armenia: the story of success and building sustainability
• Bertram Verhaag, Germany
  Film: CODE OF SURVIVAL or the End of Genetic Engineering
• Humberto Rios Labrada, Spain/Cuba
  Agro-biodiversity Management. Travelling from "Subsides to Business Models"

16:15

Laureates call for end to repression against environmental activists

18:30
Weinschlösschen Freiburg

Dinner
in the romantic historic cellar of the Weinschlösschen Freiburg

20:00
Konzerthaus Freiburg

PUBLIC EVENING LECTURE

Introduction

• Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
  EEF Board of Trustees; Co-Chair Club of Rome

Video message

• Bertrand Piccard
  Pilot, Solar Impulse
  “Around the world in a solar airplane”

KEYNOTE

• Felix Finkbeiner
  Founder Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation
  “Planting trees for a better world – how children save their future”
• Tristram Stuart
  Author, speaker, campaigner and expert on the
  environmental and social impacts of food waste
  “The cost of food waste”