The University of Hohenheim was very impressed that values such as climate protection, resource conservation, and sustainable living are important to you. Thank you for your participation!
The call for applications
How do you feel about using fossil fuels to make everyday things? Crude oil is one of the most important fossil raw materials and can be found, for example, in shower gel, chewing gum, clothing, heating oil, gasoline or diesel, candles, and plastic lunch boxes.
And what is the problem with that? The climate crisis is presenting the world with a whole new set of challenges. Through the use of fossil raw materials, "greenhouse gases" stored by nature are released again and pollute the environment. We must avoid this in the future. In addition, fossil raw materials such as crude oil will soon be depleted. We urgently need alternatives.
Here at the University of Hohenheim and in many other educational and research institutions around the world, people are putting their heads together to find such alternatives for fossil raw materials and to process them in such a way that they can be used just as well to make the same things as, for example, scarce petroleum.
What ideas do you have for tomorrow's world, where fossil fuels are finite? How do you envision living in a resource-efficient future, what does your city of the future look like? Green from top to bottom? No cars, only bicycles, buses, and trains? And they all run on solar energy? There are no more plastic to-go cups, but how do we drink something on the go? What is tomorrow's clothing made of? Will it again be made out of flax, hemp, and wool or out of bioplastic fibers?
This is how the competition went
- Paint a picture. Create a collage. Write a letter, a story, ... Shoot a video. Craft a world in a shoebox.
- You could participate as an individual or as a group.
- A jury made up of professors decided who could count themselves among the lucky winners.
This was what you could win
1st Prize: € 300
2nd Prize: € 200
The jury
A jury of professors decided who could count themselves among the lucky winners.
