Every second student at the University of Graz comes to class by bicycle. Almost half of the employees also use their bikes to get to campus. Even more climate-friendly mobility will be the focus of the Sustainability Day at the University of Graz on 10.10.2023: with a safety check for bicycles, an obstacle course for e-bikes and repair workshops for bikes.
What literature and theater have to do with sustainable mobility is the topic of another workshop. The Sustainable Mobility Challenge invites participants to actively seek solutions to current challenges in sustainable mobility. The best results of the competition will be awarded prizes. In addition, a free annual membership to TIM-Graz will be raffled.
The evening program of the Sustainability Day 2023 will take place in the Meerscheinschlössl. It will start at 5 p.m. with the presentation of the "Green Academia Award". This innovation prize will be awarded for the first time and honors those branches of science at the University of Graz that have been particularly successful in combining international business travel mobility, scientific publications and climate protection goals.
A panel discussion at 6:30 pm will conclude the day. The panel includes Jannis Linke (research associate and PhD student at the University of St. Gallen), Annina Thaller (post-doc researcher at the University of Graz), Wolfang Feigl (head of the department of transport planning of the city of Graz) and Maria Fanta (former architect and part of the organizing team of AUTO:FREI:TAG). They will discuss the question of how sustainable mobility needs to be transformed so that our society will embrace it even more. They will discuss how more environmentally friendly mobility is possible in everyday life, but also how travel can be made more sustainable.