Science and society together for a sustainable future in the Upper Rhine
Making top-level research on sustainability in the Upper Rhine region visible to all is the goal of the Eucor-MobiLab Roadshow. In the cities of the five member universities of the trinational Eucor alliance (Universities of Freiburg, Basel, Strasbourg, Haute-Alsace and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) as well as in other cities in the Upper Rhine region, there will be activities in the field of knowledge transfer, science communication and research. Citizens have the opportunity to experience "hands-on science" and to interact with researchers.
The traveling venue for the multifaceted program is the MobiLab – the mobile participation lab of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It offers diverse participatory use options in the interior and the adjacent public space and is thus ideally suited to host exchanges between the scientific community and the general public. The objectives of the roadshow are to make an innovative contribution to top-level research with cross-border partners, to promote the exchange between society and science on sustainability issues, and to increase the visibility of research topics in the spectrum of sustainability research in the Eucor region.
The Eucor MobiLab Roadshow is funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts as part of the implementation of the Eucor Strategic Plan 2024-2030. The Franco-German-Swiss Upper Rhine Conference is also supporting the roadshow financially. The Eucor team at KIT, the KIT Centre Humans and Technology and the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change are organising the project.
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© Patrick Seeger, Universität Freiburg
Tour Dates and Locations of the Eucor-MobiLab Roadshow 2025
The 2-channel video projection BECOMING RIVER by Daniel Fetzner, Janna Häcker, Sebastian Lindlar, and Adrian Schwartz is on show during the ‘SHORTS’ trinational film festival of Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in the MobiLab daily from 12 noon to 8 pm. Admission is free. On 14 May at 6 pm, there will be an on-site introduction in the presence of the artists.
About the project: ‘The unconscious becomes tangible in dreams. Something inside us is stirred up. Not consciously, but in chaos. Images, language and physical experiences are storage media. The return of the repressed happens in free flow - memories, fears and cultural symbols overlap. BECOMING RIVER evokes the ghosts of our culture of denial along the course of the river Murg in the Black Forest.’
The installation was created as part of research by Daniel Fetzner, Adrian Schwartz, Janna Häcker, Simon Feller and Ephraim Wegner (http://becomingriver.com) at the Laboratory for Media Ecology. Over the course of three years, they researched life on, in and around the course of the Murg river and documented the goings-on of the river and its inhabitants.
- Bürgerpark
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- RPTU Landau Campus
Get ready for an exciting journey into the future of healthcare! The MobiLab will be visiting Basel and invites everyone to explore the cutting-edge world of ‘The Future of Medicine.’ The Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will showcase the latest advancements in operation technology from the Upper Rhine region, offering fresh insights into pioneering research.
The program has something for everyone, from kids to adults! You’ll have the chance to interact with the latest technologies, including 3D printing, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, laser technology, and robotics, in a fun and engaging way. Join the conversation with scientists, researchers and clinicians, and dive into hands-on activities that will spark your creativity.
- Theaterplatz
The MobiLab is coming to Freiburg under the motto ‘Sustainability finds the city’. Among other things, posters, surveys and a ‘science bench’ invite science and the public to engage in dialogue. The driving forces behind the event are projects from the Innovation Campus Sustainability (ICN), INTERREG projects, other research projects in the field of sustainability and the city of Freiburg.
On 24 and 25 July, the ICN project ZUKAMAS will be running the station: under the heading ‘Future-oriented climate change management for urban green spaces’, everything will revolve around the question of how green spaces and urban trees contribute to adaptation to climate change.
- Platz der alten Synagoge
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- Port du Rhin
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- La Fonderie
During Science Week 2025, the MobiLab will be visiting Karlsruhe with the theme ‘Urban nature of the future’.
At the ‘mobile participation laboratory’ in Karlsruhe, we offer you a variety of opportunities to think your way into the urban nature and blue-green urban infrastructure of the future: What ecosystems will do what for our urban life? How can we deal with the heat and increasing heavy rainfall events in cities? What is the role of animals in the city?
In addition to information and advice, there will also be plenty of opportunities to get involved: For example, finding and identifying insects - in a competition with a robot! Explore Friedrichsplatz from the perspective of non-human creatures! Develop ideas for the redesign of Friedrichsplatz and share them with others! Discover the blue-green infrastructure of the city of Karlsruhe using unsealing maps for the Friedrichsplatz area! Join us in a dialogue about what ‘urban nature’ could look like in the future.
- Friedrichsplatz