simul+Innovation Day Zittau

The Saxon State Board of Trustees for Rural Areas (SLK) and the ^{simul+InnovationHub}of the Saxon State Ministry for Regional Development (SMR) are organizing the ^{simul+Innovation}Day in Zittau together with the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Fraunhofer Plastics Center Upper Lusatia.

The event is being held under the motto "Providing impetus for the region in transition: business, science, politics and society" and is taking place in the run-up to the 23rd Saxon State Harvest Festival. In four thematic blocks "Energy, Circular Economy, Construction and Mobility", examples of the results of cooperation will be presented.

LRÄ/district cities, municipalities, associations/clubs/foundations, chambers, companies/trade/freelance professions, science/research, students/trainees, citizens

from 12:00 pm

• Registration

1:00 pm

• Welcome to the simul⁺Innovation Day
• Greetings (Stephan Meyer, District Administrator of the district of Görlitz; Thomas Zenker, Mayor of the large district town of Zittau; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch, Rector of the Zittau-Görlitz University of Applied Sciences)
• Keynote speech "Establishment and development of new business areas/models in Lausitz"(Andreas Huck, Lausitz Energie Verwaltungs GmbH)

1:50 p.m.

Driving forces for the region in transition: economy, science, politics and society" - Key technologies for structural change in Lausitz

• Heat supply of the future (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch, Rector of Zittau-Görlitz University of Applied Sciences / Institute for Process Technology, Process Automation and Measurement Technology; business partner: Christoph Steffan, Managing Director of AQVA Synergy GmbH)
• Green technologies for the circular economy(Prof. Wolfgang Nendel, Deputy Head of the Chair of Lightweight Structures and Plastics Processing, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology; business partner: Andreas Huck, Lausitz Energie Verwaltungs GmbH)
• Building - yesterday, today and tomorrow (Prof. Dr. Hubertus Domschke, Professor at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg / Lausitz Technology Center GmbH LAUTECH Hoyerswerda; business partner: David Köhler, studio heyho! - Designstudio in Dresden and Nuremberg)
• New vehicle systems and their requirements for the mobility of tomorrow(Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Scholz, Head of the Fraunhofer Plastics Center Oberlausitz - Fraunhofer IWU; Business partner: Dipl.-Ing. Verkehrssystemtechnik (FH) Jens Wolff, authorized signatory of vci VerkehrsConsult Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH Dresden)

2:40 p.m.

• Coffee break

3:15 p.m.

• Panel discussion

  with the Saxon State Minister for Regional Development Thomas Schmidt and one representative from each of the aforementioned subject areas

16:15 hrs

• Snack - "Freund Blase" (street food & catering)

12:30 to 16:45

• Innovation market / networking

5:00 p.m.

End of the event

Moderation: Uta Georgi

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Free participation in the event can be booked online in the period from 11.07.2022 to 23.09.2022: Book participation

Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Peter-Dierich-Haus
Theodor-Körner-Allee 16, 02763 Zittau