Summer School Preparation

Dates

Kick-Off Meeting (online): 26 August 11-12 am via Webex-Link (see Email)

Summer School: 9 September – 11 September, 9 am – 6 pm, at Startblock B2 in Cottbus

Challenge Partners

You will be matched to a team of 5-6 people and one of the following partner organisation who prepare a design challenge for your team to work on:

• Sonocrete
• Arcelor Mittal Eisenhüttenstadt
  • Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6KMhhZEJtvoe4PwzwB3z2w
• DLR Insitute of low-carbon industrial processes

Further details on the challenge and team constellations will be announced during the Kickoff call 26 August.

Reading material

for preparation (voluntary, partially german language)

Decarbonization

Papers

• cement (nature)
• cement (EU)
• steel (OECD)
• steel (Journal: Energy Research & Social Science)
• heat pumps (DLR)
• ceramic (Ceramic Union)
• ceramic (UNIDO)
• STEEP Analysis (Prof. Roh Pin Lee, BTU)

General information sources

• IPCC
• Low-carbon economy
• Carbon Capture & Storage
• Life-cycle assessment

About Design Thinking

Design Thinking process stages:

1. Understand
2. Empathize
3. Define
4. Ideate
5. Prototype
6. Test & Iterate

Local transformation setting (Lausitzer Strukturwandel)

• Lusatia’s coal mining (Ger)
• Federal legal framework for regional transformation (Ger)

(most browsers can translate)

Logistics

Start: September 9th 9am at Startblock Cottbus

Arrive monday evening September 8th, so that we can start on tuesday morning without delays.

Workshop location:

https://startblock-b2.de/

Accomodations

Accomodation is taken care of by the organizer. If not already done, please inform us whether you need accomodation or not until August 4th, 11 am. Otherwise, we assume that you do not need an accomodation organised by us.

• Gästehaus der BTU Cottbus
• Jugendherberge Cottbus

Accomodations are booked until friday, September 12th so that you can participate in the CDI Summer Summit Dinner on thursday evening.

Agenda

Tuesday, 09.09.25	Wednesday, 10.09.25	Thursday, 11.09.25
Intro to topic & Design Thinking methodology Getting to know your team Preparations for site visits	Analysis Synthesis	Testing Iteration
Mittagspause	Mittagspause	Mittagspause
Site visits: DLR Sonocrete ArcelorMittal (Eisenhüttenstadt via Bus) Unpacking	Ideation Idea selection Prototyping Prototype Presentations	Pitch preparation Pitches at Summer Summit 16:35
Dinner	Dinner	Dinner @ Summit

 

Contact: decarbsummerschool@lausitz-science-network.de

See you at Cottbus :)

The Decarbonisation Summer School is a cooperation between LSN, CDI and BTU.