Summer School Preparation
Program Dates
Kick-off Meeting (online):
26 August, 11:00–12:00 (CEST) via Webex (see email)
Summer School: 9–11 September, 09:00–18:00, Startblock B2, Cottbus
Challenge Partners
You will work in teams of 5–6 on a real-world design challenge set by one of our partners:
- Sonocrete
- ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt
- Videos: YouTube channel
- DLR Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes
Teams and design challenges will be announced during the Kick-off on 26 August.
Preparation (optional reading)
Shortlist of highly relevant, mostly open-access resources to get you ready. 🆕 = newly added
Steel
- Addressing steel decarbonisation challenges (OECD)
- Decarbonising steel: social & technical pathways (Energy Research & Social Science)
- 🆕 Low-carbon technologies for the global steel transformation (Agora Industry, Wuppertal Institute, Lund University, 2024)
- 🆕 Klimaneutrale Stahlindustrie: Rahmenbedingungen (Germanwatch, 2023)
- 🆕 Green Steel Tracker (LeadIT – global project database)
Cement
- Cement decarbonisation (research article) (Nature)
- Decarbonisation of cement (EU JRC)
- 🆕 KEI: Zement/Beton resources (VDZ, Agora & more)
Ceramics
- Ceramic Industry Roadmap to 2050 (Cerame-Unie)
- How to decarbonise the ceramics industry (UNIDO)
- 🆕 Branchenausblick Keramik 2030+ (Stiftung Arbeit & Umwelt)
Methods & Frameworks
- STEEP / multidimensional technology assessment (Roh Pin Lee, BTU)
- 🆕 Beyond systems analysis: a multidimensional approach (Handbook chapter)
Cross-cutting & Overviews
- Industrial heat pumps – state of play (DLR / IEA HPT Annex 58)
- 🆕 KEI: Energy-intensive industries (topic hub)
- 🆕 Material World (Ed Conway – accessible overview of core industrial materials)
Regional transformation (Lusatia)
- 🆕 Batterierecycling als Beschäftigungsperspektive für die Lausitz (Otto-Brenner-Stiftung)
General information sources
Design Thinking
Design Thinking process stages
Local transformation setting (Lausitzer Strukturwandel)
(Most browsers can translate German pages.)
Logistics
Start: Tuesday, 9 September, 09:00 at Startblock B2, Cottbus
Arrival: Please arrive on Monday evening (8 September) to start on time Tuesday morning.
Workshop location: Startblock B2
Accommodation
Accommodation is organised by the host. If you haven’t told us yet whether you need a room, please email us as soon as possible.
- Gästehaus der BTU Cottbus
- Jugendherberge Cottbus
Rooms are reserved until Friday, 12 September so you can attend 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
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| Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
Site visits:
Unpacking |
Ideation
Idea selection Prototyping Prototype presentations |
Check-Out Summer School Process
further pitch preparation Pitches at Summer Summit |
| Dinner | Optional Dinner activity: DLR Science Spin @ Strandpromenade |
Dinner @ Summit |
Please arrive by Monday evening: there is a dinner meet-up at 6:30 at Startblock.
Contact
decarbsummerschool@lausitz-science-network.de
See you in Cottbus!
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The Decarbonisation Summer School is a cooperation between LSN, CDI and BTU.
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