Prof. Dr. Reinhart Job talked to Prof. Dr. Handson Pimenta (center), coordinator of the Graduate School for Sustainable Use of Natural Resources at the Instituto Federale, and Prof. Marcelo Henrique Carneiro Camilo (right) of the International Office about opportunities for cooperation. (Photo: private)
Our dean dedicated his guest lecture on climate change to Lectures for Future. (Photo: private)
Job also gave two lectures on the campus in João Câmara, some 80 kilometers south of Natal. Among other things, he visited the new center for renewable energy systems. (Photo: private)
Especially the meeting with the student Helena, who attended the lecture in João Câmara, touched the dean very much. (Photo: private)
Steinfurt (6. Dezember 2019). The programme of his two-week cooperation trip included three block events that Job offered to Brazilian students and scientists. He dedicated his lecture on climate change to the Lectures for Future that the Scientists for Future had called for throughout Germany as part of Fridays for Future. In his further lectures Job talked about the problem of energy and resources as well as battery storage. The interest was great - full lecture halls and the questions of the audience clarified the relevance of his lecture topics.
"International cooperation is indispensable when it comes to solving the most pressing global problems: climate change, environmental degradation and global justice," emphasizes Job. "The time of national particular interests is over." With representatives of the graduate programme on the sustainable use of natural resources, our Dean therefore spoke about further opportunities for cooperation, including projects in the field of renewable energies, student and teacher mobility and teaching. Next March, the scientists plan to hold their first joint lecture block on the topic of climate and resources via video conference. "If the experiment succeeds, Brazilian students could participate virtually in our next summer school on renewable energies on the Steinfurt campus," explains Job.