Social and Ecological Student Groups

Hello everyone!

We are the BUND campus group and we are looking for you! Our group currently has a about ten active members, mainly biologists, but also students from other disciplines such as medicine, molecular medicine and sustainable corporate management. We are always seeking active support for our group. Regardless of field of study or professional background, everyone is welcome to join us in our various activities.
Our main goals as a group focus on active nature conservation, environmental education and public outreach. 

We also organize afternoon programs on various nature topics for children of primary school age, but we want to expand our repertoire and offer workshops for different target groups around our talking tree Berti. For this we are looking for active support. 

With our projects, which will be introduced briefly below, we aim to create a connection between the people of both our university and the city of Ulm with nature and thus making the university a more attractive and sustainable place. Many of our projects also take place in close cooperation with the university’s botanical garden.

Current projects:

• We’re involved in establishing an educational forest trail with several stations around the university and the botanical garden. One of the stations is our Talking Tree Berti.
• Talking Tree Berti: In cooperation with the Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology we will equip a tree with all kinds of sensors with the idea of visualizing the consequences of climate change on the well being of the tree. In future we will offer workshops and webinars related to these topics for kids and adults using this cool new technology. For more information, visit Berti on instagram: @talking_tree_berti.
• In cooperation with the State Office For Property and Constriction and ecologist Prof. Dr. Manfred Ayasse we are involved in the ecological upgrading of the university campus (e. g. maintenance of a nesting hill of ground-breeding wild bees and insect hotels).
• Excursions and community activities in a private setting (e.g. observing fireflies in the evening, preparing and eating ostrich eggs, going to the cinema).
• Regularly, we also reach out to kids by providing a kids activity at the annual summer fest in the botanical garden or by organizing an afternoon for kids with different nature-related activities.  
• Raised-bed gardening: We built raised beds on the university campus where students can now communally grow fruits and vegetables. 
• Digital city rally: This summer we developed a digital city rally that gave schoolchildren the opportunity to explore different areas of the city of Ulm in this summer and to deal with exciting questions and tasks on the topic of nature and environment.
• Planting/maintaining raised beds on the townhouse terraces and offering botany classes for interested listeners.

Accomplished projects:

• As a spontaneous reaction to the logging measures in the course of the construction of the new Centre for Trauma Research we organized the “Letzter Karnivald der Tiere” vigil.  Dressed up as animals and plants we sang “Karl der Käfer” on the thinned area, which was accompanied by a ukulele.
• We are particularly proud on the planning and execution of the panel discussion “Uni im Grünen – Eine Farce” in February 2018, in which the discussed the master plan for the university and university clinic for the year 2050 with local decision-makers from both politics and science (clinic management Prof. Udo X. Kaisers, head of the city planning officer Tim von Winning, University President Prof. Dr. Michael Weber, Member of the Landtag Jürgen Filius (Green Party), members of the local council and many more). Filius gave us the promise to support the ecological upgrading of the university, which happened immediately.
• Digital city rally: This summer we developed a digital city rally that gave schoolchildren the opportunity to explore different areas of the city of Ulm in this summer and to deal with exciting questions and tasks on the topic of nature and environment.

1st Representative: Hanna Wachter, 2nd representative: Cora Carmesin
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Due to the corona pandemic, some of our activities and meetings are online. If you’re interested, please send a non-binding e-mail. We will then get in touch with you.