Student activities: Blog, Essay Competition and More

As education is central to the mission of the Chair, our team has launched several efforts to encourage students’ involvement in sustainable development and climate outside of their courses.

The Chair’s Team offers the following exciting student activities:

Students Blog @ the Chair
Original Student Challenges
Student-led podcast (please visit our podcasts section to listen to the episodes!)

More information on our activities will be shared here regularly.

7 November 2022

Energy Poverty

By Tereza Fabulova, Maria Kipp, Juahna Da Mota A Complex and Multidimensional Definition: In Europe, more than 30 million individuals […]

28 October 2022

Sustainable Batteries

By Mathilde Missoffe, Vojtěch Holík, Anna Emilie Wehrle Batteries are a means to store electricity. In the battery one or […]

20 October 2022

Eco-design in the EU: towards a greener internal market?

By Chloe Costa, Malena Ullrich and Maria Callewier From phones to washing machines, no product is safe from the European […]

7 October 2022

Too good to be true? Offshore wind and the European Green Deal

By Cindy VUAILLAT, Isaure VORSTMAN, Théo SEYGNEROLE The European Green Deal places high importance on offshore wind, and is prepared […]

12 September 2022

Introducing a new series : Mind mapping the European Green Deal

The European Green Deal is the European Union’s flagship strategy to turn Europe into the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. […]

11 July 2022

11 July 2022

Geoengineering: an incomplete solution to a poorly formulated problem

By Marin Pitavy This essay won 1st place at the Spring 2022 Chair’s Essay Competition on the topic of: “Why […]

11 July 2022

Why geoengineering to stay under 2 degrees Celsius should be stopped

By Patrick Oko Quaye This essay won 2nd place at the Spring 2022 Chair’s Essay Competition on the topic of: […]

23 May 2022

Discussion Highlights: Chair and Students’ Roundtable #4

“We need to challenge the system or we are reinforcing it”. Marlène Elias The fourth Chair and Students’ Roundtable was held on […]

8 April 2022

Why regulation matters: The reason the EU beats the US in the race to EVs

By Johan Bracht Electric vehicles (EV) sales largely surpassed the 2 million mark in the EU in 2021 (17% market […]

5 April 2022

For a European recycling industry: taking the opportunity of EVs batteries

By Léa Falco Opponents of electric vehicles (EVs) keep repeating it: EVs need six times more minerals than conventional vehicles[1]. […]