Sustainability

The Berlin-Buch campus is currently in third place in the competition organized by Berlin’s state companies — but there are still four more weeks to catch up. The campus’s best first-time competitor was honored at the Bergfest.

Christian Panetzky is on a mission to make the Max Delbrück Center more sustainable. For our "We at the MDC" series, the new Sustainability Coordinator shares his ideas and how he plans to motivate colleagues to get involved.

The Berlin-Buch campus promotes sustainable and healthy mobility with new infrastructure and a wide range of activities and campaigns. The German Cyclists’ Association ADFC has now honored the campus’s commitment with its Gold Seal – alongside four other bicycle-friendly employers in Berlin.

Twenty-four municipal companies competed against each other in the “Who cycles the most?” competition, held in August and September of this year. Berliner Wasserbetriebe finished first, followed by BVG. Campus Berlin-Buch won third place this time around.

The Buch Campus successfully defended its title in the "Who cycles the most?" competition again this year. A total of twenty Berlin state companies competed against each other in August and September 2021.

On June 22, the councilors and officials in the Berlin district of Pankow presented the 2020/21 Pankow Environmental Awards.

In July 2020, Dr. Michael Hinz became the MDC’s first Sustainability Officer. In an interview for the “We at the MDC” series, he describes his vision of a sustainable MDC – and a sustainable campus.

More than 60 percent of researchers are willing to travel to conferences less often. Before the coronavirus struck, Verena Haage from the MDC conducted a survey on the travel behavior of researchers and their willingness to change it. This crisis now gives a glimpse of what the future of conferences could look like.

The equivalent of almost 28 times around the equator – this was the distance covered by participants in the cycling competition “Wer radelt am meisten?” (Who cycles the most?). Berlin’s senator for sport announced the winners at a ceremony on Wednesday at the Olympiastadion. The Buch campus took first place in the category “Best Company.”

Exactly 30 years after the founding of the Neues Forum, Jens Reich has called upon researchers to once again get involved in the political discourse. The full text of his speech can be found below. Reich’s speech and a concert by Wolf and Pamela Biermann kicked off a new event series, entitled “Breaking Boundaries,” at MDC Berlin-Mitte/BIMSB.