Travelling University 2020 - Sri Lanka

Dear all we would like to share our outcomes and experiences we have made during our project in Sri Lanka.
You are more than welcome to join our final presentation which will be held online. To join the meeting, just click the following link and the virtual room will open automatically.
See you there!

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Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld (UCB)
Institut für angewandtes Stoffstrommanagement (IfaS)

A big THANK YOU to our sponsors: the Freunde der Hochschule Birkenfeld, the Kreisparkasse Birkenfeld and one private sponsor who financially supported our work!

Freunde der Hochschule e. V. Umweltcampus Birkenfeld
Kreissparkasse Birkenfeld

It was quite for a while, but we would like to show you some impressions of our final presentation. It was hard work with little sleep, but we made it at the end and are proud of our teamwork. Nevertheless, the hardest part was just to come, we had to say goodbye to our newly won friends from Sri Lanka.
Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld

We would like to give you a little insight of our project which we have been working on the last week with our partner University Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. So far, we had the chance to visit Rajarata Tiles, what is a Sri Lankan tile manufacturer as well as we could visit MAS Kreeda, what is a worldwide producer of garment. Our teams were analyzing the raw material flows within the company as well as they were investigating the status quo of the technologies which are being used. As a result of that the team members are looking for suggestions to replace technologies to more efficient ones, what will have a positive impact for the companies themselves as well as for the environment.

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld (UCB)

Yesterday we finally got to know the teams from Sri Lanka and started with the project after a short introduction. We tried to bring each other to the same level and prepared together for the visit at the first company MAS KREEDA Mihintale.

Yesterday we had the opportunity to visit the German Embassy in Colombo. There we presented our project and got an input to the work of the embassy in Sri Lanka. Thanks again for the nice reception. 🙂

We finally arrived in Sri Lanka! Before we start working we would like to introduce you to the last group: the finance team. Vanessa, Rudi and Viktoria.

Now our technical team from the UCB Vy, Aon, Amel, Wissal and Mouna.
By the way, we are going to three companies in the area of Mihintale: one is a company producing tiles, one is producing textiles and the last producing products made from corn. – We are really excited to get to know them!

This is our Material Flow Management Team; part of it is Morimi, Frank, Lauren and Iuliana (and a couple more missing)
Again a fun fact about our members: overall we are 20 Bachelor and 16 Master students studying nine different study paths.

Hey this is us, the Orga team from Germany we will keep you up to date in the next couple of weeks about what is going on and what we are doing. We are Neil, Klara, Véronique, Niklas, Lena and Katharina.
⭐️Some fun facts about the TU members: we are 21 students from the Umweltcampus Birkenfeld but originally from 9 different countries (USA, Brazil, Morocco, Vietnam, Germany, Thailand, Japan, Russia, Nepal) and further 15 students from Sri Lanka. We are 64% female 👩‍🎓 and 36% male 👨‍🎓students.

Second Meeting with the members of the TU Sri Lanka – the different groups showing their interim results.
There are just 16 more days to go! 🤩🤩🤩 We are very curious to get to know Sri Lanka, our fellow students and to start with the work!
In the next couple of days before departure, we would like to share with you the group members for the different teams. So, stay tuned.

Please find the english version below.

Nicht mehr lange und wir machen uns auf den Weg nach Sri Lanka um vor Ort und in Zusammenarbeit mit Studenten der Rajarata University of Sri Lanka Nachhaltigkeitskonzepte für dort ansässige Unternehmen zu erarbeiten.
Die meisten Kosten werden von der Partneruniversität getragen, nichtsdestotrotz sind wir auf der Suche nach Menschen und Unternehmen, die dieses Projekt finanziell unterstützen möchten.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der angehängten Datei, bei Fragen stehen wir jederzeit gerne zur Verfügung!
Vorab vielen Dank!!

It won't be long before we set off for Sri Lanka. Here we have the chance to work out a sustainability concept for local companies on site and in cooperation with students of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.
Most of the costs are covered by the partner university, but we are nevertheless looking for people and companies who would like to support this project financially.
For further information, please see the attached file. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!
Many thanks in advance!