A greener campus for everyone

As part of the Klima-N project, the TU Ilmenau offered a new practice-oriented teaching and learning format during the summer semester of 2025: The interdisciplinary project aimed at optimizing waste management on campus brought together researchers from the fields of sustainable product development and communication, as well as staff from the Department of Buildings and Technology. The goal was to use a specific problem to teach students the skills needed to develop sustainable solutions and communicate them effectively to relevant stakeholders.

Once a year, TU Ilmenau takes part in CITY CYCLING: Every year, professors, staff, and students actively participate in the Climate Alliance campaign, form teams, and give up their cars for three weeks to benefit the environment and their health. 

In the spring and fall, the motto around town and at TU Ilmenau is: Let’s clean up! Equipped with trash bags, gloves, and sturdy shoes, students and staff work together to collect plastic packaging, bottles, and much more that have been carelessly discarded along roadsides, near ponds, in parking lots, and in bushes.
More information about the trash collection campaigns

At the first Spring Flower Bulb Festival in October 2024, students from the Sustainability Club planted the TU Ilmenau logo in the meadow at Oberer Ehrenberg. The crocuses, winter aconites, and other early-blooming plants are intended to serve not only as a visual delight but also as a source of nectar for bees in the spring, when food sources for the insects are still particularly scarce. Further early-blooming plant initiatives are planned.