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Inova charity run: Students run for a good cause

This week, Swing e.V., the largest club at TU Ilmenau, is hosting a charity run. The money raised will benefit the Ilmenau food bank. In addition, the association is drawing attention to its biggest project, the Inovailmenau career fair on October 25 and 26, 2022.

TU Ilmenau/Eleonora Hamburg

Since 2018, SWING e.V.. an association of students of Industrial Engineering and Business Informatics at TU Ilmenau, has been raising money for charitable causes with the Inova charity run. Each participant of the charity run runs a few kilometers, which are then added together. If a total of 2022 kilometers are accumulated this year, the big fundraising goal, the sponsors, companies from the region, will donate a fixed amount to the Ilmenau food bank. If the participants run fewer kilometers, the Tafel will receive a correspondingly smaller sum.

Until the end of the week, students and employees of the university as well as interested parties can participate in the Inova.Spendenlauf. In order to enable as many interested people as possible to participate, the charity run will take place in a hybrid form. Flexible in terms of time and location, everyone can run individually for the charity run. The kilometers can be recorded with a smartphone or fitness watch and sent via e-mail to SWING e.V. by Sunday, 24 July.

On Tuesday, about 80 students gathered for the Inova.Spendenlauf in presence on the sports field of the TU Ilmenau - among them the media business students Jonathan, Tom and Jonas. Despite temperatures of more than 30 degrees Celsius, they were keen to support the Ilmenau food bank:

We don't mind the hot temperatures so much and would join in again any time to make a contribution to a good cause.

SWING e.V. provided water and ice for the runners. A sprinkler system, watering cans for showering off and the Inova mascot iMan, equipped with a water gun, provided cooling.

Marco Heilwagen, head of the Ilmenau food bank, was very pleased with the SWING e.V. initiative and thanked the students for their commitment. The money raised will benefit various projects at the Tafel:

Especially in these tense times, we as the Tafel have to do justice to all those in need of help. We are therefore very happy that there are people who support us.

Impressions of the inova.charity run

Contact

SWING at TU Ilmenau e.V.

- inova Project Team -