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To enable the employees and students of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar to regulate the room temperature independently to the legally prescribed 19°C, thermometers have been received in the dean's offices of the faculties as well as in the secretariats of the departments and central facilities. You will receive brief instructions on how to mount the thermometers correctly.

Starting November 15, 2022, energy-saving measures will be implemented on telephones and printers at Bauhaus University Weimar. The functionality of the devices will be maintained.

Ab November setzt die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar ihre »Weimarer Stadtgespräche« fort und rückt in den nächsten Monaten ein hochaktuelles Thema in den Mittelpunkt: die urbane Wärmewende.

Students in Thuringia who have received benefits under BAföG for at least one month from October 2021 to March 2022 and whose BAföG notice states that they no longer lived with their parents will be paid the heating allowance of 230 euros on November 4, 2022. The legislator has defined the criteria and thus pursues the objective of paying the heating allowance to students who have incurred heating costs themselves.

The Bayern 2 podcast »IQ - Science and Research« looks at why fresh air supply and heating in modern open-plan offices is challenging and how the indoor climate affects our health and ability to concentrate. Dr.-Ing. Hayder Alsaad from the Chair of Building Physics at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is working on solutions. His research in the climate laboratory is presented in the article (from minute 12:55).

Steven Mac Nelly is the new central contact person for sustainability issues at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Since 1 September 2022, he has been responsible for, among other things, assessing the energy footprint of university buildings.

In July 2022, the Thuringian Wissenschaftsministerium called upon all Thuringian universities to prepare for an energy shortage and to reduce their energy consumption 2022 by 15 to 20 percent. How Can Energy Consumption Be Reduced at Higher Education Institutes?

How can we successfully reduce our energy use, both to save costs and protect the climate by releasing less CO2? These are among the questions that will be asked by 150 guests from science and the industry from across Europe during the BauSIM Conference at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar from 20 to 22 September 2022.