Agenda

Dr. Ulf Stein, Senior Fellow and Coordinator Water Studies at Ecologic Institute, is responsible for the institute's water research division. His work focuses on the sustainable management of water resources, especially with regard to environmental planning and adaptation to climate change. In presentations by Prof. Matthias Barjenbruch, Chair of Urban Water Management at TU Berlin and Dr. Marcel Schneider, Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology e.V., we will learn more about the future of water reuse in cities and what opportunities plasma technology offers in this field.

Dr. Bettina Rechenberg is head of the Department II “Sustainable Products and Production, Circular Economy” of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Besides being a member of the advisory board of the BLUE PLANET Berlin Water Dialogues, she will moderate a break-out session on Water Energy Management - Treatment plants as energy source. Tosca Zech, project manager of the engineering company Dr. Resch + Partner, will speak about the Energy-intelligent wastewater treatment plant Schwarzenbruck and her experiences from the operation of the plant. The project was funded by the Environmental Innovation Program of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment and the UBA.

Prof. Sven-Uwe Geißen holds the Chair of Environmental Process Engineering at the TU Berlin. In this position he was responsible for the coordination of various projects in the field of Circular Water Economy like WavE or HighCon. In this session Prof. Geißen will moderate a discussion around the development of innovative processes for the reuse of industrial wastewater up to the recycling of the concentrates, because the wastewater of one process can be the resource of a completely different one.