Minister of Agriculture and Consumer Protection Silke Gorißen visited the University of Bonn's Sustainability Campus, Campus Klein-Altendorf (CKA). The talks focused on the University of Excellence's successes in researching renewable raw materials and the transdisciplinary focus of its research projects. In addition to sustainable and recyclable building materials and resource-conserving vegetable and fruit cultivation without peat, the PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence also presented its developments at the interface between agriculture and robotics.

Prof. Dr. Joachim von Braun from the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn and founding speaker of TRA Sustainable Futures took over the chairmanship of the scientific group for the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021. As chair, Prof. von Braun led a committee of twenty-five internationally recognized experts who prepared the summit.

The CABES (Capacities on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) project, which is based at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), strengthens the interfaces between science, policy and practice in Africa and supports networking with the international activities of the World Biodiversity Council.

Prof. Dr. Joachim von Braun, founding speaker of TRA Sustainable Futures, explains the importance of the global sustainability goals for global development.

The University of Bonn received the “National Award - Education for Sustainable Development” in 2023. The prize is awarded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Commission for UNESCO.

Prof. Dr. Zita Sebesvari, Deputy Director of the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), has been an honorary professor at the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Bonn since February 2023.

UNESCO has established the UNESCO Professorship on Human-Water Systems together with the University of Bonn in 2021. It is held by geographer Prof. Dr. Mariele Evers and contributes to the Global Sustainability Agenda.

At the two GreenBonn Hackathons 2024 and 2023, students from the University of Bonn and other universities in the region worked on creative solutions for implementing the climate targets in Bonn. For three days each, the students worked in teams to tackle the acceptance problem of grid expansion and the shortage of skilled workers in climate-related professions.

In the Transfer Center enaCom's ideas competition, various applicants compete and try to convince a jury with their pitches. In 2022, the competition focused on sustainability and awarded, among other things, a project to reduce food waste in juice production and a healthier sugar alternative.

The Transfer Center enaCom presented itself at the University of Bonn's first Sustainability Day in May 2022 on the Poppelsdorf campus. Together with the founding team of “Project Count” and the student group Enactus, enaCom provided information about opportunities for start-ups and transfer projects at the University of Bonn with a focus on sustainability issues.

Under the motto “Transforming the Economy!”, the Sustainability Hub, in which the University of Bonn is also involved, aims to help the Bonn economic region move towards climate neutrality and achieve the sustainability goals. The Transfer Center enaCom was also represented at the kick-off event in Bonn in November 2022.

The bio innovation park Rheinland visited the University of Bonn and its researchers for a cooperation exchange. Organized by the Transfer Center enaCom, members of the network were given specialist insights into some areas of research and a tour of the Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences' greenhouses in February 2024.

In 2022, enaCom was represented at the world's most important industrial trade fair with three start-ups from the University of Bonn. The spin-off Midel Photonics, which develops new solutions for machining processes that can be used in the field of climate-neutral mobility solutions, among other things, also received an award.

TRA Sustainable Futures has been represented at the University of Bonn's Science Festival for the last two years. Visitors were able to get to know the university's various transdisciplinary research areas as part of the TRAllye, a science rally for young and old.

Dr. Insa Thiele-Eich and Prof. Dr. Jan Börner on the subject of: "Climate change seen from above: What the view from space tells us"

More than 2,500 people were out and about in Bonn and the Rhein-Sieg district on 20 October 2023 at the 3rd Night of Technology to see unique technologies from 6 p.m. to midnight and ask questions to the experts on site. Under the motto “See, understand, and experience technology”, 49 stations opened their doors and welcomed young and old interested in technology. The University of Bonn also took part in the event initiated by VDI/VDE and inspired its visitors with robotics, geodesy and astronomy.

The Bonn Science Night, a joint project of the Science Region Bonn, has been offering exciting hands-on science since 2000. In addition to the University of Bonn, other universities, research institutes and scientific institutions from the Science Region Bonn are also involved.

With the lecture series, the TRA Sustainable Futures aims to initiate an exchange with high-calibre and internationally visible scientists working in academia or at the interface between science and politics.

The Public Interdisciplinary Lecture Series (PILS) is a joint Lecture Series of the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob and the TRA Sustainable Futures. It has an explicit focus on teaching. It is a series of lectures of up to 30 minutes explaining key concepts to people from other fields.