Sustainable Materials Webinar

July 27, 2021

Scientific Program

Keynote Session:

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Prof. Dr. Rashmi Gujrati

Professor & Principal Dean (SW) Tecnia Institute of Advanced Studies

Title: Eco Friendly: Polymer Materials for Sustainable Development

Biography:

Professor  & Principal 
Dean (SW)
Tecnia Institute of Advanced Studies 
New Delhi, India 
 

Abstract:

 

Today around the world big issue is plastic damaging our environment. To stop the use of plastic all the country is working very hard and focusing on to go eco-friendly products and giving awareness from different ways not to use plastic. To control the plastic issue. Countries are doing the recycling of plastic. In present environmental issues and depletion of petroleum oil increasing so it has become the most important material and necessary to bring an environmentally friendly product. And also becomes most important for academic and manufacturing companies to generate an eco-friendly product or green material. Mostly Eco-friendly products are mixtures of the base of bio or biodegradable. In fact in this filed important successes have found by physicists engineers and chemists who have a good experience and they are familiar to develop the environmental accountable product.

 

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Thomas Baldauf

BA Informatikmanagement, University of Vienna, Austria

Title: how to leverage modern eco-friendly materials in an educational context

Biography:

Thomas Baldauf has worked in digitalization in the last 12 years in different roles and environments, always passionately exploring new emerging technologies. After graduation of a higher secondary technical school in Austria, he started his bachelor’s degree in 2005 at the University of Vienna. In 2008 he joined the Startup Softtec Austria as Project Manager and Programmer for Food Automation Systems running entire Food Processing Sites. In 2011 he finished his Bachelor and joined the Austrian Education System as an IT-Teacher. In 2012 he became head of the biggest secondary school of Austria. In 2016 he was promoted by the Ministry or Education as main coordinator of IT-Teachers of a particular school type. In 2021 he will have his own company.

 

Abstract:

Facing global warming and the general waste of materials, upcycling, reusing and disintegration of existing products is key for a saver planet and a saver environment. If we only learn this as adults, there is way more time needed for training or changing of the behavior. To scale this problem on a global scale, new approaches in teaching and education are needed, so we can educate young children without fear, but with joy, with new technologies and saving our planet.