Green Campus

The Berlin-Buch campus promotes sustainable and healthy mobility with new infrastructure and a wide range of activities and campaigns. The German Cyclists’ Association ADFC has now honored the campus’s commitment with its Gold Seal – alongside four other bicycle-friendly employers in Berlin.

Scientific infrastructure is highly specialized and energy-intensive. During a kick-off event of the Helmholtz Competence Network for Climate-Friendly Construction in Berlin, experts from both the Helmholtz centers and the construction industry discussed how it can be designed to be climate-friendly.

The Berlin competition "Who cycles the most?" has come to a close, with the Max Delbrück Center and the facilities of Campus Buch took third-place. Approximately nine percent of all employees from administration and science participated in the competition, taking to their saddles.

Viola Ehrig is the green-fingered gardener who works hard to ensure it’s not only science and innovation that flourish at the Berlin-Buch campus, but trees and flowers as well. She and her colleague Steve Kossack provide stimulating surroundings for everyone at the science campus, including employees of the MDC.

The Buch Campus successfully defended its title in the "Who cycles the most?" competition again this year. A total of twenty Berlin state companies competed against each other in August and September 2021.

On June 22, the councilors and officials in the Berlin district of Pankow presented the 2020/21 Pankow Environmental Awards.

The Campus Berlin-Buch, together with the MDC location in Mitte, has successfully defended its title in this year's competition "Wer radelt am meisten?”. A total of 311 cyclists from Buch and Mitte took part.

In July 2020, Dr. Michael Hinz became the MDC’s first Sustainability Officer. In an interview for the “We at the MDC” series, he describes his vision of a sustainable MDC – and a sustainable campus.

More than 60 percent of researchers are willing to travel to conferences less often. Before the coronavirus struck, Verena Haage from the MDC conducted a survey on the travel behavior of researchers and their willingness to change it. This crisis now gives a glimpse of what the future of conferences could look like.

The equivalent of almost 28 times around the equator – this was the distance covered by participants in the cycling competition “Wer radelt am meisten?” (Who cycles the most?). Berlin’s senator for sport announced the winners at a ceremony on Wednesday at the Olympiastadion. The Buch campus took first place in the category “Best Company.”