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2025

Fentastic boggy topics

at UNI for children and youngsters

04/06/2025  Superpowers & satellite images – with these topics the Greifswald peatland scientists are adding some fantastic boggy taste to this year's Children's and Youth UNI at the University of Greifswald.

With two exciting lectures they take the young explorers on a journey into the fascinating ecosystem. On Wednesday 11 June at 10 a.m., Dr. Vytas Huth will explain “The superpowers of peatlands - how they protect our climate!” for pupils in grades 1-4. Karen-Doreen Barthelmes will show how to “Search for peatlands around the world with satellite images” on Thursday, June 12 at 9 a.m.

At the Children's and Youth UNI pupils in grades 1-10 can be a student for a day and attend a lecture at the university – free fronm charge but with registration. Find out more about the programme with free lectures and guided tours about science and research here.

RRR2025 register now

Preliminary programme online

03/06/2025  For the 4th conference on Renewable Resources from Wet and Rewetted Peatlands – RRR2025 from 23rd – 26th September 2025 at Greifswald, Germany, the preliminary programme is online. You can look forward to an exciting week with 2 key notes, 82 oral presentations, 66 poster, 14 workshops, 6 excursions and inspiring and surprising evening events. During the conference many workshops are offered for more room for exchange, discussion, collaboration or even training. Please register now via our registation platform, which is open until 15th August 2025! Please note that the number of participants for the conference and the workshop is limited. Stay tuned for the latest conference news on the RRR2025-website.

Acoustics, art and cardboard

All in this fresh issue of our NL

Installation "Superland" in front of the Berlin Futurium (Photo: David von Becker)

23/05/2025 The current issue of the Paludiculture newsletter tells how peatland is represented in the new “Land Use” focus of the Berlin Futurium and about new courses and training programmes on peatlands. It shares news about the new cardboard box of a large German DIY store produced with a share of paludiculture biomass. In the Paludiculture interview, scientist Alexander Drexler explains why he doesn't need to hear anything himself during bioacoustic monitoring. Also: newly launched projects, new publications and an overview of current events on peatlands, climate protection and paludiculture in the calendar. We hope you enjoy reading the newsletter and would be happy to receive feedback on it by e-mail to communication@greifswaldmoor.de.

Peatland & Futurium

Living plant installation "Superland"

Installation "Superland" in front of the Berlin Futurium (Photo: David von Becker)

22/05/2025  Just a few steps out of Berlin Central Station along the banks of the Spree and you can already see it: a living plant installation in front of the Futurium. Also integrated: Cattail and peat moss! They are intended to show that peatlands are important when it comes to land use.  A joint event organised by Futurium, the Joachim Herz Foundation and the Greifwald Mire Centre on 9 October 2025 will focus on how we currently use peatlands, what problems this causes, what opportunities they offer us for the future and what conflicts there are over land use on peatland. At the Futurium's Family Day, already on 4 October 2025, we will present interesting and entertaining facts about peatlands and climate protection interactively for adults and children to participate in.

Detailed information will follow soon on the Futurium and Greifswald Mire Centre channels. Until then, just drop by if you get the chance, perhaps during a stopover at the main railway station.

Paludiculture in a garden box

New pilot product!

Plant transport box from OBI made of 10% reed canary grass (Photo copyright: OBI)

25/04/2025  "Achieving mo(o)re together" - this is the motto under which OBI Group Holding, a member of the „Alliance of Pioneers“ of the toMOORow initiative, launched its first paludi pilot product in April: a plant transport box made from 10% reed canary grass. From the “field” to the OBI store, the box passes four different stations:

At the Swabian Donaumoos-Zweckverband, the reed canary grass is harvested on rewetted peatland in the Donaumoos. The company Fiber365 processes the paludiculture biomass into fibers using an innovative, environmentally friendly process. The LEIPA Group uses a mixture of these fibers, among others, to produce a cardboard base. Leopold GmBH Verpackungen then uses this to produce the actual cardboard.

This is intended for customers to transport small plant pots from the markets to their homes. In Germany alone, the DIY and garden market sells around 46 million plants every year.