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The European Sustainability Week

The "European Sustainable Development Week (ESDW)" is an umbrella initiative for the presentation and implementation of existing and new sustainable projects throughout Europe. It takes place once a year and was initiated by Austria together with Germany and France.

As an association, the RCE Stettiner Haff has been involved in the implementation of the Sustainability Week in Rothenklempenow and the Randow region for years. With the constantly growing network of partners, our offerings have become more diverse and multifaceted with each edition. The events and activities cover every conceivable format: Theater, music, lectures, guided tours, readings, cinema, seminars and much, much more. Our aim is to give visitors an understanding of sustainability issues in a pleasant atmosphere and to address the questions that concern them.

In recent years, numerous fun, inspiring and memorable events have taken place in this way. In the following, we would like to review some of them and give you a brief impression of our Sustainability Week program. Have fun browsing! We look forward to seeing you during European Sustainability Week 2024!

European Sustainability Week 2023

Together with our partners, we took part in the European Sustainability Week from September 20 to 30. With events throughout the Randow region and beyond, our offering this year was broader and more diverse than ever before.

We would like to thank everyone who took part in this international event of the sustainability movement. Only the exchange, the mutual listening and telling, sharpens the view for the big picture and provides an understanding of the important issues of sustainability. We are already looking forward to the next edition!

Carl Janke, Managing Director of Tlaxcalli GmbH. The company was one of 15 companies to take part in the Transformation Journey Economy organized by the Initiative Zukunftshandeln MV.

At the Sustainability Week kick-off event, participants were given an insight into the production of Tlaxcalli tortillas and visited corn fields and the production kitchen on site.

"Lets talk Water" - on the second day of the Sustainability Week, various rounds of dialog on the topic of water took place in Berlin. Among them was a delegation from Portugal, who were shown around the Weltacker Berlin as part of an Erasmus exchange.

To kick off Portugal Day on the 4th day of Sustainability Week, there was a musical performance. Dalida delighted the audience with a mixture of traditional Portuguese songs and her own pieces.

The guests from Portugal were introduced to the art of tobacco processing by Rothenklempenow residents.

Meanwhile, Portuguese specialties were prepared for the guests in the Weltacker House.

Portugal Day ended as it began, with music and singing.

As part of the Sustainability Week, guided tours of the Rothenklempenow farm were also offered.

Mr. Göpel, former director of the "Volkseigenem Gut Borken", looked back on the history of drainage in the region in the castle hall.

The Sustainability Week 2023 took place at the same time as an Erasmus exchange Germany/Portugal. The photo shows the Portuguese participants shortly before departure.

Ernst Paul Dörfler, ecochemist, author and EuroNatur prizewinner, read from his book "Aufs Land".

Mr. Dörfler's reading inspired the audience to engage in exciting conversations.

On the initiative of AG Mobilität Nordost Uckermark, a round table discussion on the topic of mobility in rural areas took place in the castle hall in Rothenklempenow.

Some of the results of the round table discussion on mobility. Conclusion: there are many options. Unfortunately, more people need to be reached in order to make a difference.

During the Sustainability Week, Rewilindig Oder Delta e.V. organized a bicycle tour from its association center in Glashütte to the Zalesie Education Centre in Poland.

Most of the participants on the bike tour were network partners of Rewilding Oder Delta. Seen here during a stop at the viewing platform in front of Zalesie.

Events focusing on water as a resource were held on two days during the Sustainability Week under the title "The water of us all". A landscape walk to the wild Borken moor took place under the direction of the Szczecin Lagoon Nature Park.

The first "Unser aller Wasser" day was concluded with the premiere of the play "Von Wassern, Wünschen und Wölfen" at Rothenklempenow Castle.

"Von Wassern, Wünschen und Wölfen" was performed again at the end of the second "Unser Aller Wasser" day in the Nikolai Church in Pasewalk.

The Sustainability Week was concluded with the Culture Day at Bröllin Castle. Tobias Keye presented the "Time for Water" residency program to visitors.

The participants of the residency program exhibited their results in Bröllin.

At the station curated by Lisa Wendelborn and Thomas Bendt, visitors were able to use the water conductivity of certain bodies to produce sound using a special instrument.

Sophia Regner exhibited various pieces from her series "Hydrophysis - at the level of knowledge". The staged photographs deal with the consequences of climate change.

The sustainability week was also mentioned in the local press.

The partners/supporters of the Sustainability Week 2023

Tlaxcalli GmbH

Work and Life E.V.

Nave Randow e.V.

ANU - Working Group for Nature and Environmental Education

Nature park on the Szczecin Lagoon

Pomeranian Farm Community

Schloss Bröllin e.V.

Engagement Global

Uta LöwenZahn

2000m²

Rewilding Oder Delta e.V.

Sustainability joint venture

Future Center MV

KDA

CoWorkLand

VCD

The sponsors of the Sustainability Week 2023

MV

NUE

Heidehof Foundation

Future action initiative

Mercador Foundation

Erasmus+

German Postcode Lottery

LV Socioculture MV

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

European Sustainability Week 2022

What a week! Theater, cinema, conferences, even on the Internet you could follow what was going on in Rothenklempenow between September 20 and 25. After the opening by Bettina Martin, the theater troupe "vollehalle!" gave us courage for the challenges ahead with their climate show on the Day of Opportunities. On the Day of Nature, various presentations gave us an insight into the activities of Rewilding Oder Delta and the Nature Park Am Stettiner Haff. On the Day of Village Shops, the film "Everything it takes" was shown. In the subsequent discussion with filmmaker Antje Hubert, the audience engaged in a lively debate about the value of shared meeting places in the village. On Community Day, however, the main focus was on the Reidenz program, which is to be continued in 2023 as well as the European Sustainability Week. The Portuguese delegation from Odemira and the surrounding area enjoyed the presentations and excursions and a number of concrete ideas and in-depth contacts were established. For example, a World Field and ResidenZ program is now to be set up in Portugal. All in all, a week for more sustainability in many areas and, with over 300 visitors, a great networking event for the stakeholders.

We would like to thank everyone for their active participation and support for this great and exciting week. Every day was unique and so many different people came together to talk, learn and do together about the pressing issues of our time.
Special thanks go to the Postcode Lottery Foundation, NUE Foundation and the Erasmus + program of the EU.

Here are the impressions photographed by Brais Palmas and a video documentary about the week and "Time for Future", the exchange with the Odemira Portugal region.