Full program

KKL-JNF
greenXchange
For a sustainable future
Seminar Program
Germany, August 15th – 23rd 2012
Jüdischer Nationalfonds e.V. - Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (JNF-KKL)
Berlin, August 2012
www.greenxchange.de
Welcome Address
Dear participants of the second greenXchange seminar,
After having a very successful first seminar in Israel last year I am happy that you were
successful to organize the second seminar – this time in Germany.
The same seminar model should exist also in the future: Establishing every second year a new
group – having one seminar in Israel and the second one in Germany (Europe) with the help of
the greenXchange veterans.
Many of the last year participants continue this year and those who cannot participate are still
interested to be involved – absolutely a good sign!
This year we are also expanding the program to other European countries with the ultimate
goal to make it a European – Israeli program based on a core group containing Germany and
Israel.
I welcome the German and Israeli newcomers to the full program and the new participants from
the other countries to part of the program – to taste it, get enthusiastic and come next year to
the full seminar in Israel with some new members from their countries.
JNF-KKL as the leading environmental organization in Israel has a desire to develop a strong
Young Leadership programs and has high expectations from our greenXchange program. I
hope that during this seminar we will be able to come up with some meaningful
themes/projects in which greenXchange participants will be active while having an impact on
environmental issues in Israel as well as in Germany (Europe).
Special thanks to Judith Strasser who is responsible for the Young Leadership activities at KKL
Israel for her devotion to this program, to Annette, the greenXchange coordinator in Berlin, who
has been the glue during the entire year, to the entire content group who put so much effort in
organizing this event and to all other members who were active in setting up and/or being
active in establishing the web site, facebook, giving presentations and other activities in
Germany, Israel and Prague.
I wish you a very successful and joyful seminar with good results for the future of the
environment and the greenXchange program.
See you soon
Schaul Chorev.
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greenXchange seminar in Germany 2012
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greenXchange
For a sustainable future
Schedule: August 15th – 23rd 2012
Wednesday, 15 August: Frankfurt
Arrival in Frankfurt
02:00pm – 04:45pm
Juwi Holding AG in Wörrstadt:
The Juwi Holding AG is a company for renewable power supply facilities. In its early days Juwi was a
two-man company. Today Juwi has over 900 employees and 900 million € revenue. Many big solar
parks are built by Juwi, for example Waldpolenz Solar Park.
02:00pm – 03:00pm: Lecture on Juwi and renewable energies
03:00pm – 03:45pm: Visit of the wind park
03:45pm – 04:45pm: Visit of the headquarters
(Meeting point: Clean Energy & Mobility Center)
05:30pm – 07:30pm
Bioweingut Lorenz (organic winery): vineyard, wine cellar, wine tasting
Welcome session: Introduction of newcomers, presentations and quiz on Germany
Thursday, 16 August: Frankfurt
09:00am – 13:30pm
giz German Society for International Cooperation
German government agency with 17000 employees which works worldwide on sustainable
development, energy, urban planning and climate. giz mostly consults foreign governments and
implements projects, eg in the Palestinian territories on sewage, waste treatment and water. giz works
together with the Israeli government (through the development agency Mashav) on sustainable
development in Ethiopia.
Lunch at the giz canteen.
03:00pm – 06:00pm
Dottenfelderhof
The Dottenfelderhof is an organic farming model and a historic site looking back on more than 1000
years of agriculture.
-> General tour and special tour on cultivation and research
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Friday, 17 August: Hamburg
07:58am - 11:35am: ICE 674 Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – Hamburg Hbf
01:00 pm-03:00pm
HafenCity - Europe’s biggest inner-city development project
HafenCity covers an area of 157 hectares, making it one of the most prominent inner-city waterfront
development projects in the world. Based on a new concept for urban living, it will increase the size of
Hamburg City by 40 percent (Hamburg has a population of approx. 1.78 million, the
Hamburg Metropolitan Region 4.3 million). Between the historic Speicherstadt warehouse district and
the River Elbe a new city with a cosmopolitan mix of homes, service businesses, culture, leisure,
tourism and commerce is emerging. Structures typical of a port will be retained. The development is
being managed by HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, a 100-per cent subsidiary of the Free and Hanseatic
City of Hamburg. The time-frame for development of the entire area extends to circa 2025. HafenCity
is already rated as the model project for international waterfront and “new downtown” development.
-> Lecture at Sustainability Pavillon and guided tour
03:00pm – 04:30pm
Environmental Harbour Tour
(walking distance from HafenCity)
08:26pm: Lighting candles for Shabbat
Sunday, 19 August: Hamburg/ Berlin
09:00am – 12:00pm
Bustan – JNF-Chaverim Biblical Garden in Norderstedt:
Inaugurated in April 2011 as part of the State Horticultural Show
09:00 – 10:00 Walk through the Stadtpark (city park) and introduction
10:00 – 10:30 Chaverim-JNF Bustan – the biblical garden
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:00 The Organisation as Organic System – a Nature Experience in the Stadtpark
02:06pm - 03:46pm: ICE 1595 Hamburg Hbf – Berlin Hbf
Future Session:
Discussion on the future of greenXchange; guest from Israel: Dr. David Brand, KKL-JNF Chief
Forester; Head of Afforestation Department; responsible for international projects
Monday, 20 August: Potsdam
11:00am – 12:30pm
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK:
PIK addresses crucial scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate impacts and
sustainable development. Researchers from the natural and social sciences work together to generate
interdisciplinary insights and to provide society with sound information for decision making. The main
methodologies are systems and scenarios analysis, modelling, computer simulation, and data
integration.
11:00am – 12:00pm: Lecture on „Eating Habits and Climate Impact“ (30min for discussion)
12:00pm - 12:30pm: Guided tour across Telegrafenberg
Afterwards: Lunch at the canteen on Telegrafenberg
Einstein Tower
(incl. in tour across Telegrafenberg; adjacent to PIK)
The Einstein Tower is an important example of expressionist architecture, built by Erich Mendelsohn
as an astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park. It houses a solar telescope which
supports experiments and observations to validate (or disprove) Albert Einstein's relativity theory.
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03:00pm – 04:45pm
Meeting with BMU State Secretary Ms Ursula Heinen-Esser
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
03:00pm: Presentation of greenXchange
03:15pm: Presentation of Staatssekretärin Ursula Heinen-Esser
03:45pm: Discussion and brainstorming about initiatives and cooperation possibilities between
Germany in Israel with the active involvement of greenXchange
05:00pm
JNF-KKL Green Business Circle
Lecture by Michael Strauss (son of the founders and former CEO of Strauss Group Ltd., Israeli food
products manufacturer); location: Raue LLP law firm at Potsdamer Platz (we will start with a visit of art
exhibition); meeting with JNF-KKL Green Business Circle
(walking distance from BMU)
Tuesday, 21 August: Berlin
Renting Bicycles for the whole day
10:00am – 11:30am
Life e.V. ‚Mehr Wege als Einweg’
NGO, environmental project involving ethnic minorities
01:00pm – 04:00pm
Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Change (InnoZ)
(at Gasometer in Schöneberg)
- Visit of the EUREF-Campus
- Micro smart grid: photovoltaics, wind energy
- eCar Sharing
- Test driving: eCar and pedelec
On the way: Tempelhof Airport (closed in 2008)
05:00pm
Prinzessinnengarten
Urban farming in Berlin Kreuzberg
Wednesday, 22 August: Brandenburg
09:30am – 04:00pm
Vattenfall in Lausitz
Vattenfall is Germany’s fourth biggest electricity supplier.
09:30am - 12:30pm: Opencast mining Welzow-Süd and recultivation (incl. wineyard)
01:00pm - 01:45pm: Lunch at the canteen of the power plant Schwarze Pumpe
01:45pm - 04:00pm: Power plant Schwarze Pumpe and Oxyfuel pilot plant
05:00pm - 07:00pm
Spreewald UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
Exploring the Spreewald by canoes.
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Thursday, 23 August: Kassel
07:34am – 10:14am: ICE 595 Berlin Hbf – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
Documenta in Kassel
world’s biggest exhibition on contemporary art, taking place every five years
11:15am – 01:15pm: Guided tour in English (max. 15 participants)
11:30am – 01:30pm: Guided tour in English (max. 15 participants)
“When You Walk Inside You See That It Is Filled with Seeds
OTTONEUM & KARLSAUE
This dTOUR addresses the seed as a nucleus of life on this planet and as a site of economical and
political struggle. Art as a form of human practice shares like concerns. The projects met on this
dTOUR promote the parallel histories of seeds, soil, and food, and deals with the problems of genetic
manipulation and economic monopolization.”
03:38pm – 05:16pm: ICE 579 Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Frankfurt (M) Flughafen Fernbf
(Airport)
07:35pm: Departure to Tel Aviv
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Biographies: greenXchange team
Dr. Schaul Chorev, JNF-KKL – Main Emissary
Schaul Chorev is the main emissary of JNF-KKL in Germany.
He is an electronic engineer (Technion - IL) with an MBA (University of Oregon – USA) and PhD
(University of Pecs - Hungary) in Business Administration and worked for many years for a defense
organization in R&D and later in different marketing positions.
Schaul was a docent in different colleges in Israel, is married and has three children and lives in
Nahariya at the northern part of Israel.
Contact details:
German mobile: +49 (0)160-4722882
[email protected]
Annette Heimann, greenXchange-coordinator in Berlin
Annette holds a position as managing director at the Asia-Pacific Form Berlin. Her team is already in
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the preparations for the 9 Asia-Pacific Weeks Berlin (APW) in June 2013 which will focus on the
theme Smart Cities. In 2011 she held the position of project manager and co-organized the Business
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and Science Forum on Food within the 8 APW, placing special emphasis on sustainable production
and the organic market in Asia.
Annette holds a Diploma in Political Science from Free University Berlin and additionally studied Art
History and Hebrew. With her academic focus lying on international relations, trade and development,
she has worked for international organizations in Israel, South Africa and Cambodia, such as GTZ
private sector promotion in Johannesburg and Phnom Penh, International Institute for Energy
Conservation Africa and the DED Civil Peace Service in Phnom Penh.
After Annette lived in Jerusalem 2008/09, she initiated greenXchange together with Shira Dreifuss
(formerly Lazarovich). The project has not only been a great tool for maintaining relations with Israel,
Annette also considers the initiative a very special opportunity to foster bilateral cooperation on the
level of young leaders of the civil society. And this is happening in an area which is crucial for future
development and which has a high potential for knowledge transfer: our environment.
Contact details:
German mobile: +49 (0)171-4712585
[email protected]
Judith Perl-Strasser, KKL-JNF Israel, greenXchange-coordinator in Jerusalem
Judith was born in Vienna/Austria and made "Aliya" to Israel in 1994. She has been working with KKLJNF Israel in the Jerusalem-headquarters ever since in different departments and various positions.
Currently she holds a position in the European Department where she is responsible for 6 European
countries and Young-Leadership Development in Europe.
Judith has a B.A. in German, English and Russian from University of Vienna and is a trained
translator. Working with KKL-JNF has enabled her to unite some of her biggest passions in life: her
love for Israel, her desire to help develop Israel further for the good of all people who live here, her
grave concern about the environment and our future in a regional but also global context and her
dream to be a part in building bridges, engaging in dialogue, enhancing cooperation and fostering
relations between Israel and other countries.
Judith is married with 4 children and lives in Jerusalem/Israel.
Contact details:
Israeli phone: +972 (0)2 6707521
Israeli mobile: +972 (0)50 6497008
[email protected]
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Biographies: greenXchange participants
Moran Abraham
Moran Studied studied in Arabic language and literature and Education (BA) at The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem .Currently she is a student for Master of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Moran interns as a social media specialist for website management and newsletter production at The
‘Heschel’ Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership –Local Sustainability Center. Among
other interests Moran is a green building consultant on behalf of the NGO "Green Course" and the
initiator of the environmental committee of the "Knesset" Parliament. She is also working on future
collaborations with governmental offices.
Conact details:
Israeli phone: +972 (0)524244298
[email protected]
Haran Bar-On
Haran is an entrepreneur in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy, with a focus on
behavioral change programs and community building. For example, he is currently initiating several
programs which aim at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the household and commercial sectors.
He has a background (2010-2012) in environmental policy consulting, working in think-tank in Berlin
called Ecologic Institute. In his previous line of work, he focused on researching societal transitions
and participatory processes for fostering more sustainable behavior at the local level. In 2010, Haran
graduated with a MSc in Environment and Resource Management, at the Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam. In 2008, he completed his BA in Geography and International Relations at the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem. Haran also has background in education, group facilitation and in training. For
example, between 2005-2009 he worked as a coordinator and a guide in Etgarim, a non-profit
organization working with ‘special-needs' populations in education and rehabilitation programs,
through challenging sport activities. In addition, he trains rappelling instructors and workers working in
high elevations. Haran was born in Kibbutz Revivim and was raised in Be’er-Sheva, Omer and in
Jerusalem.
Contact details:
Israeli phone: +972 506934344
[email protected]
Ram Barankin
Ram graduated Law and Business school in 2007 from the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzlya (IDC)
and worked for two years as a legal intern and a lawyer in private law firms. In 2010, Ram had
graduated complementary studies in Biology and started his M.Sc. studies in Marine Ecology at the
Tel-Aviv University. The title of his thesis is "Marine Policy: the precautionary principle in law and
science". He his currently developing an environmental policy model while using the case of "oil drill in
the Mediterranean Sea" as a case study.
During 2010-2011 Ram served a year as the Tel-Aviv University's chapter director of the
environmental NGO "Green Course" . Upon graduation from the "Green Course" program for
environmental leaders, Ram was appointed regional director at "Green Course". Ram is also
working as an instructor at The Garden for Zoological Research at the Tel-Aviv University, as a TA at
TAU and as freelancer lawyer.
Contact details:
Israeli mobile: +972 (0)544660005
[email protected]
Rona Ben Zion
Rona is a Project Manager in the Corporate Finance team at BDO Israel Consulting Group. Focus on
the financial consultancy services for Cleantech companies and Environmental issues. Among her
main projects is a strategic consulting for Park Ariel Sharon (Hyria). Rona is currently studying for her
masters in Environmental Studies at Tel-Aviv University, focusing on the environmental effect of
different energy resources for transportation in Israel. Rona has previously worked as an economist at
Zenover Planning. Her team worked on sustainable development and strategic planning for both the
private and public sectors, focusing on agricultural, water management and renewable energy
projects. Her main project at Zenover was studying the impact of producing oil shale and the
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subsequent economic evaluation in the regional council Mate Yehuda in Israel. Rona holds a BA in
Economics from Ben Gurion University. As a BA student Rona participated in the ERASMUS
European exchange program in Madrid, Spain, living and working there for a year. Rona was born and
raised in Ramat Efal, Israel and her hobbies include hiking, running and photography.
Contact details:
Israeli phone: +972 (0)52 8818087
[email protected]
Eran Benyamini
Eran was born and raised in Israel, currently living in Jerusalem), 27 years old. He just finished his
bachelor studies in Environmental Health Sciences and is starting his master degree. He has been a
green activist in Green Course for the past three years while in the last year he coordinated the activity
of Green Course in one of four academic institutes in Jerusalem. In the last year he together with other
activists have pushed Jerusalem’s municipality towards improving garbage solutions, such as
recycling and primal separation of our garbage into two separate streams (wet & dry), by protest and
mostly by discussion and advocating for with all the different ranks in the municipality of Jerusalem. He
believes that activism is the way to reach the change we want and so he thinks that we should raise
awareness for taking an active part in our own environment. His interest in greenXchange is to meet
people from another country and learn from their experience and their dealing with environmental
issues. He expects this seminar to open his eyes for new issues and solutions for concerning
environmental issues and strengthen those who take part in this seminar to continue pushing to a
green change. He wishes us all a prosperous week, a great time together, new friendships and
collaboration in the near future.
“Love our world and think that heaven is here on earth and it’s up to us to keep it that way.”
Other things he likes doing are photography, sports, studying new things, new projects and more.
Contact details:
Israeli phone: +972 (0)509297093
[email protected]
Katrin Annika Buchmann
Katrin is originally from Frankfurt am Main, where she went to a French-German bilingual school. She
also grew up in Quebec and Sri Lanka. After high school, she first studied at the University of St
Andrews in Scotland, from 2003-2007, graduating with a double MA in International Relations &
Modern History. She then did an internship gap year with stations in Berlin at the German Council on
Foreign Affairs (DGAP), the European Union delegation in Washington DC, the EU Institute for
Strategic Studies in Paris and then the German government development aid agency (GIZ). She
continues to work for the GIZ, now in an external consultant capacity, currently working on new modes
of global governance (“messy multilateralism” or “Gx groupings”) such as the BRICS, IBSA and the
G20. In 2008-2009 she did a second Masters degree, this time at the College of Europe in Bruges, in
EU International Relations & Diplomacy. The College of Europe is a specialist institution on
international law and diplomacy funded by the European Commission and the Ministries of Foreign
Affairs of the 27 EU member states. Since January 2010 she is a PhD researcher at the University of
Cambridge, in the POLIS Institute (POLitics & International Studies). Her research concerns the role of
EU member state embassies and the EU delegation in Beijing and Washington DC in lobbying the
Chinese and US government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sign an international follow up
treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.
Contact details:
German mobile: +49 (0)15737310237
[email protected], [email protected]
Dikla Cohen
Dikla graduated from Plant Sciences in Agriculture with Nature Conservation and Landscape
Management (B.Sc.Agri) in the Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University. This is a special study
program with focus on ecology, natural resources and open space preservation. She is currently
doing her Masters degree in botany at the Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University. Her Masters
project deals with silicification in plants.
Dikla has participated in various educational projects. First of all, she is a teaching assistant in Plant
biology course. In her past she was a member of youth group called Green Horizons (JNF) and also
was a youth guide. The educational process in Green Horizons based on hiking with minimal means
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as an individual and as a part of a group. Her experience as an instructor taught her that there is great
importance in educating the children to love the earth and nature and through those to teach the
importance of leadership.
Contact details:
Israeli mobile: +972 (0)54 2226904
[email protected], [email protected]
Inga Dirks
Inga Dirks submitted her PHD thesis about ‘Land use, plant functional traits and carbon sequestration
in the Judean Foothills’. The work was performed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of
Agriculture, Food and Environmental sciences, Rehovot. Her work analyzed effects of plant
biodiversity on productivity and ecosystem functioning with the overall aim to increase the transfer of
atmospheric carbon to the terrestrial biomass and soil organic matter. Particularly carbon fluxes under
extended droughts were analyzed, because these processes become increasingly relevant in the
context of global change.
Between 1998 and 2005, Inga studied “Physical Geography” at the University of Trier with strong
focus on global change issues, such as ‘Grazing and land degradation in the central Ebro Basin (NE
Spain)’ and ‘Glaciers, tree line and natural hazards in high Mountain ecosystems (Alpes)’. In
2001/2002 she joined the UN trainee program in Nairobi, where she worked on effects of land tenure
systems on land degradation in various agricultural ecosystems. Inga cooperated on the partnership
program between the Kenyatta University and Trier University, seeking for sponsors to invite a group
of 10 Kenyan students to Germany, and organizing field trips. Inga was born in Wesel (NRW,
Germany) and learnt to speak English (fluently) and Spanish, French and Hebrew (less intensively).
Her reports about the greenxchange seminar 2011 in Israel can be found on the website and in the
Journal Neuland (German Journal of the KKL). She further represented the group at the KKL
Leadership conference in Prag. Her interest in greenXchange mostly refers to nature conservation and
ecosystem services in natural and agricultural ecosystems, and to exchange and friendship between
Israel and Germany.
Contact details:
Im Riedgarten 22, 46485 Wesel
German mobile: +49 (0)1578-3294103
Home: +49 (0)281-52366
[email protected]
Shira Dreifuss (formerly Lazarovich) Initiator of greenXchange
Shira recently returned to Israel and joined her family business Lazrom building and construction Ltd.
as sales and marketing manager where she plans to promote the concept of green building. She
worked before as the Public Diplomacy and Press Coordinator at the Israeli Embassy in Bern for the
German, French and Italian speaking-Switzerland. Between 2009-2011 Shira worked for the Jewish
National Fund (JNF-KKL) in Germany. In 2007, Shira worked as the Parliamentary Assistant to
Knesset Member (MK) Ophir Pines-Paz, during his campaign for the leadership of the Labor Party.
Prior to this, in 2006, she worked with MK Isaac Herzog, while he was Minister of Housing &
Construction and later while he was running for nomination to Labor's list for the Knesset. She has
been elected to different positions such as Deputy Delegate of the 35th World Zionist Congress and
the envoy of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the youth parliamentary simulation in Quebec's
Parliament (PJQ). Also, she has been actively involved with the NGO - Young Israeli Forum for
Cooperation (YIFC) where she currently acts as a Board Member. Shira was born and raised in Ramat
Hasharon, Israel and also currently resides there.
Contact details:
Israeli mobile: +972 (0)505332146
[email protected]
Nicole Grunewald
Nicole holds a BA in European Studies and a MA in International Economics. Currently she is a Ph.D.
candidate in Economics at the University of Goettingen in Germany. Her research interests are
Sustainable/Pro-Poor Growth and International Environmental Policies. She is am involved in two
research projects. The first deals with the development path and GHG emissions in emerging
countries. In the second project she supports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in the
process of writing their 5th assessment report on climate change.
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Contact details:
German phone: +49 (0)551 39 4015
[email protected]
Cora Theresa Hansen
Cora started 2009 her organic agriculture studies at the University of Kassel. Since this time she is
working in different political groups at the university.
She works in the University´s tropical greenhouse as a guide for environmental education.
In 2007 Cora was living and working 17 months in Israel. She was a co-worker for a handicapped
people in Kfar Rafael next to Beer Sheva.
After this time she was working 3 months on a cheese dairy in south Germany.
In 2009 she worked on an organic farm close to Bodensee. Cora was born in south Germany.
Contact details:
An der Bohlenbrücke 7, 37213 Witzenhausen
German mobile: 015779662625
Home: 055425070726
[email protected]
Micha Hesse
Micha is a student of Economics & Business Administration (BSc) at Frankfurt University in his 5th
semester, with a previous degree in Chemistry (MChem) from Exeter College, University of Oxford.
Aside from studying economics, Micha is currently a student employee at Air Liquide research in
Frankfurt working on kinetic modeling in hydrogen production systems. In the summer of 2011, Micha
interned with Better Place, Rosh HaAyin, Israel. For the Standards, Regulation & Environment office,
Micha examined the scientific literature and LCA studies on the environmental challenges of EV
solutions and drafted an application for a "green label" certification of the Battery Switch Stations of
Better Place at the Israeli Standards Institute.
Contact details:
German mobile: +49 (0)151 22816550
[email protected]
Sebastian Kreuz
In 2003/04 Sebastian fulfilled his civilian service within a Voluntary Environmental Year as an
employee on an ecologically working farm in Fredersdorf, Brandenburg. During this time he was
spokesman for all civilian servants working in the program at the “Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin”.
Afterwards he started studying economics with focus on social sciences at Potsdam University,
Germany, and completed in 2012.
His special interests are Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics. In 2006 he was
participant at the International Summer University of Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev in Beer
Sheva. From August 2009 to February 2010 he was Grad Student at the Agriculture and Resource
Economics Department at the University of Connecticut, USA. He passed internships at the German
Emissions Trading Authority and the German Institute for Economic Research, working on topics
including life-cycle analysis of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and energy balances of renewable
energies in Germany. In 2011 he was student employee at the Institute for Ecological Economy
Research (Berlin) in the field of analyzing added value by renewable energies in the German federal
state of Brandenburg, was Co-author of a related study and finished his diploma thesis on the same
topic.
Since June 2012 he is research assistant at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus in the
field of Energy Economics.
Contact details:
German mobile: +49 (0)170 9868121
[email protected]
Yoav Lerman
Yoav is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography and Human Environment in Tel-Aviv
University. His research focuses on pedestrian movement in urban environments and the factors
affecting it. He also does research relating to pedestrian safety. Yoav is a board member at Merhav –
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Movement for Israeli Urbanism and actively promotes pedestrian-oriented urban planning through
Merhav and other organizations.
Yoav has been writing the popular Hebrew blog on urban issues – "Yet Another Tel-Avivian Blog" at
http://www.tlv1.co.il. For his blogging activity he was awarded the 2010 Pratt Prize for Environmental
Journalism.
Yoav has eight years of experience in research and development at Intel Corp. and Marvell
Technology Group both in Israel and in the USA. He holds an MBA degree from Tel-Aviv University as
well as a B.Sc degree in computer science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Contact details:
Phone: +972-544406912
[email protected]
Dr. Johannes Metz
Johannes is a research ecologist who studies potential climate change impacts on natural
ecosystems, with a focus on plant biodiversity and the potential for rapid adaptation to novel climatic
conditions. He completed a PhD in 2010 at University of Tübingen/Germany in close collaboration with
The Hebrew University, where he spent 3 years for field research in Israel. His work was part of the
GLOWA Jordan River Project, the biggest German-Israeli research collaboration in Biology, that
assessed sustainable water use strategies for the Jordan River region. Born in Leipzig/Germany,
Johannes studied Biology, Geography, and Education in Freiburg/Germany. He has worked in nature
conservation projects and is also interested in the linkage between land use patterns, renewable
energies, and economic globalization. He speaks German and English, decent Hebrew and can
handle basic Russian. After teaching high school students in Biology & Geography for one year, he is
now starting a postdoc researcher position at Max-Planck-Institute and University of Tübingen, again
in close collaboration with two Israeli Universities.
Contact details:
German mobile: +49 (0)176 34439514
[email protected]
Leon Mintz
Leon is an aerospace engineer and a student towards an MSc in aerospace engineering at the
Technion, focusing on the combustion performance of biodiesel in gas turbines.
During his undergrad studies, Leon was an activist in Green Course and in the Technion Student
Association, as well as the editor of the aerospace faculty student's newspaper.
Leon was born in Uzbekistan and grew up in Petakh-Tikva and Rehovot, Israel. His hobbies are
hiking, diving, graphical design, contributing to Wikimedia projects and doing random projects.
One of his recent projects is writing to the Science Section of Megafon (http://megafon-news.co.il), the
first independent newspaper in Israel, where he plans to share the new ideas learnt during the
greenXchange program in Germany.
Leon sees the greenXchange as an opportunity to meet exceptional people, to learn new ideas and to
set common grounds for future initiatives.
Contact details:
[email protected]
Israeli phone: +972-50-7122427
German mobile: +49 (0)176-38616452
skype: kiwi_kingi
Yamit Perez
Yamit is currently the assistant to the senior Deputy Director General of Industries and Licensing at the
Ministry of Environmental Protection. Prior to this position, she worked for a short period in the
Department of Air Quality and Climate Change.
Before joining the Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2007, Yamit was a member of the core team
that established the government company Ariel Sharon Park Ltd and she served as the Chief
Administrative Officer. The Ariel Sharon Park company is responsible for planning, establishing and
managing the largest metropolitan park in the Dan region of the country. In addition, she was in
charge of the public participation in planning the park, which included arranging all the productions
and events held. For two years, she was the Project Manager at the Ayalon Park and assistant to the
chief engineer at the Dan Region Town Association, Solid Waste.
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In 2005 Yamit served as the Coordinator of the National Waste Survey, which is carried out once in a
decade by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. During the same year, Yamit was the coordinator
and marketing director of Organic Food NGO.
During the years 2001-2004, she was the Program Manager for ecological and nature projects, among
them “Green Surrounding” of the he Society for the Protection of Nature in Jerusalem and she worked
as an Environmental Consultant at an infrastructure company called Atat Ltd.
While studying at the Hebrew University, Yamit was the Green Course director, leading the campaign
for the fast train to Jerusalem and for greening the campus, later as a member of the managing board.
Yamit holds a B.Sc in Geology and Environmental Studies from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Contact details:
Israeli phone: +972-50-6233248
[email protected]
Ehud Pery
Ehud is 26 years old, was born and raised in Israel. He has just finished his bachelor studies in
Industrial engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the NEGEV. His final project was 'Desalination
membranes waste treatment alternatives Comparison'. In his last year at BGU he was member of the
student union council. He has been a green activist in Green Course for the past three years while two
years ago he coordinated the activity of Green Course in Be'er-Sheva. Together with other activists
they have pushed Be'er-Sheva’s municipality towards improving garbage solutions, such as recycling
and primal separation of our garbage into two separate streams (wet & dry), by protest and by
discussion and advocating for with all the different ranks in the municipality of Be'er-Sheva. In addition,
they promote bikes routes in the city by critical mass rides.
His last experience with delegation was 4 years ago as a general counselor at summer camp in
Wisconsin, USA. Currently moving to Haifa in north Israel, looking for a job and member in Green
Course Audit Committee.
Contact details:
Phone: +972 (0)54 6201295
Number for Germany: 372-59811753
[email protected]
Dr. Saul Reichman
Saul is Vice President at The Challenge Fund, an Israeli-based venture capital firm, specializing in all
stages of development that is in existence during the last 15 years. In addition to Challenge’s
investments, Challenge is engaged in assisting multinational corporations in accessing innovation in
Israel and beyond. During the past three years at Challenge, Saul provides strategic consulting,
screening and scouting services to The Coca-Cola Company with respect to their external technology
acquisition efforts in Israel and in Central-Eastern Europe, as well as to other multinational
corporations.
Prior to assuming his role at Challenge, Saul was Scientist-in-Residence at Precede Technologies, an
early-stage Cleantech oriented venture arm of Pitango Venture Capital and Evergreen Venture
Partners. His investment interests included energy storage, biofuels, water, green chemistry and
sustainable agriculture. In addition Saul has successfully licensed technologies from the Israeli
academia: A.I.T. – a small wind turbine start-up (CEO & Founder, Technion) and Lunaros – an online
liquid monitoring start-up (Co-founder, Weizmann Institute of Science).
Saul’s studies took place at Tel-Aviv University. He holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry with emphasis
in Applied Electrochemistry, an MBA specializing in strategy & entrepreneurship, a BSc in Chemistry
(graduated magna cum laude), and a BA in French Culture studies (graduated summa cum laude).
During his studies he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Tel-Aviv University Student Union and a
member of the board of directors of several of the university’s business units.
Saul is a frequent and engaging speaker on water, environmental entrepreneurship, Israel’s Cleantech
ecosystem and green supply chain. He is a mentor at Tel-Aviv University’s International MBA program
and at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, partnering with students on Hi-tech related
internships. He also writes frequently in the Israeli media on Cleantech related subjects.
Contact details:
Phone (that he will also be reached at during the seminar): +972 (0)50 6373777
6, Avigdor Stimatsky Street (Appartment #95), Tel-Aviv, 69362
[email protected], [email protected]
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Franziska Wende
Franziska has graduated as Bachelor of Science in Hydrology from the TU Dresden in 2011. She
currently studies Tropical Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Environmental Management at the
TU Darmstadt.
She has filled several positions in the social democratic party and its youth organisation. Further fields
of her activities include women's politics, international relations and especially environmental issues.
At her university Franziska is a consultant of the students' committee. Since 2009 she is a member of
the young socialists Germany's board for international politics and cooperation.
In 2009 Franziska was part of the Saxon delegation in a youth exchange with the Willy Brandt Center
in Jerusalem. She also is an active member of Friends of the Earth and the youth organisation the
Falcons.
Contact details:
German mobile: +49 (0)175 2708594
[email protected]
Biographies: participants from Czech Republic, Finland and Sweden
Madelene Agnarsson
Madelene is currently studying at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She
finished her Bachelors degree in Land and Water Resources Engineering during the spring 2012. The
fall 2012 she will start on her Masters in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure.
During five months 2008-2009 Madelene went to India as a volunteer for a children’s fund.
During the second semester of the Master she is going to Switzerland to learn French and study a
semester abroad. Her goal with her studies is to deepen her knowledge within the areas of water
supply and water cleaning techniques.
Conact details:
Swedish phone: +46(0) 707291878
[email protected]
Dikla Ben Shimon
Dikla is currently a third year student for Business Administration and modern languages studies in
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki. Dikla gained her experience in international
initiatives mainly through her EVS (European Voluntary Service) in Kokkola, Finland. Working for the
international department, she initiated and implemented different projects promoting EU agendas to
young adults (e.g. footprint awareness, sustainable society etc.) Living in Finland for over four years,
she has developed a clearer environmental awareness and been exposed to a growing trend among
the business world; the social demand for corporate’s social responsibility. She believes, as a future
professional in the business world, that by joining the greenXchange she could emphasize and elevate
better environmental friendly agendas in the business world together with social awareness. Dikla
believes there is a huge potential for this project and its future beneficial networking and synergy
among all countries.
Contact details:
Finnish mobile: +358 (0)40 4152571
[email protected]
Ladislav Faigl
Ladislav graduated with a Master of Science degree in Geography from Jan Evangelista Purkyne
University in Usti nad Labem. He currently works as a project manager in a language school and as a
logistics manager in a mechatronics company. During his university studies he attended various
environmental courses concerning e.g. urban environmental issues, sustainable development and
afforestation. Given the fact that he was born and raised in one of the most anthropogenically affected
regions of the Czech Republic, he is deeply interested in mine reclamation. He has been active in
environmental protection since his childhood. He worked for Czech Union for Nature Conservation,
introduced a waste sorting in a company he has been working for and is actively involved in planting
trees. He has been volunteering for KKL-JNF since June 2012 and took part in KKL European
Leadership Conference in Prague.
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Contact details:
Czech mobile: +420 728 386 336
[email protected]
Jiri Herman
Jiri was born in South Bohemian town of Ceske Budejovice in 1980. During his studies at the Law
faculty of the Charles University in Prague he became interested in environmental issues and, as a
member of the organisational team, also took part in the Ekofilm film festival which is an internally
recognised film festival displaying films with environmental topics. At the same time, Jiri helped with
organisation of various events as an active member of the Czech Union of Jewish Students.
The first academic experience Jiri had in the field of environment was a course of International
Environmental Law taken within his studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
(Greece) in 2003/4. In the following academic year he studied International Relations and Political
Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Jiri engaged himself with institutional aspects of
international protection of enviroment within his diploma thesis and graduated as a Master of Laws in
2008.
Currently, Jiri works as a junior lawyer and, among others, he specializes in environmental law and
legal regulation and implementation of renewables, especially solar power plants.
Contact details:
Czech phone: +420 602 159695
German mobile: +49 176 29425122
[email protected]
Helena Macková
Helena is 26 years old. She lives in Most, Czech Republic, a town that was heavily affected by surface
mining. Due to this anthropogenically affected place she studied many subjects which are related to
the environment and its protection. She thinks that protecting the environment would be very important
for each of us, because we would want to preserve it for future generations. She studied e.g. Natural
and Technologic Raw Materials Resources, Methods of Ecosystem Studies at VŠB-Technická
univerzita Ostrava, then Urban Environmental Studies at Jan E. Purkyně University.
Contact details:
Czech mobile: +420728850632
[email protected]
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Contacts
Accomodation
Frankfurt a.M.: August 15 – 17
BEST WESTERN Macrander Hotel
Frankfurt/Kaiserlei
Strahlenberger Str. 12
63067 Offenbach am Main
Phone: +49 (69) 153400 0
Fax: +49 (69) 153400 400
[email protected]
www.macranderhotels.de
www.macrander.bestwestern.de
Hamburg: August 17 – 19
A&O Hamburg City Süd
Spaldingstraße 160
20097 Hamburg
Phone: +49 (0)40 18 12 98 - 40 00
[email protected]
www.aohostels.com/de/hamburg/hamburg-citysued/
Berlin: August 10 - 23
Berlin Hostel 24
Immobilienforum Berlin Ltd.
Gerichtstr. 53
13347 Berlin
Phone: 030/ 46 90 61 33
Mobile: 0151/ 59 09 54 41 (Hanna Wien)
Fax: 030/ 46 90 61 34
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.berlinhostel24.com
Destinations
August 15
August 16
Touring Tours & Travel GmbH (Bus-Charter)
Contact person: Juliane Reichel
Am Römerhof 17, 60486 Frankfurt am Main
Phone: +49 (0)69 719126-269
giz
Contact person: Sarah Simon
Mobile: 0176-61702146
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5, 65760 Eschborn
Phone: +49 6196 79-0
www.giz.de/en
juwi Holding AG
Energie-Allee 1, 55286 Wörrstadt
Phone: +49. (0)6732. 96 57 - 0
www.juwi.com
Bioweingut Lorenz GbR
Wendelin und Johannes Lorenz
Gaustrasse 28, 55278 Friesenheim
Phone: +49 (0)6737-9703
[email protected]
www.bioweingut-lorenz.de
Dottenfelderhof
Contact person: Frau Hinterlang
Phone: +49 (0)151-54461995
[email protected]
Forschung & Züchtung
(Träger: Landbauschule Dottenfelderhof e.V.)
Dottenfelderhof, 61118 Bad Vilbel
Phone: +49 (0) 6101 129934
[email protected]
www.dottenfelderhof.de
Station: Dortelweil
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August 17
HafenCity GmbH
Contact person: Nuran Sahin
Guide: Mr Gödtel
HafenCity InfoCenter im Kesselhaus
Am Sandtorkai 30, 20457 Hamburg
Phone: +49-(0)40-369017-99
[email protected]
www.HafenCity.com
Förderkreis »Rettet die Elbe« e.V.
Alternative Hafenrundfahrt: Die etwas andere
Hafenrundfahrt zur Umweltpolitik in Hamburg,
Hafenerweiterung, Elbvertiefung und
Gewässerverschmutzung
Contact person: Herbert Nix
Nernstweg 22, 22765 Hamburg
Phone: +49 (0)40/39 30 01
[email protected]
www.rettet-die-elbe.de
Abfahrt / Ankunft: Anleger VORSETZEN am
roten Feuerschiff
U-Bahnstation: U3 Baumwall, Ausgang
Überseebrücke
August 19
CHAVERIM – Freundschaft mit Israel e.V
Anerkannter Kulturträger der Stadt Norderstedt
Ayala Nagel
Erste Vorsitzende
Schulweg 35a, 22844 Norderstedt
Phone: +49 40 5353 1951
Fax: +49 40 5353 1952
Mobile: +49 (0)175 - 7276731
[email protected]
www.chaverim-norderstedt.de
Leonardo Royal Hotel Berlin
Otto-Braun-Straße 90, 10249 Berlin
Phone : +49 (0)30 7554300
Contact person: Stefanie Reppin
Phone : +49 (0)30 755 430 752
August 20
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
Research (PIK)
Telegrafenberg
P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam
www.pik-potsdam.de/pikfrontpage?set_language=en
Hermann Lotze-Campen
Chair of PIK Research Domain II: Climate
Impacts and Vulnerabilities
Building A62, Room 1.08
[email protected]
Phone : +49 (0)331 288 2699
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz
und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU)
Stresemannstraße 128 – 130, 10117 Berlin
State Secretary Ms Ursula Heinen-Esser
(Deutscher Bundestag, Platz der Republik 1,
11011 Berlin)
(Phone: +49 (0)30 22773604)
[email protected]
www.ursula-heinen.de
Raue LLP
Rechtsanwälte und Notare
Potsdamer Platz 1, 10785 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 818 550 0
www.raue.com
August 21
Life e.V. ‚Mehr Wege als Einweg’
Dircksenstr. 47, 10178 Berlin
S-Bahnhof Hackescher Markt
Contact person: Martina Bergk
[email protected]
Phone : +49 (0)30-30879821
www.life-online.de
Innovationszentrum für Mobilität und
gesellschaftlichen Wandel (InnoZ) GmbH
Torgauer Straße 12-15, 10829 Berlin
Contact person: Saadya Windauer
Phone: +49 (0)30 23 88 84 – 208
[email protected]
www.innoz.de
Airport Tempelhof
www.tempelhoferfreiheit.de/en
Pinzessinnengarten
Prinzenstrasse 35 – 38 / Prinzesinnenstrasse 15
U-Bahn Moritzplatz
[email protected]
Contact person: Elena Brandes
Phone : +49(0)178-2108655
[email protected]
http://prinzessinnengarten.net
Benjamin Bodirsky
PHD Candidate
Building A62 Room 010
[email protected]
Phone: 49 331 288 2415
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August 22
August 23
Vattenfall Europe Mining AG
BD Production/BU Lignite
Standortkommunikation
Vom-Stein-Straße 39, 03050 Cottbus
Contact person: Cornelia Höhne
Phone: +493552887 3373
[email protected]
www.vattenfall.de
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Besucherservice
Avantgarde Sales & Marketing Support GmbH
Contact person: Friederike Lochow
Phone: +49 - 561 - 70 727 70
[email protected]
www.documenta.de
Bootsverleih Richter
Dammstraße 76A, Lübbenau/Spreewald
Phone: +49 (0)35423764
www.bootsverleih-richter.de
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JNF-KKL
The Jewish National Fund - Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (JNF-KKL), a non-profit NGO, championing
the principle of sustainable development and leading the quest for a more environmental Israel: open
spaces, forests, recreation areas and appreciation for Israel’s natural and cultural heritage. JNF-KKL's
work in Israel is concentrated in six action areas that include: water, forestry and environment,
education, community development and security, tourism and recreation, research and development.
Main Sponsor
ISTRA Tradelink Ltd. is active as a service provider in the Cleantech sector and helps Swiss
companies to access the Israeli market for environmental technology. ISTRA supports the
greenXchange project in memory of the sadly too early deceased friend and patron Steven Karger,
who always placed great importance on the education and development of young people.
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