Green future for the Poland-Germany border region

(01/2026 - 12/2026)

Project description

The project ‘Green Future in the PL-D Border Region’ aims to leverage the opportunities and possibilities arising from structural change in the field of energy transition to deepen cross-border cooperation. The University of Applied Sciences Zittau Görlitz will hold a hackathon on the topic with German and Polish students. In addition, two conferences are planned on site, as well as further cooperation events together with the project partners for business and scientific companies in the border triangle. The project thus ties in with the previous project ‘DigiNetPolSax – Digitalisation for the Common Economic Area’, which aimed to strengthen the economic competitiveness of the Saxon-Polish border region by promoting cross-border cooperation.

Project partners
Documentation/ Events:
  • 32nd Polish-German-Czech Cooperation Forum for Businesses
    6 November 2025, Hotel Gołębiewski, ul. Karkonoska 14, 58-540 Karpacz, Poland
    Link
  • 11th Bautzen Energy Forum
    24 June 2025, TGZ Bautzen
    Link
  • Hackathon: Sustainable Cross-Border Solutions 
    Sustainable solutions in 48 hours
    9 to 11 May 2025, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences
    Report on the hackathon 9–11 May 2025 and its results German/Polish
    More about the results
  • 2nd Zittau Plastics and Lightweight Construction Conference (ZKLT)
    Green but also economical? Ways to competitive decarbonisation of the plastics industry
    29 January 2025, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Building IV
    www.ZKLT.info/
  • East Saxony Mechanical Engineering Days
    16 to 17 October 2024, TGZ Bautzen
    To the programme
  • 31st Polish-German-Czech Cooperation Forum for Companies
    14 November 2024 I KARR.PL
    To the programme
To the project website

Funding

The project is funded by the European Union as part of the INTERREG Poland-Saxony 2021–2027 cooperation programme.

The university's funding amounts to €439,160.79 ERDF.

Contact

Foto: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Raj Kollmorgen
project manager
Prof. Dr. phil. habil.
Raj Kollmorgen
R.Kollmorgen(at)hszg.de
Fakultät Sozialwissenschaften
02826 Görlitz
Furtstraße 2
Building G I, Room 2.17
2. Obergeschoss
+49 3581 374-4259
TRAWOS
02826 Görlitz
Parkstraße 2
Building G VII, Room
2. Obergeschoss rechts
+49 3581 374-4259
Foto: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Scholz
project manager
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Sebastian Scholz
sebastian.scholz(at)hszg.de
Fakultät Maschinenwesen
02763 Zittau
Schwenninger Weg 1
Building Z VII, Room 210
2. OG
+49 3583 612-4832
Fraunhofer IWU
02763 Zittau
Th.-Körner-Allee 6
Building F II (Fraunhofer), Room 313
3. OG
+49 3583 54086 4009
project team member
Dipl.-Ing.
Birgit Benesch-Jenkner
Birgit.Benesch-Jenkner(at)hszg.de
Zentrum für Innovation u. Technologietransfer
02763 Zittau
Schwenninger Weg 1
Building Z VII, Room 402.3
4. Obergeschoss
+49 3583 612-4895
project team member
Dipl.-Ing.
Constanze Kuring
Constanze.Kuring(at)hszg.de
Fakultät Maschinenwesen
02763 Zittau
Th.-Körner-Allee 6
Building F II (Fraunhofer), Room 208
2. Obergeschoss
+49 3583 612-4805
+49 3583 6125-4805