In Episode 0, Prof. Dr. Hans-Hennig von Grünberg, holder of the first transfer professorship, explains his concept of transfer and how the general understanding of transfer has evolved over the past years. Science is currently undergoing fundamental processes of change in which society and science must increasingly interact in order to more successfully overcome current and future crises.

Dr. Georg Veh of the University of Potsdam has a keen interest in glacier melting. In his dissertation, he examined outbreaks of glacier lakes in the Himalayas and was recognized for his outstanding doctoral work. Currently, the geoscientist is conducting research in southern Alaska. He is interested in understanding how climate change is altering glacier melt and what can be done to mitigate the natural hazards of overflowing glacier lakes. According to a new study published by Dr. Georg Veh in the journal "Nature," in collaboration with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), glacial lake outbursts are occurring earlier in the year worldwide, originating from higher elevations. Data recorded since 1900 allows researchers to characterize more than 1,500 glacial lake outbursts globally. By analyzing water volume, peak discharge, timing, and the elevation of the source lake, they can more accurately calculate potential hazards. Due to global warming, several regions with small glaciers, such as the European Alps, Scandinavia, and Canadian British Columbia, could become largely ice-free by the end of the 21st century. Researchers recommend monitoring lakes dammed by glaciers in these regions and equipping downstream areas with early warning systems.

PhD student Daniel Pauli from the University of Potsdam calls his discovery a cosmic carousel: a massive binary star system that is well on the way to becoming black holes. For the scientist, who is analyzing over 30 stars as part of his doctorate, this phenomenon is a “real discovery”. Daniel Pauli from Potsdam and Matthew Rickard from University College London looked at the pair of stars, which have been known since 1986, and analyzed data from various telescopes on the ground and in space. They discovered that the stars from the neighboring galaxy “Small Magellanic Cloud” are in contact with each other and exchange material, with one star “feeding” the other. They orbit each other every three days and are the most massive binary stars known to date. The two scientists published their study in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics”. In this podcast episode with Daniel Pauli, you can find out how they measured different wavelength ranges of the binary star system spectroscopically and what this means exactly.

With Isabel Pearce
In the last few decades, Brazil has become an international example for its fight against hunger. But recent developments in the political-economical scenario have led to rising malnutrition levels and the return of the country to the FAO’s World Hunger map. Paradoxically, this occurred while record-high levels of revenue and production were being set in the Brazilian agricultural sector. What explains this inequality between food production and consumption? With the help of our guest, Isabel Pearce, who recently wrote a literature review on the subject, we will try to answer this question and explore potential paths for countries in a similar position.

Science is constantly gaining new insights that advance society and politics. However, this transfer can only be used if the knowledge is widely discussed. But how do experts make themselves heard in politics? How exactly does scientific political advice work? What conditions are needed to enable a multifaceted exchange? In this podcast, Henriette Ruhrmann presents the status quo of transfer science and provides food for thought for possible development perspectives. As part of a third-party funded research project, the research assistant analyzes how transfer and innovation are connected. She has identified 36 individual transfer channels between science and politics in twelve clusters.

As an avid insect lover, ecologist Vera Kaunath's master's thesis focused on the attraction of ground beetles to artificial light sources as part of global light pollution.

In her PhD, she is investigating the effectiveness of environmental agricultural measures against insect decline in agricultural landscapes, where she is studying an innovative concept of rolling composite wildflower blocks to implement a permanent refuge for insects. The research project started in 2022.

In the podcast, she talks not only about her PhD, but also about further projects and ideas for more attention to biodiversity conservation.

The art scholar Ulrike Gerhardt from the University of Potsdam talks with the artists Lene Markusen and Marta Popivoda about transgenerational memory practices and transmission processes in art. The two underlying filmic works that exemplify a "womanly face of war" (Svetlana Alexievich) are called Landscapes of Resistance (2021) by Marta Popivoda and Revolutionary Women: Ella (2022) by Lene Markusen. Both works reflect life stories of women whose biographies are located at the margins of official historiography. The podcast provides an insight into the work of the Transgenerational Memories thematic field within the art historical research project "Images of History in Contemporary Art" led by Melanie Franke, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation in Bern and transferred to the University of Potsdam in 2022.

With episode 47 the 3rd episode from the project Urban Forest Gardens is presented. Within the project, the two geographers Lea Matscheroth and Luca Durstewitz are particularly concerned with the soil composition of the Urban Forest Gardens and how the special type of planting in the Urban Forest Gardens influences the soil composition over time and what positive effects this actually has on the microclimate in the area of the forest gardens.
A stated goal is also that the urban soil can absorb more water through the optimized composition, because that is what is most important in heavily built-up urban areas. To make a long-term effect and planning possible, they are not only trying to find dedicated forest gardeners, but also environmental education and citizen science projects.

Episode 46 is an unusual podcast episode. We feature Better World Award-nominated lawyer Dr. Anna von Rebay with her doctoral thesis on the topic of ocean litigation. Since her topic is intended to reach international listeners, the episode was implemented completely in English. Anna von Rebay wants her work to contribute to the protection of the oceans from a legal point of view. She wants to achieve that increasingly larger areas are legally protected by the responsible governments and the population.

Dr. Patrick Bröker presents his EXIST foundation grant funded company HUMANGOLD. HUMANGOLD is about the risk assessment of mental stress in larger companies. Using the PSY-QUICK platform developed at the University of Potsdam, a digital platform for the psychological risk assessment of workplaces through employee surveys, he supports companies in correctly assessing the stresses and strains of their employees. PSY- Quick has been evaluated on more than four thousand employees and eighty workplaces and guarantees high reliability. The result is transmitted to the customer with general recommendations for action or, in more complex cases, with more individual or even digital solutions.

Dr. Nastasja Scholz, who works as a research associate at Innovativen Hochschule Potsdam, reports on her research in the Joint Lab Drones and Sensor Technology. The geophysicist has her first experience with remote sensing work using satellite data through her work in a start-up. At the University of Potsdam, she has now taken on two other projects that also deal with remote sensing. The Birdwatch diversity project, in which habitat qualities for bird settlement and nesting can be derived from the data obtained. The Urban Green Eye project is about planning green spaces in urban areas to counteract negative urban effects, such as heavy soil sealing and the heat island effect.

In episode 43, Luisa Gedon talks about another interesting aspect of the Urban Forest Gardens project.

Luisa Gedon studied geoecology at the University of Potsdam. When she was about to write her master's thesis, she became aware of the Urban Forest Gardens and subsequently wrote her master's thesis here. In particular, she researched and evaluated the social aspects of community engagement in the Urbane Waldgärten project and wanted to find out under what circumstances urban residents would collaborate on a shared garden project. How much time are people willing to spend in a garden and invest in their hobby of gardening?

Prof. Dr. Winnie-Karen Giera is a junior professor at the Chair of Inclusive German Didactics. As part of her research, she uses debating and drama to promote and support students' writing skills in all inclusive learning groups. In podcast episode 42, she talks about her experiences in the classroom, with students, and her intervention study.

Since 2019, it is possible to study the master's program "Intercultural Business Communication" at the University of Potsdam. The master's degree was created through the cooperation of the Faculty of Humanities and UP Transfer GmbH, with the aim of facilitating the understanding of different national cultures and deriving from this the appropriate behavior in each case. Darius Selke is one of the first graduates of this program, he has already gained a lot of experience on the international stage before his studies at the University of Potsdam. His political science and communication studies already focused on international relations, and he worked at a large international company during his studies. In his podcast episode, Darius Selke explains what a management consultant needs to bring to the table in today's world and what challenges have to be overcome on an international and intercultural level.

A conspiracy ideology, or conspiracy narrative, as Sophia Bock calls it, is basically an anti-democratic attitude in which there is always the idea behind it that a person or group of people wants to achieve something specific in order to harm society and keep it in the dark about it. Since her master's thesis at the University of Potsdam, trainee teacher Sophia Bock has been researching conspiracy narratives. With Prof. Dr. Wilfried Schubarth as co-author, she has also written a book on this topic.

Junior professor of psycholinguistics Natalie Boll-Avetisyan and graduate patholinguist Jeannine Schwytay talk about language acquisition trajectories and language development disorders in early childhood in episode 39. Language development disorders can lead to affected children experiencing exclusion and failure at school at an early age due to their lower language ability. The earlier language development disorders can be recognised and preventive measures can be taken, the more successful speech therapy can be in supporting them. Prof. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan's working group is researching the development of a method that can detect a risk of language development disorders as early as babyhood. As part of her research in the Babylab, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan has developed and patented a baby language test box that can identify language preferences in babies as early as 9-13 months of age.

Episode 38 is all about communication. Dr. Kristien Meuris originally comes from speech therapy and works as a research assistant in the field of inclusion education at the University of Potsdam. Inclusion pedagogy focuses on the appreciation and recognition of diversity in education and upbringing. Kristien Meuris researches and teaches here in the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). This involves helping people who have difficulty with speech to get an alternative to replace or supplement the missing spoken language.

Prof. Dr. Katja Harnack heads the Endowed Chair of Immunotechnology at the University of Potsdam to research artificial immune responses and develop artificial antibodies. In episode 37, biotechnologist Dr. Martin Listek talks about his main field of research, diagnostics, and the methods he is helping to develop that can be used to artificially create and mass-produce antibodies.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) aim to make knowledge openly accessible to a larger group of the population. Sebastian Serth and Thomas Staubitz are conducting research to understand learning and offer ways to improve it even further. At the Digital Engineering Faculty of HPI and the University of Potsdam, the two computer scientists are working on the openHPI platform to make the faculty more open and accessible to all. Massive Open Online Courses are offered via openHPI, some of which are attended by up to 40,000 learners.

The environmental psychologist Dr. Anna Heidenreich jointly investigates natural risks such as heat waves and floods within an interdisciplinary team. She researches human behavior in crisis situations and how adaptive and protective behaviors function and can be improved. The research results Anna Heidenreich has obtained by analyzing surveys are mainly about improved communication. She distinguishes between risk and crisis communication. Risk communication aims to create awareness and provide necessary knowledge in the longer term; it happens before the actual event. Crisis communication, on the other hand, is the warning in an acute emergency situation. The aim of both is not to scare people, but to prepare them as best as possible for the natural risk.

Nicolas Rode is a transfer advisor and subproject coordinator of the Society Campus of the Innovative University at the University of Potsdam. In episode 34, he presents the business game Trust MAP, which he developed in cooperation with Dr. Rubina Zern-Breuer, research associate at the University of Speyer, employees of the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Bayer AG. The simulation game is aimed at students, research groups and project managers and is intended to prepare them for working with multistakeholder projects. This means that different interest groups have to reconcile their different beliefs and interests in order to pursue a common goal and to successfully complete the joint project.

In episode 33, Master of Geosciences graduate Debby Schmidt presents her thesis on alternative methods for mining rare earths. In this podcast episode, she explains why they are so important for our industry and why the current mining process is so critical, and what alternative she researched to conventional wasteful extraction. She hopes that her results on the so-called bioleaching process will become the starting point for more sustainable mining processes. Debby Schmidt won the Better World Award 2022 for her master's thesis.

In episode 32, PhD student Alyna Lange talks about optimising fuel cells. She is doing her PhD in the Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry group and is researching the optimisation of certain fuel cell components as part of her thesis. These are membrane materials based on ionic liquids, so-called ionogels. Alyna Lange already worked on ionic liquids during her master's thesis and hopes to continue researching them after her doctorate and to test the use of these versatile materials for other areas as well.

Computer scientist Jan Bernoth works and is doing his doctorate at the University of Potsdam in the Innovative University. As part of his doctorate, he has developed a dashboard that enables scientists to better communicate their research to society. A tool for digital science communication, but also for acquiring and expanding knowledge and keeping up to date in one's own or other people's research areas. The dashboard can be used by scientists and students. A variety of filter options allow for demand-oriented use.

Prof. Dr Tim Dietrich works in the field of gravitational waves and has been Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Potsdam since 2020.

In episode 26, he tells us what happens when neutron stars collide and why the measurement of gravitational waves was such a big breakthrough a few years ago, because they were already predicted by Albert Einstein. He explains how they are created and how they can be measured.

He also talks about how he got into astrophysics and what interesting projects he has planned for the future.

At the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Potsdam, research assistant Anja Tschiersch is developing and testing didactic concepts for chemistry lessons as part of her doctorate.
She is working on using augmented reality to present classical spatial representations of chemical formulae to pupils in a clear and comprehensible way in 3D models. This involves integrating a digital element within a real representation of the environment in an app. The digital elements can be edited interactively within the app. Together with interested teachers, she tests and optimises these applications in order to implement the transfer from research to school in the best possible way.

Crochet as a graph structure, what that means, how you can create digital crochet instructions nowadays and why you have to teach the computer to crochet first is what software developer Klara Seitz tells us in the 24th podcast episode of Listen.UP.
Together with game designer Lydia Herrmann, Klara Seitz founded the start-up ChartCrafter to provide crochet designers with a tool to automatically transform their digital crochet designs into texts in different languages or to develop various output formats such as tutorials for users.

In the context of her doctoral thesis, the psychologist Nicole Behrend deals with the question of under which circumstances people develop an appreciative attitude towards their body and what effect a positive body image has on other areas of psychological well-being.
She is looking at the appreciation of one's own body in different groups of people and which factors can have an influence on body image.
Through her research results, she hopes to improve preventive and curative interventions for eating disorders.

In episode 22, Dr Bettina Neumann reports on her research into new COVID-19 test methods.
The working group she is part of wants to develop tests that deliver comparable results to the PCR test and yet are much faster and can even be carried out in the doctor's office or at home.
This will be a universal method that can then be adapted to other viral diseases in a modified form.
In our 22nd episode of the Listen.UP podcast, she tells us what challenges she and her colleagues have to overcome and what motivates them.

Chemist Stephanie Schlappa explains in the podcast episode "Research close to practice" how turbid or milky liquids can be analysed with photon density wave spectroscopy, why this is so innovative and how it can help to optimise manufacturing processes in industry and make them more sustainable.
Stephanie Schlappa is working on her dissertation and is the scientific coordinator of the Joint Lab OPAT on the technology campus of the "Innovative University of Applied Sciences Potsdam" project. The joint labs are new forms of cooperation that promote transfer and create cross-organisational, jointly usable spaces for experimentation and thinking. These help to find innovative solutions to scientific and technological problems more quickly.

To make their urban environment more liveable, more and more urban gardeners want to grow crops themselves and implement new more sustainable concepts. The project "Urban Forest Gardens" is a joint project of the University of Potsdam together with the Bezirksverband Berlin-Süden der Kleingärtner e.V., Freilandlabor Britz e.V. and the Environmental and Garden Office of the City of Kassel and has been led by Dr Jennifer Schulz and her colleague Dr Torsten Lipp since 2018. They have set themselves the goal of promoting environmental education, social interaction and a near-natural and long-term form of "urban gardening" and have been testing this in three forest gardens in Berlin and Kassel since April 2021. Forest gardens are long-term projects, as the growth of perennial plants and trees has to be planned for, but the plantings have a positive effect on the overheated urban climate, soil protection and provide habitats for various animal species.

In episode 19, physicist Dr Aljoscha Rheinwalt deals with old and new techniques from geo-remote sensing. At the Institute of Geosciences, he is working on further developing methods for virtually measuring complex surfaces from point cloud data. Together with his colleagues from the Geological Remote Sensing working group, he is researching the various approaches to measuring reality via virtual reality, which have not been very reliable so far, and optimising them. These methods could then possibly also be used for autonomous driving; integrating them more strongly is a near goal of Dr. Rheinwalt.

With insect-based dog food, the start-up EntoNative GmbH wants to break new, unusual ground.
Co-founder of EntoNative GmbH, nutritionist Dr Ina Henkel from the University of Potsdam, has realised her desire for more sustainability for humans and animals and a healthier life for dogs under the brand TENETRIO and produces dog food and healthy dog snacks from mealworms.
Mealworms have a high nutritional content and are also very sustainable. Raising insects conserves resources because they require only a fraction of the water, food and space needed by conventional livestock, such as cattle. Mealworms also emit hardly any greenhouse gases and their utilisation is also much more efficient, as they are 100 % edible.
These and many other reasons led Ina Henkel and her co-founders to found the start-up EntoNative GmbH in 2017 with the support of the start-up service of the University of Potsdam.

Textile and surface designer Ulrike Böttcher and product designer Nina Kahmke present their company valupa in episode 17. The young startup was funded by the EXIST startup grant and is made up of the English words for "value" and "parts". The name stands for the appreciation of even the smallest components of textile products, because valupa produces fasteners from biodegradable plastics and residual materials from the food industry. In this way, the founders want to help make clothing more recyclable and counteract the waste of raw materials.

Episode 16 of Listen.UP deals with the topic of diversity and religious festivities in the German educational system.

Annika Koch, a research associate in organizational and behavioral sociology, wants to raise awareness of this issue among teachers, decision-makers, and the broader public. She specializes in questions concerning the functioning of our society and its institutions and, in doing so, aims to shed light on social injustices. In doing so, Annika Koch examines how the German educational system responds to and deals with diversity and religious holidays. In particular, she looks at how they deal with Christmas, the largest Christian holiday in context with Ramadan, the largest Muslim festivity.

As director and deputy director of the Theodor-Fontane-Archive, Germanist Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke and literary scholar Dr. Anna Busch have been thinking for some time about how to improve the transfer of literature and cultural-historical knowledge using the tools of digitization. In the 15th episode of the Listen.UP podcast, they talk about the idea of openness, the great treasure trove of data that the Theodor Fontane Archive makes freely available, and research on Theodor Fontane, whom Peer Trilcke describes as a figure who still looks at us very modernly today.

Together with his DFG-funded Emmy Noether junior research group, chemist Dr. Matthias Hartlieb is looking for an answer to the problem of antimicrobial resistance. The last 70 to 80 years of medical development were only possible, Dr. Hartlieb explains, because there were functioning antibiotics that could be administered routinely and also preventively. It is precisely this protection against bacterial infections that is increasingly coming under threat from resistance. Since his postdoctoral position at the University of Warwick (UK), he has been working with so-called antimicrobial polymers. His research aims to make these polymers so efficient and tolerable that they can one day be used as an alternative to conventional antibiotics. A major advantage is that antimicrobial polymers are relatively insensitive to resistance. The road to developing polymers for clinical control of harmful bacteria is still long, but it would be an answer to one of our greatest medical challenges.

In episode 13, Listen.UP presents a start-up project that was already supported by the University of Potsdam in 2014. Dr. Christoph Schmitz of Acker e. V. is working to increase appreciation for nature and food. Acker e. V. is a social enterprise that operates at the interface of education, agriculture, environment and nutrition. Acker is convinced that only a society that values nature and food is fit for the future. With its practice-oriented educational programs, the social enterprise therefore creates formative nature experiences for children and adults throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Its offerings include the award-winning GemüseAckerdemie and AckerRacker educational programs for daycare centers and schools. With offerings for adults, Acker also carries its mission into businesses, tenancies and private homes. In the Listen.UP podcast from the University of Potsdam, Christoph Schmitz talks about the history and mission of Acker, focusing on the topic of knowledge transfer: how can acker impart knowledge and why he believes that appreciation for nature and food can best be achieved through dirty hands.

School reimagined: in the 12th episode of the Listen.UP podcast, a sub-project of the Innovative University, the Bildungscampus, has its say. Katrin Völkner and Florian Sievert, both project managers at the Bildungscampus, present their concept for a university school at the University of Potsdam. For the past 2 years, the Education Campus has been working in a cooperative process with a mixed team of teachers, students, academics, and other education experts to further develop the university school framework. They are working on supporting schools in dealing with highly topical issues such as digitalization, inclusion and climate change with supplementary or rethought structures, measures and methods.

How do humans affect the Earth system? This was one of the questions that led Ms. Ariane Müting to study earth and environmental sciences. During their studies, geology students still explore the terrain through numerous excursions in order to apply their acquired knowledge and to recognize the structures they know from theory in nature. But how the earth's surface changes can also be observed well by means of remote sensing, so one can get every corner of the earth at the workplace. The data on the earth's surface and atmosphere required for this are collected without contact via sensors on drones, aircraft and satellites. Ms. Müting wrote her master's thesis on the creation of three-dimensional elevation models of the Earth's surface based on such satellite images, and she is also working on this as a doctoral student in the same area of investigation. In the Andes, in the northwest of Argentina. There, the University of Potsdam has had numerous collaborations with local authorities, universities and research institutions for years.

Adaptive force is the special muscle function that we need to adapt to external forces. In the process, we have to hold on. Since this holding and braking function of the muscles seems to play a central role in orthopedic complaints, but also in mental problems or post-infectious conditions, Prof. Frank Bittmann and Dr. Laura Schaefer have developed a device with which the adaptive force, which has so far been largely ignored, can be measured. It can be used for research and in a therapeutic context. In addition, the device can also measure oscillations, which - according to a preliminary study by Schaefer and Bittmann - could become interesting for the early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. Prof. Bittmann is Professor of Regulatory Physiology and Prevention at the University of Potsdam and Dr. Schaefer is a research associate in the Department of Sport and Health Sciences.

Dr. Barbora Šedová is an environmental economist and FutureLab leader at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change PIK. In her work, she analyzes mechanisms and contextual impacts of climate-related influences on human migration, inequality and conflict risks in countries of the Global South.

In the "FutureLab - Security, Ethnic conflicts and migration" where Dr. Sedova is co-leader, policy makers are prepared through knowledge transfer for conflicts that arise when urbanization increases and cities become social hotspots. After all, whether climate-induced migration presents itself as a disaster or an opportunity is ultimately a question of political governance, Barbora Sedova says. In doing so, she hopes to generate understanding for these opportunities among decision-makers and the general public.

"What actually happens there?" asks chemist Dr. Marvin Münzberg from the University of Potsdam in the 8th episode. He works in the field of physical chemistry and has already worked on process analyses as part of his doctorate. Dr. Münzberg heads the Analytical Photonics group at InnoFSPEC Potsdam and is working on process optimization of an optical measurement technique of photon density wave spectroscopy together with cooperation partners from industry. In order to obtain as good and comprehensive an overall picture as possible, the analysis methods are adapted and further developed here as required. Therefore, Dr. Münzberg wishes for the future that this form of process analytics would be used as a matter of course in every industrial manufacturing process. And also under the aspect of the development of Industry 4.0, problems would be approached in this way and the question would be asked more frequently: What actually happens there? And where can I then intervene? Transcript

Episode 7 of our podcast series is about solutions proposed by lawyer Dr. Marie-Christine Zeisberg for fair, secure and sustainable regulations of raw materials under international law. She studied law at the Humboldt University of Berlin and received her doctorate from the University of Potsdam. Her dissertation on international commodity law was published by Nomos Verlag and nominated for the Better World Award 2021.

For Dr. Zeisberg, a fair, secure and sustainable distribution of raw materials worldwide is one of the most important tasks facing humanity in the 21st century and, with its effects on life, the environment and technical progress, determines the fate of the continuously growing world population. Transcript

Stefanie Kunkel studied Public Economics in Berlin and is now doing research at the IASS, Institute for Transformative Sustainability Research within the research group "Digitalization and Transformation towards Sustainability". This is where she is also writing her dissertation on "Green Value Chains through Industry 4.0" for which she received a nomination for the Better World Award 2021.

Her research focuses on sustainability in the supply chains of the globalized economy - and how digitalization can and will impact this, and that Industry 4.0 is a vision in many areas but not yet actually implemented. Transcript

In the fifth episode of "Listen.UP", sports scientist Thea Fühner and cognitive psychologist Prof. Reinhold Kliegl talk about the EMOTIKON primary school sports project. Both are conducting joint research at the Institute for Training and Movement Sciences at the University of Potsdam, which is conducting the study.
The EMOTIKON primary school sports project has been running since 2009 and is a large-scale statistical study on the topic of school sports. It evaluates the motor skills of third graders in the state of Brandenburg. As part of the intervention programs proposed by the EMOTIKON team, there are numerous recommendations for action to promote the development of children's physical fitness. The suggestions for compensating for the negative effects of social change on physical activity behavior are appropriate for children and support the natural urge to move of 8 to 9-year-olds. Transcript

Prof. Dr. Hubert Wiggering is Professor of Geoecology and leads the "Land Sciences" working group at the University of Potsdam.
In the fourth podcast episode of "Listen.UP", he talks about his ideal of knowledge transfer and his bilateral collaboration with farmers in which he involves them in the scientific knowledge process on site, increasing efficiency on both sides.

He presents his farm of the future and explains that for him there is not only the ideal farm, but rather an ideal region where farmers cooperate, complement each other and thus adapt to the site conditions. Hubert Wiggering also gives shape to his vision of the farm of the future in his book "Cows in the washing system". Transcript

The third episode of "Listen.UP" takes us into molecular biology and proves how basic research prepares the soil for later applications. In plant physiology, PhD student Bryan Nowack is researching the stress resistance of new varieties in order to adapt them to the requirements of a changing climate and thus secure the production of food in a future-oriented agriculture. Transcript

Luise Roither is a health economist and completed a part-time MBA at the University of Potsdam. In her master's thesis, she dealt with the long-term care provision fund against the background of a social long-term care insurance and was thus nominated for the Better World Award 2021. She is active in the "Denkschmiede Gesundheit" and argues in her podcast for more generational justice in the system. Transcript

In the first episode of the Listen.UP podcast, the winner of the Better World Award 2021, Dr. Julian Risch, presents a machine learning method that automatically filters out hate comments in online discussions so that a moderation team can decide whether to remove them. The first editorial teams are already working with it. Born in Berlin in 1991, Julian Risch studied IT systems engineering at the University of Potsdam. After completing his master's degree, he began his doctoral studies in the Hasso Plattner Institute's research college on the topic of "Analysis of Reader Comments on Online News Platforms." Since successfully completing his doctorate in December 2020, Dr. Risch has been working as a machine learning engineer at a Berlin-based start-up that develops open source software for semantic search in texts. Transcript