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Measures to promote biodiversity & effects on certain species groups
Date: October 31, 2024 from 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Location: Hessian state domain Frankenhausen

Registration to katharina.mittelstrass(at)uni-kassel.de

Date: November 14, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Place: Hessian state domain Frankenhausen

The future of agriculture could be more digital and more sustainable at the same time - but how? Under the motto "Wild bee meets drone", the DigiPlus project invites you to find out how digital technologies can promote biodiversity in agriculture and what challenges there are. The expert discussion will focus on the question: Can digitalization contribute to the preservation of biodiversity and what do solutions look like in practice?

From sensors and drones to robots - in presentations and discussions, experts will show how digital tools can be combined with the protection of insects and plants. The event is aimed at anyone who is interested in making our agriculture more sustainable.

Please register by October 31 so that we can better plan the catering: anmeldung-digiplus[at]uni-kassel[dot]de.

Background: DigiPlus is a research project of the University of Kassel and the Department of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the experimental field FarmerSpace Göttingen and the domain Frankenhausen and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Further information can be found at: digi-plus.farm.

We cordially invite you to the Glühwei(h)nacht on St. Nicholas Day, Friday, December 6, from 5:30 pm!

Domäne Frankenhausen has had a new managing director since July 1, 2024. Dr. David Kilian has taken over as Managing Director from the previous Managing Director, Dr. Christian Krutzinna. Dr. Krutzinna is retiring in September after 26 years of successful business development.

As part of a student project, a very watchable short film about the domain was created.

"The common good economy establishes an ethical economic model.
The well-being of people and the environment becomes the primary goal of economic activity."

As part of a student project, a common good balance sheet has been drawn up for the Frankenhausen domain.
In a balance sheet for the common good, the economic success of a company is examined and evaluated according to more comprehensive criteria than monetary ones: ethical aspects as well as social cooperation in a company, fair economic and trade relations along the entire value chain, and the ecological sustainability of economic activity play a major role in the evaluation.

Based on this common good balance sheet, it is now possible to continuously work on improvement processes towards the common good at the domain.
Since 2020, the domain has been a member of Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie e.V. and thus supports the establishment of an ethical and sustainable economic model.

At the Hessian State Domain Frankenhausen, carrot cultivation is an important mainstay of agricultural production. For the marketing initiative "Bio mit Gesicht" (Organic with a Face), Ines Reinisch made a film that accompanies carrot cultivation from sowing to harvesting, storage and marketing.