HAIlights
Looking for some culture, city history, university life, facts and figures, professional or entertaining things to do after work? Then why not visit a HAIlight!
In the event series “HAIlight” we have been taking a look behind the scenes of the university together with you for more than 10 years now to brush up memories and discover sides of Ruperto Carola, that have been unrevealed during your time here. We get to know new sides of Heidelberg or gain exciting insights into life and work of our members and other people associated with the university. Be in for a surprise!
Current HAIlight
Swimming for the environment – 2,700 km in the Danube
Documentary film by and with alumnus Andreas Fath
When: Wednesday, 23 October 2024 – 7 p.m.
Where: Gloria Cinema Heidelberg
Alumnus Andreas Fath, chemistry professor and passionate long-distance swimmer, repeatedly attracts attention with spectacular swimming campaigns in the service of water protection. His latest transnational project "cleandanube", in which he swam around 2,700 kilometres down the Danube to draw attention to microplastic pollution, has resulted in a documentary film that will be exclusively shown in cooperation with Heidelberg's Gloria cinema as HAIlight. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Andreas Fath and Max Jungmann, Managing Director of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) at Heidelberg University, in which both will talk about the background and experiences of the campaign.
The Danube washes more than four tonnes of plastic into the Black Sea every day – that's more plastic particles than fish larvae. Andreas Fath retraced their path to a certain extent when he swam the entire swimmable stretch of the river from its source in the Black Forest to its mouth in the Black Sea for two months in spring 2022, travelling through ten countries in the process. The journey included a mobile laboratory to regularly analyse water samples, an interactive knowledge workshop and information materials, as well as events such as swimming and paddling activities and lectures in collaboration with local organisations at numerous stops along the way.
Already in autumn 2018, the documentary film "Two Rivers – One Mission" was shown as part of the HCE colloquium "Heidelberg Bridge", which focused on Andreas Fath's first two swimming campaigns: in 2014 he swam the entire length of the Rhine and in 2017 the Tennessee River in the USA to draw attention to water protection. Andreas Fath, who studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg from 1986 and received his doctorate from Ruperto Carola, is a professor of chemistry at Furtwangen University, where he works primarily on water analyses and wastewater technology.
Please note: the HAIlight will be conducted in German.
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