Eucor MobiLab Roadshow

Under the title “Industrial urbanity and climate resilience” the MobiLab is making a stopover in Strasbourg for three days of collective exploration around urban and ecological transitions. This immersive edition, designed as an interactive traveling exhibition, promotes an entrepreneurial culture and awareness of climate risks in the Upper Rhine region. It addresses the question of how regions can adapt to climate change through the lens of industrial urbanity.

At the heart of the discussions: living soils, their governance and their role in territorial resilience. Flooding, unsealing, water quality, air quality, infiltration, materials: these are all challenges linked to soil nature and its ability to integrate green infrastructures. These issues are explored through innovative concepts and technologies such as the “sponge city” or “sponge pavements” as well as through the use of sustainable, adaptive, and innovative materials. Rhine port areas and economic areas serve as reflection spaces for concrete demonstrators.

An interactive exhibition area will complement the program with immersive stations on crisis management (e.g. floods), educational games on the carbon footprint, climate frescoes and the presentation of open-source tools such as the Landing Game, Climat Inspector, and Climat Diag.

The program is divided into varied daily sections: mornings – meetings with regional companies; afternoons – bike tours, mobile workshops, on-site demonstrations and evenings – festive afterworks, conferences, discussions and music.

• Port du Rhin

• Partner institutions : INSA Strasbourg, Clim'Ability Care, Agence d'urbanisme de Strasbourg Rhin supérieur (ADEUS), Agence du climat (Eurométropole de Strasbourg), AMUP, Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications, CCI Alsace Eurométropole

The Mobilab will make a stop in Mulhouse from October 9 to 11, 2025. The event will be held as part of the Village des Sciences, organized by La Nef des sciences on the occasion of the Fête de la science. It will invite the public to reflect on the challenges of industry in urban areas, particularly in relation to water management and air quality. Meetings with researchers and experts in the field will provide a better understanding of the impacts of industrial activity on our everyday environment. The public will be able to discover ongoing initiatives, research prospects, and experimental approaches to help evolve our ways of producing and living in cities.

The Clim’Ability Care project will be a key partner in this phase, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration. In addition, we invite industrial stakeholders and partners to visit the MobiLab and to join us for a convivial breakfast followed by a mini-conference on Thursday, 9 October.

• Campus Fonderie

• Partner institutions : Clim'Ability Care, CCI Alsace Eurométropole

During KIT Science Week 2025, the MobiLab will be visiting Karlsruhe with the theme ‘Urban nature of the future’.

At the ‘mobile participation laboratory’ in Karlsruhe, we offer you a variety of opportunities to think your way into the urban nature and blue-green urban infrastructure of the future: What ecosystems will do what for our urban life? How can we deal with the heat and increasing heavy rainfall events in cities? What is the role of animals in the city?

In addition to information and advice, there will also be plenty of opportunities to get involved: For example, finding and identifying insects - in a competition with a robot! Explore Friedrichsplatz from the perspective of non-human creatures! Develop ideas for the redesign of Friedrichsplatz and share them with others! Discover the blue-green infrastructure of the city of Karlsruhe using unsealing maps for the Friedrichsplatz area! Join us in a dialogue about what ‘urban nature’ could look like in the future.

• Friedrichsplatz

The 2-channel video projection BECOMING RIVER by Daniel Fetzner, Janna Häcker, Sebastian Lindlar, and Adrian Schwartz was on show during the ‘SHORTS’ trinational film festival of Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in the MobiLab daily from 12 noon to 8 pm. On 14 May at 6 pm, there was an on-site introduction in the presence of the artists.

About the project: ‘The unconscious becomes tangible in dreams. Something inside us is stirred up. Not consciously, but in chaos. Images, language and physical experiences are storage media. The return of the repressed happens in free flow - memories, fears and cultural symbols overlap. BECOMING RIVER evokes the ghosts of our culture of denial along the course of the river Murg in the Black Forest.’

The installation was created as part of research by Daniel Fetzner, Adrian Schwartz, Janna Häcker, Simon Feller and Ephraim Wegner (http://becomingriver.com) at the Laboratory for Media Ecology (Offenburg University of Applied Sciences). Over the course of three years, they researched life on, in and around the course of the Murg river and documented the goings-on of the river and its inhabitants.

• Bürgerpark

On the occasion of the Study Information Day of the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) , the MobiLab will be making a stop in Landau. Together with school pupils, students, and researchers, we are looking forward to a varied and informative programme centered around the theme of sustainability:

Researchers from the RPTU’s Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences will provide vivid and relatable insights into the topic of PFAS chemicals. Together with researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie (KIT), they will discuss possible solutions and explore how citizen science can be integrated into scientific research on the environmental toxicity of PFAS.

Experts from the city of Landau will offer practical, citizen-oriented advice on climate adaptation, energy savings at home, and the city's ongoing climate protection measures. The RPTU’s PhysicsLab school laboratory invites in particular pupils to take part in a Green Energy Workshop.

Furthermore, the Green Office of RPTU offers an escape game where participants must protect a city from a flood.

The forest component of the Clim'Ability Care project provides information about climatic stressors and answers citizens' questions.

And last but not least, the world-famous serious game ‘Climate Fresk’ will be presented in the form of a climate quiz. The Study Information Day will be rounded off on June 3rd in the evening with a casual get-together at the MobiLab, featuring singer and songwriter ‘joonas’ from Landau.

• RPTU Landau Campus

• Partner institutions : University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Ecotoxicology & Environment working group of the RPTU, Green Office of the RPTU, Ville de Landau, Climate office of the city of Landau, INSA Strasbourg, Clim'Ability Care

Get ready for an exciting journey into the future of healthcare! The MobiLab will be visiting Basel and invites everyone to explore the cutting-edge world of ‘The Future of Medicine’. The Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will showcase the latest advancements in operation technology from the Upper Rhine region, offering fresh insights into pioneering research.

The program has something for everyone, from kids to adults! You’ll have the chance to interact with the latest technologies, including 3D printing, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, laser technology, and robotics, in a fun and engaging way. Join the conversation with scientists, researchers and clinicians, and dive into hands-on activities that will spark your creativity.

• Theaterplatz

• Partner institutions : MIRACLE^II - Department of Biomedical Engineering (University of Basel), University Hospital Basel, University Children's Hospital Basel, EPICUR

The MobiLab is coming to Freiburg under the motto ‘Sustainability finds the city’. Among other things, posters, surveys and a ‘science bench’ invite science and the public to engage in dialogue. The driving forces behind the event are projects from the Innovation Campus Sustainability (ICN), INTERREG projects, other research projects in the field of sustainability and the city of Freiburg.

On 24 and 25 July, the ICN project ZUKAMAS will be running the station: under the heading ‘Future-oriented climate change management for urban green spaces’, everything will revolve around the question of how green spaces and urban trees contribute to adaptation to climate change.

• Platz der alten Synagoge

• Partner institutions : City of Freiburg, Sustainability Innovation Campus (ICN)