Special Events

After eight years, UNITECR returns to Germany. On the evening before the conference, the focus will be on reuniting and networking. Not least because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, all participants are looking forward to this welcome evening to meet colleagues from their professional life and also friends again face to face.
The doors at Kap Europa will be open from 05.00 PM.

With our lead topic The Carbon Challenge we have defined three pillars for the UNITECR opening: political framework and customer orientation as well as resilience and sustainability.

We are glad to have Dr. Marie Jaroni representing a major customer industry with her keynote. Leading the team “Decarbonization and Sustainability” at thyssenkrupp Steel she will explain how six million tons of CO₂ can be avoided by thyssenkrupp annually by 2030.

Moreover it was possible to win Ranga Yogeshwar for a keynote. With a degree in particle physics Ranga created and hosted numerous television programs and has received more than 60 awards, including honorary doctorates from the universities of Koblenz-Landau and Wuppertal as well as an honorary professorship from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. Today he is one of the leading independent science journalists and keynote speakers in Germany.

Parliamentary State Secretary Michael Kellner from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action will give a political perception on our lead topic via video.

11.15 AM – 12.00 AM
Ranga Yogeshwar
Science Journalist / Physicist
Emil’s World – A Society in Transition
About the urgent need of a deeper culture-shift and what it means to grow up surrounded with talking devices, artificial intelligence and changing social interactions.

THURSDAY 28^TH SEPTEMBER
06.30 PM – 00.00 AM, Gesellschaftshaus Palmengarten
Palmengartenstraße 11, 60325 Frankfurt am Main

On Thursday, a very special dinner will take place in Frankfurts Palmengarten. A fantastic location, with excellent food, delicious drinks and a music program worth hearing guarantee a lasting impression for all participants.

It is not held as a well seated Gala Dinner but rather as a dynamic meet and greet, so that there is the opportunity to maintain contacts and make new ones at many tables.

After a casual reception with an aperitif on the terrace, the historic ballroom with its magnificent ornaments from the Neo-Renaissance invites you to linger. Besides impressions of the congress day and the official welcome of the UNITECR hosts, a creative buffet with regional and seasonal delicacies awaits you.

The special setting in this building is underlined by the award of the UNITECR certificates to the three nominated Distinguished Life Members (DLM). A second highlight is the presentation of the next UNITECR location for the year 2025.

The Conference Dinner is always a main highlight at UNITECR events – in addition to the scientific lectures, of course. Here, too, is room for debate about what has been heard so far. Speakers, poster exhibitors and guests can engage in discussions with each other.

From 09.00 PM., as an exclusive highlight, the legendary Palm House Terrace will be available for dancing. Surrounded by beautiful Wilhelminian time plant stands and to the sounds and tunes of a Frankfurt scene DJ, the evening guarantees a very good mood.

The doors of the Palmengarten will be open from 06.30 PM.