Northern Germany is known as a hotbed for new ideas in the renewable energy sector. The University of Applied Sciences in Stralsund, whose Masters of Science Program in Renewable Energies attracts students from all over the world, like Kongrit Mansiri from the School of Renewable

The future of power is being pioneered in the German city of Lünen where they are building a dedicated biogas network. Powered by agricultural biomass, including cow dung and horse manure, 90,000...

A group of young, up-and-coming German scientists in the late 1990s founded a company that today is the world leader in solar sludge drying. The star of the environmentally friendly drying process is an unusual pig that works all day without food or complaint.

Interested in pursuing research in alternative energy sources but having almost no chance to do so at home in Estonia, 25-year-old Priit Pikk came to Germany. Since 2007, the Automation Sciences major from the Tallinn University of Technology has been studying at the University of Applied Sciences in Stralsund. After a semester in their Masters of Science Program in Renewable Energies, Pikk currently attends — and teaches a class at — Stralsund’s Spring School. Launched ten years ago, the Spring School is an intensive international study program with 40 participants from eight universities fro