The ClimateHOOD Project Has Been Nominated for the Blue Compass Award!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
With its ClimateHOOD<\/a> project, the Technical University of Berlin is among the 25 nominees for the Community Award of the \u201cBlauer Kompass\u201d Federal Prize<\/a>. Now it\u2019s time for the public to show its support: From June 16 to June 23, 2026, you can vote for ClimateHOOD in the online poll.<\/p>\n The \u201cBlauer Kompass\u201d Federal Award is Germany\u2019s highest government honor for projects focused on prevention and adaptation to the effects of climate change. The competition is sponsored by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety in collaboration with the Federal Environment Agency. The award recognizes innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions that help address climate impacts such as heat, drought, and heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n With ClimateHOOD<\/a>, TU Berlin, in collaboration with the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf District Office, demonstrates how research, public administration, and urban society can work together to implement concrete climate adaptation measures in urban areas. To this end, exemplary blue-green infrastructure is being developed on TU Berlin\u2019s South Campus based on the \u201csponge city\u201d principle: rainwater is collected, stored, and used for irrigation and to cool the urban environment. Reed beds, mini-forests, urban wetlands, retention roofs, edible green facades, and cisterns combine structural measures with nature-based solutions.<\/p>\n A particular focus is placed on the transferability of the measures. The campus serves as a real-world laboratory where climate adaptation is made visible, tangible, and scientifically monitored. The project is complemented by the collaboratively developed digital ClimateTOOL, which supports municipal stakeholders in planning and evaluating climate adaptation measures. Participatory formats, workshops, training sessions, and collaborations with local partners ensure that knowledge from research is quickly put into practice and shared with the urban community, fostering an active climate-conscious neighborhood.<\/p>\n Online voting now offers the opportunity to directly support ClimateHOOD. The project with the most votes will receive the \u201cCommunity Prize,\u201d prize money of 25,000 EUR, and will subsequently be excluded from the jury\u2019s deliberations. Each person can vote once for their favorite project using their email address.<\/p>\n