The all-rounder
She worked as part of the for fellow students, mediated and organized. Even before she started her studies, Lena Heisler was involved in the student council. With the beginning of civil engineering After studying at the TH Lübeck, she continued on this path and joined the building trades department. Lena Heisler can also realize her many voluntary projects with the support of the Deutschlandstipendium. At the university, she quickly took over a department in her student council in order to promote the optimization of everyday student life. She is now a member of the board and is responsible for improved communication and organization within the department. Lena says:
The work in university policy committees and numerous committee meetings are also in the foreground, but I also represent the student body at student council conferences throughout Germany.”
Linking the student council work with her interests in climate protection – that was the next step for Lena Heisler. She contributes her ideas to the university initiative Students for Sustainability (S4S). The aim of S4S is to make the university and the Lübeck region more sustainable with small and large projects and thus better for future generations. There, too, she quickly took on a managerial position in order to come closer to this major and important goal with consistent steps. Lena describes:
Last year, for example, I had the opportunity to represent S4S at the Lübeck Climate Forum and make a large number of new contacts.”
The sporty one
3,2,1 – go! Levent Plate is studying for a bachelor’s degree Industrial Engineering Online and supervises a running group on a voluntary basis as deputy division manager. The recipient of the Deutschlandstipendium has organized several runs in recent years. These include, for example, the HafenCity Run charity run in Hamburg. But that wasn’t far enough for the group. In the summer, his team went from Hamburg to St. Peter-Ording overnight in the world’s largest relay race series.
A challenge launched by Levent Plate has been running since January 1, 2021. The joint campaign is about rebuilding your own fitness and motivating new people to run. The aim is to get a little more mileage every week. One participant has improved from the usual 5 km to 21 km in one go. In total, the group ran almost 9,300 km.