From green coding  to sustainable cloud solutions

Together with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN), students and lecturers from Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences are hosting an ideathon entitled ‘Green Coding & Sustainable IT Infrastructures’ at the House of Science in Bremen on 9 January. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., four exciting workshops will focus on one question: How can we make digital applications, cloud infrastructures and software development more climate-friendly and resource-efficient?

Discuss, try out and implement together

Teachers, students, IT practitioners from companies and administration, stakeholders from IT and environmental policy – and anyone who wants to help shape the digital future – are welcome to participate. Accompanied by computer science students and lecturers from Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, participants work in interdisciplinary teams on prototypical solutions – from green coding to sustainable cloud solutions. The focus is on exchange and practical experimentation as well as networking and learning. In the workshops, participants can exchange ideas with experts from science, practice and politics, including representatives of the ECO:DIGIT project and the Open Source Business Alliance. The aim is to bring together different perspectives so that green coding can be effectively anchored in education and IT practice.

Four exciting workshops

1.    Green coding in sustainable infrastructures How can distributed software architectures become more sustainable through decoupling? With Prof. Dr. Oliver Radfelder (Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences)
2.    Measuring the energy requirements of software How do we set up a hardware-independent measurement environment to compare the energy consumption of software? With Jan Ole Seutter, Franjo Gießel, Lamis Aiche & Lennart Steffen (computer science students, Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences)
3.    Consumption-conscious Sovereign Cloud Stack-compliant cloud environments How can we create sustainable cloud solutions with open source and open standards? With Josefine Kipke & Felix Kronlage-Dammers (Open Source Business Alliance & ECO:DIGIT project)
4.    Green coding skills in IT curricula How can we embed green coding in universities, IT training and continuing education? With Prof. Dr. Karin Vosseberg & Prof. Dr. Ulrike Erb (Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences)

Registration is now open

‘We have been trying for some time to integrate the issue of resource-efficient development and operation of software systems into our teaching and research,’ says co-organiser Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karin Vosseberg, who teaches computer science at Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences. ‘We are looking forward to a workshop with students and lecturers from computer science-related degree programmes, but also with interested parties from companies that develop software or operate IT infrastructures. We are excited to see the ideas we will develop together.’ Participation is free of charge. You can register now via the link below this article.  

The information at a glance

When: Friday, 9 January 2026 – 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where: Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen, Sandstraße 4/5, 28195 Bremen
Who: Teachers, students, people from the IT sector (companies, administration), people from IT and environmental policy and other interested parties

Translation by DeepL.