TUM DeSal Challenge

TUM DeSal ChallengeA Novel Educational Campaign for and with Students to Face Water Scarcity

Who will be able to supply drinking water without the use of fossil energy at low costs and with minimum efforts?

32 Editorial

Meeting the worldwide demand for energy and water is the biggest challenge of this century. Technische Univer-sität München is strongly committed to research on tech-nologies providing sustainable solutions. The Institute of Thermodynamics contributes to this research in the areas of Combustion, Thermo Acoustics, Transport Phenome-na and Energy as well as Environmental Technologies. To provide the educational basis required for research in the energy and water sector, we offer lectures including Thermodynamics, Heat- and Mass-Transfer, Multi-Pha-se-Flow as well as Solar Engineering and Desalination. Among our research projects, we are active in desalinati-on, both thermal and membrane based, also being sup-ported with renewable energy.

The TUM DeSal Challenge to date has been a unique competition that was created for drawing attention to the challenge of the worldwide water shortage. This event took place for the first time in 2009. As the competition was very well received by high school students, univer-sity students and others, we decided to repeat the Chal-lenge every two to three years.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Sattelmayer Head of the Institute of Thermodynamics

Dr.-Ing. Markus Spinnler Head of the Solar and Desalination Research Center

10 to 20 teams from schools and universities are nomi-nated to challenge the global drinking water problem and to develop and build each a small, self-powered plant for seawater desalination. The competition is accompanied by the TUM DeSal Conference in the area of desalination and water treat-ment focusing on strategies and technologies with low impact on the environment.”This new educational approach is focusing on young peo-ple to integrate them in the process of solving the problem of water scarcity, which is mainly promoted by research and industry. We want to provide a valuable platform for high schools, universities and industry.In hosting the TUM DeSal Challenge, we look forward to fostering partnerships and networks within the desalina-tion community.

4 5The TUM DeSal Challenge

Milestones for TUM DeSal Challenge 2016

Since 2009, around 10 to 20 student teams per compe-tition provide their own, novel solution for sustainable seawater desalination exclusively by means of renewable energies. They develop extremely creative, innovative concepts for the construction of energy-self-sufficient desalination plants. When the Call for Applications opens, student teams send their ideas to the TUM DeSal Challenge whe-re an independent jury of specialists, consisting of top-flight personalities from the areas of scientific research and industries, selects the best ideas. During the applica-tion period, the challenge is planned to be accompanied by Webinars which provide students with the necessary fundamentals on desalination. Depending on the available funding and the originality of the concepts handed in, 10 to 20 teams are selected for the competition’s final. Those teams finally realize their theoretical concepts. Each team is funded with a starting capital of 1,000 EUR to build their

plants – money acquired by the TUM DeSal Challenge organization beforehand. A kick-off meeting with the par-ticipating teams during the World Water Day brings the competitors together to enhance team spirit as well as the opportunity to exchange experiences and ideas. On the two-days-final, the competition is accompanied by a scientific conference on desalination, the TUM De-Sal Conference. The conference deadlines are synchro-nized with the ones of the challenge. The scientific pro-gram focuses on discussion about “Desalination Systems with Transient Power Supply”, the conference topic of 2011, or, more generally, about “Desalination and Water Treatment” in 2013. Accompanied by an exhibition area for sponsors’ booths, this provides a platform for both, industry and research. In the TUM DeSal Exhibition, sponsors have the opportunity to present their business as well as their products. Additionally, in 2011, the TUM DeSal Kids Program, was held the first time, where even

The TUM DeSal Challenge

TUM DeSal Challenge

Mission

There are five main objectives of TUM DeSal Challenge. First of all, the main goal of the competition is to inform young people in schools and universities worldwide about the danger of the drinking water scarcity and to motivate them to contribute to the question of how to tackle the task.Special attention is drawn to a responsible and econo-mical use of natural resources in combination with the technology of seawater desalination, which results in the development of systems powered by regenerative forms of energy for the decentralized operation in economically weak regions.By putting emphasis on training the team participants, la-test results of research feed into the contest entries and

create new, innovative approaches. Eventually, the plan is to develop new ideas. These are going to be expanded to research projects in cooperation with the participants from the competition and ultimately to be commercialized.Young people, especially the participants from high schools, get in touch with science and engineering in a very early stage. For engineering students, cost calcula-tions and business plan workshops make them aware of the importance of business management skills.Last but not least, attention of the general public has to be drawn to the growing issues of drinking water scarcity in the world. Participants as well as visitors create great publicity which carries idea of the challenge into the wide world.

kindergarten kids explored over several months the se-crets of water and worked with solar stills discovering desalination science.Over 250 students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain joined the TUM DeSal Challenges in 2009 to 2013. In 2013, the range of countries of origin extended even further to Serbia, Morocco, Spain and Australia. In 2016, the contest is aimed to expand even more.

Preliminary Program for 2-Days-Final of TUM DeSal Challenge and TUM DeSal Conference

Day before Event

18:00 Dinner with TUM DeSal Challenge jury members

and conference speakers

Day 1 TUM DeSal Challenge TUM DeSal Conference

7:00 – 10:30 Start-Up

Building up of desalinati-

on plants by TUM DeSal

Challenge teams.

Registration of TUM

DeSal Conference parti-

cipants and building up

of exhibition booths by

DeSal sponsors.

10:30 - 11:15 Opening Ceremony and Welcome Address

11:15 - 16:00 TUM DeSal

Challenge (Part I)

Visiting DeSal Challenge

and DeSal Exhibition.

Fresh water produc-

tion by DeSal plants;

evaluation of different

contributions by the jury.

Visiting the DeSal

Challenge plants during

operation and DeSal

Sponsors’ booths at

Exhibition

16:00 - 17:00 Team Presentations at Conference

Oral Presentations of TUM DeSal Challenge teams:

innovative DeSal concepts are presented by the

student teams.

Conference Session 1: Scientific Topic 1

17.00 - 17.20 Visiting the TUM DeSal

Conference and Exhi-

bition.

Presentation 1

17:20 - 17:40 Presentation 2



17.00 - 17.20 Visiting the TUM DeSal


bition.

Presentation 4



19:00 DeSal Summer Festival with Barbecue and Band

Day 2 TUM DeSal Challenge TUM DeSal Conference

8:00 - 10:00 Breakfast

TUM DeSal Challenge (Part II)

Conference Session 3: Company and Sponsor Presentations

10:00 - 10:20 Fresh water produc-

tion by DeSal plants;

evaluation of different

contributions by the jury.

Company 1

10:20 - 10:40 Company 2

10:40 - 11:00 Company 3

11:00 - 11:20 Company 4

11:20 - 11:40 Company 5

11:40 - 12:00 Company 6

12:00 - 13:00 Visiting DeSal Challenge

and Exhibition.

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break


14:00 - 14:30 Visiting the TUM DeSal


bition.

Presentation 7



15.30 - 16.30 Award Ceremony TUM DeSal Challenge and DeSal Conference Best Paper Award

6 7The TUM DeSal Challenge The TUM DeSal Challenge

Disciplines

The TUM DeSal Challenge ends up with a great 2-days-final in Munich when the nominated teams run their self-developed and self-constructed desalination plants com-peting in six categories against each other:

1. Drinking Water Capacity and Quality 2. Cost Planning3. Maintenance Effort, Ease of Use and Installation4. Degree of Innovation5. Design and Engineering6. Communication

Exclusion criteria are the water quality (salinity level < 1,000 ppm) as well as an energy independent operation driven only by renewable energy sources. In order to guarantee the feasibility of the concept in developing countries and to assure a largely fair competition, it is not allowed to exceed the costs of 2,000 EUR. Each team is funded with a starting capital of 1,000 EUR for building their plants.

Milestones 2016 Jury Members 2009 to 2013TUM DeSal Challenge 2016 TUM DeSal Conference 2016 TUM DeSal Exhibition 2016 (2 Days Final)

Building of DeSal Plants by Students

Kick-Off Team Meeting on World Water Day

Nomination of Challenge Participants and Conference Presenters (Press Conference)

Evaluation by DeSal Jury

Deadline for Applications and Abstracts ([email protected])

Webinars on Desalination

Call for Applications and Abstracts (www.desalchallenge.com)

17th /18th June 2016

22nd March 2016

15th February 2016

1st December 2015

1st September 2015

Claus Mertes

Deutsche Meerwasser-Entsalzung GmbH

Prof. Dr. Oliver Mayer

General Electric Global Research

Dr. Bruno Schiebelsberger

Solarenergieförderverein Bayern e.V.

Dr. Paul Schausberger

UNIHA Wasser Technologie GmbH

Dr. Christian Weidl

BASF SE Ludwigshafen

Dr. Joachim Koschikowski

Fraunhofer-Institute for Solar Energy Systems

Prof. Matthias Rommel

HRS Hochschule für Technik, Rapperswil

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8 9Development in Numbers Development in Numbers

Numbers of Applications Numbers of Accepted Applications Range of DeSal Technologies Range of Power Supply

TUM DeSal Challenges in Numbers

Having a look at the received and accepted applications to the TUM DeSal Challenge, a nice trend to international diversity of the participating teams can be seen. Whereas the event was a quite regional phenomenon in 2009 (half of the applications by TUM students), in 2013 it was pos-sible to reach one of the main goals, which was to excite

many young people in different regions of the world, star-ting with Switzerland, Austria and Spain in 2011. In 2013, the geographic range was even extended to Morocco and Serbia. Every team consists up to 7 team members. In total, around 100 students are involved each competition.

The great variety of competing teams and their tech-nical concepts represent the full range of desalination methods: membrane systems such as reverse osmosis plants, even membrane distillation, but also a large num-ber of thermal systems, from the more classical “Impro-ved Solar Still” to the humid air distillation up to exotics like the freezing method are being developed. This does not only show how detailed and technically adept nowa-days young people deal with the solutions for providing drinking water, but also that they are ready to strike new paths.

Due to the rule that the desalination systems have to be powered by renewable energy supply, many teams focus on solar energy, both photovoltaics and solar thermal. Biomass, e.g. burning of wood, or muscle power, e.g. pumping by hand, are also applied. The jury had to smile when evaluating a team powering their plant by riding a bicycle (but drinking more water than producing).

The idea of the TUM DeSal Challenge was born in January 2009. It resulted in the first final in July 2009 and has been further developed to a great extent. While the host of this competition is Lehrstuhl für Thermodynamik of Technische Universität München (TUM), the main part is organized on a voluntary basis by averagely ten TUM students.

10 11SponsorenBenefits

Public Relations

The TUM DeSal Challenge addresses various channels of public releations – email, homepage, newsletter, stu-dent online platforms, social media e.g. facebook, xing, press conferences, press reports, printing materials, TV reports and further more. It is accompanied by scientific publications and conference oral presentations, latest at the IDA World Congress in China 2013. Very important for the success of this educational cam-paign is the spreading of its idea and thus the interest of national and international press. While regional newspa-pers report mostly about the teams and their perfor-mance at the competition, associations like the Deutsche MeerwasserEntsalzung e.V. transport the idea of the

competition to the national and international desalination community. ChemistryViews, for example, documents the contribution of the different teams by video, beginning in 2011, and reports about the competition in the web. Te-levision like Aljazeera TV and Pro7 (Galileo) come to the final event and report about the great innovations disco-vered by the students within this campaign. In 2013, even the heute.de journal (German national news) reported about the competition.

More impressions as well as references from press can be found on our website www.desalchallenge.com.

Benefits

• TUM DeSal Challenge has developed to a great plat-form for around 100 students per competition to expe-riment with different ideas.

• The TUM DeSal Conference as scientific conference accompanied by the competition guarantees the ex-change and networking spirit between young and inno-vative students and experienced professionals.

• For research institutes and industries, this event is the ideal platform to get in touch with highly committed and creative students and young professionals.

• Every competition, at least one team handed in a patent to maintain long-term benefit of their innovative ideas.

• The great final of the TUM DeSal Challenge multiplies the project’s idea and rises awareness and public in-terest to water shortages and desalination not just of participants, but also visitors, jury members, sponsors and press.

• The awards for innovation and market relevance em-phasize the focus on new ideas with a high potential to be further developed and commercialized.

• Young people get in touch with science and business issues in this international and interdisciplinary compe-tition already during school time.

» It was a great experience, both with my friends in the team and the actual flair on the competition. I learned a lot technologically but even more about myself, team leading, team characters, industry relations and the process of innovation and development. «

» I would recommend projects like this not only for the desalination challenge but as a fixed part of our studies - for example instead of a semester thesis. «

( Daniel Wiegand, Leader of Team Wasserbrennerei in 2013, Winner of the Award for Market Relevance )

» During my studies, the competition aroused my fascinati-on for seawater desalination. I was given the chance to de-velop new ideas in a team and to gather valuable practical project experiences. Now, I am working in the desalination business. «

( Markus Wenzel, Leader of the Team Zyklon in 2011 and Team CIS in 2009 )

» The TUM DeSal Challenge was a great oppor-tunity to get in contact with other people who share the same interests in causing a positive progress in the worldwide problem of water shortage. It was interesting to see various desalination machines. Especially how each team solved the challenges of designing such a machine was really interesting. Our desalination machine is exhibited at our University in Heiden-heim. Unfortunately, we aren’t able to improve our machine because we finished our studies short time after the competition and now each team member is studying/working in a different part of Germany. But the project is still develo-ped further by other students in Heidenheim in student research projects. «

( Florian Frühsammer, Leader of the Team Drink of Water in 2013 )

» As a participant of the „TUM DeSal Challenge“ I had the chance to understand how the different desalination techno-logies work, especially the one my plant is based on. It‘s a sophisticated task to design, construct and run a renewable energy based desalination plant. The „TUM DeSal Challen-ge“ is a great chance to implement your interpretation of an energy efficient and modular plant. The 1. price at the „TUM DeSal Challenge“ promoted my design of a modular thermal membrane distillation plant immensely. Today we are working in three teams on the development of the plant. It is our goal to optimize the geometry as well as the membrane and after that to erect a pilot plant. «

( Raphael Tarek Wagensonner, Leader of the Team NanoSystems in 2013, 1st Winner of the Competition )

» The TUM DeSal Challenge was a great oppor-tunity to get involved in an interesting hands-on project and to intensify the curriculum. Skills you won’t find in a textbook and therefore an experience that made a difference. We handed in the patent DE102009035858A1. «

( Maximilian Strauß, Leader of the Team Solarkocher in 2009 )

» We already started with three teams and it‘s always a great honour and pleasure for us to be a part of the „Mehrwasser“ idea. The students are very motivated, they learn a lot and have fun. It‘s the best competition I know. See you 2016! «

( Christian Zillenbiller, Teacher and Leader of the High School Teams Konzentrix and Nebelhorn, in 2009, and Team FROG, in 2011 )

» I have great faith in the TUM Challenge as means of drawing youth into a better understanding of both the importance of desalination and the many challenges in its successful

implementation. I believe that the involvement of the IDA Young Leaders Program will help ensure the geographical diversity of the par-ticipants as well as provide energy necessary for successful execution of the Challenge. «

( Dr. Jim Birkett, first elected president of the International Desalination Association )

According to Participants and Friends

12 13Winner TeamsWinner Teams

Winner Teams 2009 to 2013

The Teams from 2009, 2011 and 2013 Prize for Innovation

Prize for Market Relevance

Team »Konzentrix«Humidification-Dehumidification Powered by Concentrated Solar Thermal Power

Team »Solar Tower«Solar Chimney with Integrated Humidification-Dehumidification Stage

Team »Steam«Vaporization Powered by Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Team »Solarkocher«

Improved Solar Cooker Powered by Concen-trated Solar Thermal Power

Team »NanoSystem«Membrandestillation Powered by Temperature Gradient in the Sea

Team »Turbine«Humidification-Dehumidification Powered by Concentrated Solar Thermal Power

Team »KJ5«Integrated Desalination and Greenhouse System

Team »Solar Well«Vacuum Vaporization Powered by Photovol-taic Solar Power Team »Zyklon«

Humidification-Dehumidification with Forced Convection Powered by Solar Thermal Power

Team »Wasserbrennerei«Mechanical Vapor Compression Powered by Photovoltaic Solar Power

Team »Nebelhorn«Distillation („Passarell Process“) Powered by Solar Thermal Power

Team »Super Sonic«Super Sonic Supported Humidification-Dehu-midification

Team »Radl 2.0«Membrandestillation Powered by Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal Power Team »Wasserbrennerei«

Mechanical Vapor Compression Powered by Photovoltaic Solar Power

Team »Drink of Water«Improved Solar Cooker Powered by Concen-trated Solar Thermal Power

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TUM DeSal Challenge 2009 was very successful for high school teams - position one to three of the final ranking went to them. In 2011, the performance of the university

teams became better and dominated the competition. In the latest event in 2013, universities of applied science were in the front.

14 15Financial Need Financial Need

Lessons Learned and Financial Need

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Lesons Learned

Funding Still a Challenge

Organization( Student Team on a Voluntary Basis )

Educational Spirit vs. Professionalism

Size( Number of Applications, International Diversity )

Limited

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Successfully Adapted

Feedback( Students, Jury Members, Audience, Press )

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• 2-day event• 15 teams• 1,000 € financial support for building DeSal plants for each team• 1,600 € financial support for 15 plant transports and 500 € for travel-

ling and accommodation for 70 students (one team consists of max. seven team members )

• conference• no program for kids• organizational team: 1 event coordinator (part time job, financed), 1

researcher (side job, not financed), 15 volunteer students

Financial Need

After already having organized three events, we can safely state that the challenge managed to establish itself within the desa-lination community and the res-ponse has been very promising despite an understaffed orga-nizing team. The logical step further is to advance the event onto the next level and profes-sionalize the whole organization process. Further expansion (by increasing international diversity, higher numbers of applications and participants as well as esta-blishing an exhibition for spon-sors) and efficiency (streamli-ned marketing, public relations and sponsorship acquisition) need to be accomplished. We are certain that this can only be achieved by strengthening our team with an event coordinator as well as additional funding for transport and travel expenses of the participating international student teams. Your financial donation is a vi-tal contribution to establish the TUM DeSal Challenge as the in-ternational event for young peo-ple in desalination.

16 17Sponsoring Sponsoring

Sponsoring

There are many different ways to profit from benefits of the TUM DeSal Challenge and Conference. The “sponsorship table” pro-vides a brief overview of the various possibilities.

Package “Team Support Single“ Sponsors can support single teams in building their plant (1,000 € support) plus travel ex-penses (2,000 € in average per team). The package “Team Sup-port Single” includes mentoring of the supported team before the competition’s final. This is the perfect opportunity to have an excellent contact to engaged students. The sponsor’s logo is presented on the plant of the supported team.

Package “Booth“ Sponsors ordering the package “Booth” can present their products and their business at the TUM DeSal Ex-hibition and are allowed to give contact details and product of-fers to the participating DeSal Challenge teams.

Package “Conference“ A sponsor taking the “Conference” pa-ckage saves exclusive rights for a speaking opportunity at the conference opening address, is introduced in the conference proceedings with one full page and has also the chance to for-ward job and internship offers as well as information material to the participating students. A podcast on the TUM DeSal Chal-lenge website is also included. Further benefits are listed in the sponsoring table.

Package “Prize for Innovation “ and “Prize for Market Re-levance” The sponsoring packages “Prize for Innovation” and “Prize for Market Relevance” save the exclusive right to hand over the awards for innovation and market relevance, respec-tively. An exclusive mentoring for the winner of those prizes can strengthen collaboration and exchange of ideas between sponsor and award winner. A booth at the DeSal Exhibition as well as the possibility to forward information and job offers to participating teams is included. Further benefits are listed in the sponsoring table.

Package “Public Relations” The sponsor supporting the TUM DeSal Challenge and Conference mainly in “Public Relation” is named first in press reports and other publicity. The spon-sor can hand out exclusively the Best Paper Award at the TUM DeSal Conference. Podcasts on the website as well as a brief abstract in the conference proceedings are included as well. Further benefits are listed in the sponsoring table.

Package “Team Support Building” The TUM DeSal Challen-ge teams get 1,000 € each for realizing their desalination plants. The sponsor exclusively supporting all teams in building their plants by the package “Team Support Building” has the oppor-tunity to speak at the final event’s opening and closing cerem-ony. A special advantage is the right to present the sponsor’s

logo on all desalination plants of the participating teams. An in-tensive partnership during the plant building period before the final event can provide valuable contacts to student teams who are always searching for measurement and plant equipment as well as professional advice. Further benefits are listed in the sponsoring table.

Package “Final Event” Sponsoring the “Final Event” has the advantage to hand out a prize named by the sponsor. Contacts to the teams and a speaking opportunity at the opening and closing ceremony are also guaranteed. The advantage of this sponsoring is also to present the sponsors logo preferentially on any site of the contest‘s final (information booth, summer festival band stage, umbrellas, etc.). Further benefits are listed in the sponsoring table.

Package “Professional” The sponsor investing in a professi-onal organized event, both TUM DeSal Challenge and Con-ference, by financing expenses staff saves the exclusive right to hand out the prizes for the winners ranked first, second and third. As the awarding of the prizes is one of the main interests of press, this is a very good opportunity to gain high publici-ty. Instead of money, support by manpower is valuable as well here. Further benefits are listed in the sponsoring table.

Package “Team Support International” The package “Team Support International” is very interesting for sponsors who want to have a close contact to teams, especially from abroad, as well as high publicity by handing out an own prize named by the sponsor. Speaking opportunities at the final event are guaran-teed as well. The sponsor is mainly responsible for a high geo-graphical diversity of the participating teams as he is funding the travel expenses for student team members and their desa-lination plants. His logo is presented on all desalination plants. Further benefits are listed in the sponsoring table.

Package “Principal” The “Principal” sponsor saves the exclu-sive rights on all sponsorship offers mentioned above (except for „Support“, „Team Support Single“ and „Booth“). He gets the possibility to participate in the events organization. The name of the competition will be changed to “TUM DeSal Challenge and Conference 2015 Powered by Sponsor-Name”. Further benefits are listed in the sponsoring table. The sponsor is included with his logo in the pre-event marketing campaign as well as in the final program. A banner on the DeSal Website incl. link, posters onsite at the final event and naming in press articles and social media is also offered.

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Speaking opportunity at DeSal Conference opening address

Handing out of the Best Paper Award

Handing out of the „Prize for Innovation“

Handing out of the „Prize for Market Relevance“

Handing out of the prize for winners ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd

Handing out of a prize named by sponsor

Sponsor logo on the plant of supported DeSal team

Sponsor logo on the plants of all DeSal team

Being named in first place in press reports and publications

Mentorship for supported team during the challenge

Exclusive mentorship for one of the winner teams after the challenge

Podcast on DeSal website (provided by sponsor) 1 min 10 min 2 min 2 min 3 min 5 min 10 min

Forwarding information material to participating teams 3 months

3 months

3 months

6 months

9 months

9 months

1 year 1.5 year 2 years

Forwarding job and internship offers to participating students 3 months

3 months

3 months

6 months

9 months

9 months

1 year 1.5 year

Booth with sponsors product presentation at DeSal Exhibition

Speaking opportunity at DeSal Challenge and Challenge opening and closing ceremony

2 min 2 min 4 min 6 min 12 min

New Name of Competition: „TUM DeSal Challenge and Conference 2015 Powered by Sponsor-Name“ as well

as exclusive right on sponsorship

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Contact

� Location TUM DeSal ChallengeTechnische Universität MünchenFakultät für Mathematik und InformatikBoltzmannstr. 385748 Garching, Germany

[email protected] / [email protected]

Homepagewww.desalchallenge.com /www.mehrwasser.de

Organizers

Organisation TUM DeSal Challenge | Conference | ExhibitionTechnische Universität MünchenLehrstuhl für Thermodynamik

Dr. Markus Spinnler | Alexander Kroiß | Alexander PräbstBoltzmannstraße 1585748 Garching, Germany

Tel : + 49 89 289 16237Fax: + 49 89 289 16218E-Mail : [email protected]: www.td.mw.tum.de

Imprint

PublisherLehrstuhl für Thermodynamik, Technische Universität München

Editorial OfficeAlexander Kroiß

PicturesNadine Thaler

DesignNadine Briemle

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