Students:Day 2

Today was perhaps the most demanding day of the field trip, as it required sitting through a number of presentations inside a room at the University of Graz on what was an extraordinarily hot day. Our bus driver dropped us off at the university in good time and we met up with our Austrian hosts, Marlene Mader and Mario Diethart, before the scheduled start of 9.30. Marlene gave us a quick overview of the week's events before both she and Mario took us on a tour of the University of Graz campus, pointing out the various sustainability aspects the university has introduced or is pursuing. We were lucky that the university year hadn't started yet and so had the campus mostly to ourselves. We then settled back into our classroom and listened to Marlene's first presentation on the university itself, including its history