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HHU in the Top 10 - New record in the city cycling race

This tree is actually called Radbaum, lat. Trochodendron aralioides. It stands in the Botanical Garden of Heinrich Heine University (HHU) and Renato Vukovic is its godfather. The PhD student from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences achieved 1,392 kilometres in the city cycling competition. As the winner, he receives the sponsorship and a voucher. The HHU team came in 10th place in the Düsseldorf municipality. Remarkable: a total of 29,344.2 kilometres were cycled by 145 people - this corresponds to a distance to the South Pole and back. Which has a wonderful effect.

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[Translate to English:] Baumpatenschaft für ein Jahr: Renato Vukovic (Mitte) schnitt am besten beim Stadtradeln 2023 im Team der HHU ab und wurde dafür mit Heidrun Riese und Stephan Raub im Botanischen Garten geehrt.

Because with a total of 3,158 journeys, 4,716.6 kg of CO2 were saved by the active cyclists compared to journeys by car. Second place in the HHU team went to Heidrun Riese with 1,216.2 km; she receives a voucher for the Cycles bicycle shop. And in third place came Stephan Raub with 988.7 km; he too can look forward to a Cycles voucher.

Another five active cyclists will each receive a surprise package from the HCSD by random draw. They were informed by mail. With 1,392, Renato Vukovic achieved the highest kilometres per capita in his one-man sub-team "Dialog Systems and Machine Learning" during the three-week campaign period. The PhD student named himself after his working group with Prof. Dr. Milica Gašić. He gave up all other means of transport especially for the city cycling and also covered longer distances by bike.

"It's great that so many HHU members took part - we're already looking forward to city cycling in 2024," says team leader Lara Müller. On 12 July, the tree sponsorship, which is valid for one year, was activated at a photo session.

All sub-teams of the team "Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)":
- University and State Library (ULB)
- ZIM
- Botanical Garden of the HHU
- Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of Law
- SPV
- Medichor HHU
- ハインリヒ・ハイネ・ファイターズ (Modern Japan)
- KHG Düsseldorf


Active together
At HHU, city cycling is a joint effort by institutions and individuals: Heine Center for Sustainable Development (HCSD), University Sports, University and State Library (ULB), Botanical Garden and Press and Communications Office.

Author: Editorial Office/KK

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[Translate to English:] Detail des Radbaums, lat. Trochodendron aralioides

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