more NRW legislators. Ten of them just spent three exciting days in Minnesota and came away impressed. In July, Minnesota’s new lieutenant governor visited NRW on her first international trip. It clicked. And you are part of this growing CSM family. Ahead of us is a full week of learning and working together [...] public-private partnerships may create new jobs, and how to assure sustainable state finances. Last month, she and 10 other members of her NRW-USA visited Minnesota. Alfons Guennigmann is a member of the board of the registered nonprofit friends association Förderverein Klimakommune Saerbeck e.V. He served [...] managing director of TAFH Münster GmbH, a private sector entity the university created to support in- novation and develop pilot projects. In August, he visited Minnesota to explore opportunities for research cooperation with Minnesota. Max Schüssler is a research associate in mechanical engineering at the

between Minnesota, at that time also Georgia, and North-Rhine Westphalia was signed. He has since accompanied the Minnesota group every year when they visited their counterparts in North- Rhine Westphalia. Kristen Mroz is the local government coordinator for the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, a state [...] but does much more than that. Among other things, our local group has made contacts with members of the European Parliament and several times has visited with parliamentarians at the EU Parliament. In addition to the EU level, we are of course also involved in the municipality. We try to get involved [...] between Minnesota, at that time also Georgia, and North-Rhine Westphalia was signed. He has since accompanied the Minnesota group every year when they visited their counterparts in North-Rhine Westphalia. Shannon Mortenson is city administrator and clerk- treasurer for Warren, a small community of 1600 residents

energy on the roof of the building was able to essentially achieve net zero for the manufacturing facility. And while this was a new fact that we visited today – that’s only 18 months old – this idea, the owner had started in the 70s. I asked him tonight, what inspired him and it was really two things