Know-How-Transfer

Once a year, the Foundation organises a symposium focusing on topical issues relating to the cities. Future issues, approaches to solving current problems, and the result of the surveys conducted by the Foundation are discussed by representatives from the worlds of culture, politics, business and society. These fruitful discussions are made available to a wide specialist readership through the “Lebendige Stadt” journal.

Expert meeting

Round table

The climate-smart city

Action strategies for districts Location: Biosphäre, Potsdam Presentation of the Foundation Award: The Most Digital City Location: Orangery Palace, Potsdam

Climate protection is one of the world’s most pressing problems, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that climate protection is “everyone’s business.” So how can the municipalities help to tackle this global issue? What strategies exist for city districts? How does intelligent traffic management work? How can cities make their public transport systems fit for the future? What about “cradle to cradle” waste avoidance? These are just some of the questions we look forward to discussing with you at the event in Potsdam.

19. September 2018

Presentation of the Foundation Award: The Most Digital City

Location: Orangery Palace, Potsdam

19.00 p.m.
Get-Together

20.00 p.m.
SPEAKERS

TORSTEN ALBIG

Former Minister President Schleswig-Holstein

DR. HANSPETER GEORGI

Former Minister of Economy, Saarland

KASPAR KRAEMER

Dipl.-Ing. Architekt BDA, Kaspar Kraemer Architekten

DR. EVA LOHSE

Former Lady Mayor of Ludwigshafen

DR. ANDREAS MATTNER

Chairman of the Board of the "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

ALEXANDER OTTO

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

KATHRIN SCHNEIDER

Minister Brandenburg

20. September 2018

Kongress: THE CLIMATE-FRIENDLY CITY

Location: Biosphäre, Potsdam

10.00 a.m.
WORDS OF WELCOME AND OVERALL MODERATION

DR. ANDREAS MATTNER

Chairman of the Board of "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

10.10 a.m.
WELCOME ADDRESS

BURKHARD EXNER

Mayor of Potsdam

10.20 a.m.
KEYNOTE-SPEECH

DR. ROBERT HABECK

Chairman BÜNDNIS90 / DIE GRÜNEN

10.40 a.m.
IT'S IN YOUR HANDS – WHAT CAN THE MUNICIPALITIES ACHIEVE

RITA SCHWARZELÜHR-SUTTER

Parliamentary State Secretary at Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

11.00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
COMMUNICATION AND COFFEE BREAK

11.40 a.m.
HOW ARE CITIES MAKING PUBLIC TRANSPORT FIT FOR FUTURE?

JÜRGEN FENSKE

President, Association of German Transport Companies (VDV)

12.00 noon
INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT – HOW CAN IT WORK?

ALEXANDRA HILS

Head of Innovation Germany Cisco GmbH

in conversation with

DR. LUTZ TRÜMPER

Lord Mayor of Magdeburg

MODERATION

HILMAR VON LOJEWSKI

Councilor for urban development, habitation and traffic, Association of German Cities

12.20 p.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION: GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM – CRADLE TO CRADLE – WASTE AVOIDANCE – ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS DON'T JUST BEGIN WHEN THE BUILDING IS FINISHED

OPENING STATEMENT AND MODERATION

DR. MONIKA GRIEFAHN

Former minister of state, Chairwoman of cradle to cradle

PROF. HARALD KÄCHELE

President, Environmental Action Germany (DUH)

HERWART WILMS

Member of the Management Board of REMONDIS Assets & Services, and Vice-President of the Federal Association of German Waste Disposal, Water and Raw Materials Management (BDE)

13.10 p.m. - 14.10 p.m.
LUNCH

14.10 p.m.
ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THE 2019 CONFERENCE

ALEXANDER OTTO

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM...

14.20 p.m.
...THE "EUREF-CAMPUS ZOLLVEREIN" IN ESSEN?