[voew-listserver] Press release: Fostering Sustainable Mobility: Policy and Research start European Expert Interchange
- From: Richard Harnisch <Richard.Harnisch@xxxxxxx>
- To: VÖW-Listserver (voew-listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) <voew-listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:33:42 +0200
Liebe VÖW-Leser/innen,
zur Kenntnis sende ich Ihnen heutige Meldung aus dem EU-Projekt CORPUS -
Enhancing the connectivity between research and policy-making in sustainable
consumption.
Beste Grüße
Richard Harnisch
Press release
Download this press release (pdf):
http://www.scp-knowledge.eu/sites/default/files/CORPUS press release
110414.pdf<http://www.scp-knowledge.eu/sites/default/files/CORPUS%20press%20release%20110414.pdf>
Fostering Sustainable Mobility: Policy and Research start European Expert
Interchange
European knowledge brokerage consortium launches series of "Policy meets
Research" workshops on sustainable mobility starting in Szentendre/Hungary on
5-6 May 2011
Berlin, 14 April 2011 - The future development of mobility faces fundamental
environmental, social and economic challenges. To support the transition
towards a more sustainable mobility system, the European consortium CORPUS has
now launched a workshop series on mobility, which aims to enhance
evidence-based policy-making in this domain. Latest research and current policy
approaches shall be connected by novel tools of knowledge brokerage. The
workshop series will bring together European experts from mobility research and
policy-making in order to facilitate knowledge sharing and community building.
The kick-off-workshop is held in Szentendre, Hungary, on 5-6 May 2011. In
parallel, a website has been established
(www.scp-knowledge.eu/section/mobility<http://www.scp-knowledge.eu/section/mobility>)
which serves as a platform for knowledge exchange and professional networking.
"The workshop aims at exploring major sustainability challenges of the mobility
domain", explains Frieder Rubik, scientist at the Berlin-based Institute for
Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and organiser of the meeting. "We discuss key
issues such as mobility-induced greenhouse-gas-emissions, current mobility
trends and foreseeable future transport demand as well as mobility-related
consumer behaviour. Our central goal is to enable direct exchange between
policy-makers and researchers and, thus, allow them to deepen their
understanding of how different factors shape sustainable mobility." Among the
key note speakers in this workshop are Dr. Udo Hartmann, Senior Manager "Group
Environmental Protection" at Daimler AG and Prof. Sebastian Bamberg from the
University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld. Interested participants may register
online.
Two subsequent workshops will take place in October 2011 and April 2012. They
will address policy strategies and instruments promoting sustainable mobility
and, finally, scenarios of sustainable mobility and their role in policy
planning. "Based on sound scientific evidence, we want to generate a concrete
picture of future sustainable mobility", states Rubik. "A sustainable mobility
system has to be environmentally sound, but at the same time it should offer
adequate and fair transport supplies. Ideally, this picture shall reveal common
as well as diverging views and also help identify future challenges for
knowledge brokerage in this field."
The European consortium "CORPUS - Enhancing the connectivity between research
and policy-making in sustainable consumption" is funded within the EU Seventh
Framework programme. It aims to experiment with and develop new integrative
modalities of knowledge brokerage on sustainable consumption policies. In
addition to sustainable mobility the consortium addresses the domains of
sustainable food and sustainable housing.
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Further information on the CORPUS workshop Sustainable Mobility:
www.scp-knowledge.eu/event/corpus-workshop-sustainable-mobility-i<http://www.scp-knowledge.eu/event/corpus-workshop-sustainable-mobility-i>
Contact
Dr. Gerd Scholl
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW)
Potsdamer Str. 105, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Phone +49 (30) 884594-20
gerd.scholl@xxxxxxx<mailto:gerd.scholl@xxxxxxx>
The consortium comprises eleven partners from eight European countries. The
participants of CORPUS are:
Organisation
Country
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW)
DE
Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
AT
Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
DK
Copenhagen Resource Institute (CRI)
DK
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Institute for European Studies (IES)
BE
Planète Publique
FR
Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)
HU
Strategic Design Scenarios (SDS)
BE
National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO)
NO
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Research Institute for Managing
Sustainability (RIMAS)
AT
Finnish Ministry of the Environment
FI
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