SMARTA workshop in Burgerbus Oberes Glantal
How to switch from users needs to smart solutions!
Bürgerbus Oberes Glantal is organizing the “Mobility in rural areas: From users’ needs to sustainable and smart solutions” workshop in collaboration with SMARTA, to be held on Tuesday, the 6th of October in the Kusel District, Germany.
The one-day workshop will bring local communities together with planners and political decision-makers. After the interventions of the SMARTA project and the KomMaaS project, good practical solutions for rural mobility will be presented: “Ring a Link” from Kilkenny, Ireland, and the Bürgerbus from the Oberes Glantal Valley, Germany.
The vision for mobility in the Kusel district towards 2035 will be introduced accompanied by a keynote lecture on the future of rural areas from Otto Rubly (District Administrator of the Kusel District), Michael Matern (RENN.west) Andrea Lorenzini/Claudio Disperati (MemEx Srl), Steffen Hess/Matthias Koch (Fraunhofer IESE), Stefan Gabi (Vectos), Declan Rice, Jackie Really (Ring a Link & Kilkenny LEADER partnership), Karl-Heinz Schoon (Burgerbus Oberes Glantal), Prof. Dr. Peter Heck from Environmental Campus Birkenfeld and Frieder Zappe (Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar VRN).
The conference will be held in English and German. The interventions will be translated synchronously into the other language.
Participation is free. However, registration is required both for participation on-site and online with Zoom (Zoom-ID: ID: 945 4152 0076): Kreisvolkshochschule Kusel, www.kvhs-kusel.de , kvhs@kv-kus.de or via www.buergerbus-og.de
The contact person is the mobility officer of the Kusel district: Karl-Heinz Schoon, info@khschoon.de
For more details about the event please check the agenda, here.