REVIVING SHRINKING CITIES

Innovative paths and perspectives towards livability for shrinking cities in Europe – Implications for Region and City vom 10. bis 12. Oktober 2018

Program: RE-CITY KICK-OFF-MEETING

Wednesday 10 October

18:30  Joint Dinner at Restaurant Brauhaus

also: Venue of the SCiRN General Assembly

(open to all RE-CITY participants)

(Address: Forellenstrasse 6, 67659 Kaiserslautern, Website: www.das-brauhaus-kl.de)

Thursday 11 October

(Venue: Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Building 57, Room 315) Moderator: Karina Pallagst

9:00 – 9:30  Welcome & Introduction of all participants (3 minutes each)

9:30 – 9:45  Project Aim, Training, Work Packages

9:45 – 11:15  Recruitment of ESRs

Introduction by René Fleschurz

11:15 – 11:30  Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00  Set up RE-CITY boards, Administration, Consortium Agreement, Financial Management

Introduction by Karina Pallagst

13:00 – 14:00  Lunch

14:00 – 16:00  Work Packages 1-6

10-minute presentation by each WP Leader, followed by discussion

WP1: Conceptualising Shrinking Smart | ENS, Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot

WP2: Governing shrinking cities | AMU, Krzysztof Stachowiak & Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz

WP3: Greening/rightsizing shrinking cities | UPORTO, Paulo Conceição

WP4: Regrowing shrinking cities | TUDO, Thorsten Wiechmann

WP5: Research Training Programme | CARLTD, Helen Mulligan

WP6: Project Management | RPTU, Team

Official Opening of the RE-CITY ITN

Reviving shrinking cities: innovative paths and perspectives towards livability for shrinking cities in Europe – Implications for Region and City

(Venue: Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Building 57, Rotunde)

16:45 – 17:15  RE-CITY: On the way to livability for shrinking cities?!

Prof. Dr. Karina Pallagst, RE-CITY project coordinator, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau

17:15 – 18:00  Path dependencies of urban development: The case of three iron and steel industry cities in the State of Saarland/Germany

Prof. Dr. H. Peter Dörrenbächer, Chair of cultural geography, Universität der Saarlandes

18:00  Wine & hors d’oeuvres reception

Friday 12 October  | venue: building 57, room 315

Moderator: Karina Pallagst

9:00 – 12:00  WP7: Communication and dissemination | UvA & RPTU, Marco Bontje and Patricia Hammer

WP8: Ethics requirements | RPTU, Karina Pallagst

WP9: Open Research Data Pilot | RPTU, René Fleschurz

12:00 – 12:30  Time table | RPTU, Karina Pallagst

12:30 – 13:00  Lunch break (boxed lunch provided)

13:00 – 14:00  Field trip by bus to Völklingen

14:00 – 14:45  Visit of the Sea Fish Farm ‘Fresh’ (ITN partner institution)

(Address: 2, August-Clüsserath-Weg, 66333 Völklingen)

15:00 – 18:00  Visit World Heritage Site ‚Völklinger Hütte‘

(Address: Rathausstrasse 75-79, 66333 Völklingen)

19:00  Back in Kaiserslautern