Project Description

Focus on „Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Regions“

This year’s virtual summer school, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service („Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst“), addresses primarily graduate students, doctoral candidates, post-docs, or employees with similar research interests. The key topic of the summer school is sustainable mobility in metropolitan regions. The summer school is going to be held virtually together with the Center for Sustainable Urban Development of the Columbia University (CU) in New York from August 23 to August 28, 2021.

The aim of the summer school is to develop innovative and sustainable mobility and logistics solutions for metropolitan regions in close cooperation with the participants from all over the world and the lecturers of the UDE and CU. To achieve this, different perspectives and approaches from several research fields will be taught and applied. It is considered that the created networking groups continue existing beyond the summer school.

During the six-day event, the participants shall develop innovative solutions and concepts regarding sustainable mobility in four different working fields. These include the topics

• global supply chains and transport systems: sustainable governance in innovative transportation systems,
• urban mobility and logistics: best and worst practices to transform urban mobility systems - lessons learned,
• business model innovations in transport and mobility: cross-sector experiences, multi-stakeholder cooperation in innovating the sector,
• technical solutions to transform the transportation and mobility sector towards more sustainable solutions: technology acceptance by industry and users.

Also, an accompanying virtual program is an essential part of this year’s summer school to promote the cultural exchange among the participants.