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On September, 12th, the Hamburg team had a mission: having the quadruple helix stakeholders (citizens, public authorities, representatives from academia and industry representatives) select and endorse 5 concepts out of the 12 that came out of the Hackday. The first step was to inform the community at large about the 12 concepts and encourage voting,Read more

July, 27th at HausDrei was not a Friday like any other: our local team had taken good care of organising different activities to select valuable ideas for better mobility in Altona. The first part of the Hackday consisted in a voting exercise that was based on the ideas selected during previous Lab activities and entailedRead more

26 June 2018, Buergertreff Altona Nord, Hamburg: 19 days after a first productive Lab Night, the Hamburg team organised a second one. This time, the night took place in the Northern part of Altona instead of the so-called Gerichtsviertel. Our local team wanted to spread the discussion evenly and try to involve the whole district:Read more

Cities-4-People aims to get citizens and a broad variety of stakeholders involved: people are the centre of this project! This is why our Hamburg team is very active in participating in external events, such as the Altonale, and in organising entertaining, yet informative sessions, such as the Mobility Slam. After a series of other activities,Read more

Our Hamburg team decided to participate in this year’s edition of the Altonale in order to widen the Citizen Mobility Community, leveraging a festival that takes place in the centre of Altona, and generate publicity for the project. Ok, but… what is the Altonale? Altonale is the Northern Germany’s biggest cultural festival which is organisedRead more

Ever thought of taking part in a slam competition? Ever thought of doing so in a mobility slam? Most likely not, unless you attended our Mobility Slam session on 17 May 2018 in Hamburg Altona. Transportation can be a controversial topic and, especially on the streets, it is rarely addressed with serenity. Mobility can provokeRead more

On April, 26th Q8 – a planning agency focusing on inclusive urban development) organised a forum to discuss transportation issues in the development area of Mitte Altona. The event brought together people with a stake in mobility and mobility planning and the existing community “A centre for all” (Eine Mitte für Alle) [the name playsRead more

Germany annually organises a “Girls and Boys Day” on the fourth Thursday in April. They day is meant to provide young girls and boys with some perspectives on new career paths and let them know about professional fields that are outside of traditional disciplines. In the frame of this year’s Girls and Boys Day onRead more

On March, 28th the Cities-4-People Hamburg team participated in the Altona Climate Protection Plan with the newly set-up Citizen Mobility Lab. The Lab’s aim fit nicely in the overall goal of the Climate Protection Plan, which is developing local approaches that can reduce greenhouse gases and resource consumption in Altona. Differently from the Labs inRead more

The consultation workshop took place in the area of Hamburg-Altona on February, 10th 2018. Before then, 3 warm-up meetings had been organised between November and December 2017 to attract stakeholders and make them the core of the local Citizen Mobility Community. Those were the ones invited to the consultation workshop together with other inhabitants ofRead more