Today, liberal democracies offer their citizens a level of prosperity unequalled by any other political system. Nevertheless, the way it works on a day-to-day basis is viewed with increasing scepticism. People’s lifeworlds are changing as a consequence of globalization and digitalization. The global Financial Crisis, the Panama Papers
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The energy system is becoming increasingly interconnected and digital. In addition to opportunities, this also entails risks. How can critical energy infrastructures be redesigned to create a secure and smart energy system? At the seventh Energy Trialog, experts of the academy project “Energy Systems of the Future” discussed
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On our Trialog last Friday we discussed controversially on the topic “Correctly assess and use bioenergy potentials, reduce side effects. How to design a long-term bioenergy strategy? “. You can find the press release here (in German only).
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Today the state-owned housing companies degewo, GESOBAU, Gewobag, HOWOGE, STADT UND LAND and WBM presented their guidelines for participation together with Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan, president of Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform and Katrin Lompscher, senator for urban development and housing. The motto is: transparent, reasoned, constructive and reliable. For the
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How to design participation in housing construction so that it contributes to constructive and fair processes? The final report summarizes the results from all four Trialogs of the series “participation in housing construction”. The report is available for download. Guidelines for participation of the municipal housing companies were formulated on
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Last week our shareholder Dr. Peter Heller took part in the Festival for New Economic Thinking and the INET conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. He represented the HVGP and held a workshop on our Trialog series „Deutscher Sonderweg“ on economic pluralism. We asked him for some of his impressions
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