Lecture of Professor Klaus R. Kunzmann (Visiting Professor at the Wrocław University of Technology) at the closing ceremony of DoFA (Lower Silesia Festival of Architecture) on 09/10/2015.
Strategy Document
Tourism is a fundamental economic sector both at European and international level. Agenda 21,
elaborated during the Environment and Development Conference held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and adopted by 173 countries, recognises the importance of this theme at global level and
outlines an action plan linking tourism to sustainable development.
Strategy Document
Tourism is a fundamental economic sector both at European and international level. Agenda 21,
elaborated during the Environment and Development Conference held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and adopted by 173 countries, recognises the importance of this theme at global level and
outlines an action plan linking tourism to sustainable development.
“REINVENTING EUROPE THROUGH LOCAL INITIATIVE”: THE BOOK
(6 October 2014) - AEIDL has published a compilation of the findings and initiatives presented at the “Reinventing Europe through Local Initiative” conference held in Brussels on 19-20 February 2014 on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
The 88-page illustrated publication presents the main findings and perspectives arising from the conference, as well as the presentations of each of the 25 “promising initiatives” selected by AEIDL to feature at the event.
Available in English and French, in print and electronic versions, the publication is a springboard of ideas to continue and deepen discussions initiated in February.
The printed version can be ordered from AEIDL.
El enfoque de trabajo en red de los actores locales para el desarrollo de los...Congreso Turismo Rural
Ponencia a cargo de D. Max A.E. Rossberg sobre "El enfoque de trabajo en red de los actores locales para el desarrollo de los destinos de ecoturismo" en el 5.º Congreso Internacional de Turismo Rural de Navarra :: http://www.congresoturismorural.es
Dr. Damien Helly
Deputy Head of Programme, EU External Action, ECDPM
Madariaga Foundation (with Clingendael)
Around Ingrid d’Hooghe’s book launch on Chinese public diplomacy
Brussels, 13 January 2015
Prezentacja Agaty Twardoch na konferencji Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich "Mieszkać w mieście. Problemy i wyzwania dla kształtowania współczesnej polityki mieszkaniowej". Gdynia 23-24.06.2016.
Prezentacja Jacka Pluty na konferencji Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich "Mieszkać w mieście. Problemy i wyzwania dla kształtowania współczesnej polityki mieszkaniowej". Gdynia 23-24.06.2016.
“REINVENTING EUROPE THROUGH LOCAL INITIATIVE”: THE BOOK
(6 October 2014) - AEIDL has published a compilation of the findings and initiatives presented at the “Reinventing Europe through Local Initiative” conference held in Brussels on 19-20 February 2014 on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
The 88-page illustrated publication presents the main findings and perspectives arising from the conference, as well as the presentations of each of the 25 “promising initiatives” selected by AEIDL to feature at the event.
Available in English and French, in print and electronic versions, the publication is a springboard of ideas to continue and deepen discussions initiated in February.
The printed version can be ordered from AEIDL.
El enfoque de trabajo en red de los actores locales para el desarrollo de los...Congreso Turismo Rural
Ponencia a cargo de D. Max A.E. Rossberg sobre "El enfoque de trabajo en red de los actores locales para el desarrollo de los destinos de ecoturismo" en el 5.º Congreso Internacional de Turismo Rural de Navarra :: http://www.congresoturismorural.es
Dr. Damien Helly
Deputy Head of Programme, EU External Action, ECDPM
Madariaga Foundation (with Clingendael)
Around Ingrid d’Hooghe’s book launch on Chinese public diplomacy
Brussels, 13 January 2015
Prezentacja Agaty Twardoch na konferencji Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich "Mieszkać w mieście. Problemy i wyzwania dla kształtowania współczesnej polityki mieszkaniowej". Gdynia 23-24.06.2016.
Prezentacja Jacka Pluty na konferencji Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich "Mieszkać w mieście. Problemy i wyzwania dla kształtowania współczesnej polityki mieszkaniowej". Gdynia 23-24.06.2016.
Urban Housing in Contemporary City Development PoliciesIzabela-Mironowicz
Prezentacja Rica Stephensa na konferencji Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich "Mieszkać w mieście. Problemy i wyzwania dla kształtowania współczesnej polityki mieszkaniowej". Gdynia 23-24.06.2016.
Presentation of Ric Stephens at the conference of the Society of Polish Town Planners "Living In the City. Problems and Challenges of Housing Policy" Gdynia, 23-24.06.2016.
Housing as part of the global discourse on urban developmentIzabela-Mironowicz
Prezentacja Shipry Narang Suri na konferencji Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich "Mieszkać w mieście. Problemy i wyzwania dla kształtowania współczesnej polityki mieszkaniowej". Gdynia 23-24.06.2016.
Presentation of Shipra Narang Suri at the conference of the Society of Polish Town Planners "Living In the City. Problems and Challenges of Housing Policy" Gdynia, 23-24.06.2016.
Problemy i wyzwania dla kształtowania współczesnej polityki mieszkaniowejIzabela-Mironowicz
Prezentacja Piotra Dominiaka na konferencji Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich "Mieszkać w mieście. Problemy i wyzwania dla kształtowania współczesnej polityki mieszkaniowej". Gdynia 23-24.06.2016.
Prezentacja Zbigniewa Maćkowa na konferencji Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich "Mieszkać w mieście. Problemy i wyzwania dla kształtowania współczesnej polityki mieszkaniowej". Gdynia 23-24.06.2016.
Lecture of Professor Klaus R. Kunzmann (Visiting Professor at the Wrocław University of Technology) 07/10/2015 at the DoFA (Lower Silesia Festival of Architecture)
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Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
The increased availability of biomedical data, particularly in the public domain, offers the opportunity to better understand human health and to develop effective therapeutics for a wide range of unmet medical needs. However, data scientists remain stymied by the fact that data remain hard to find and to productively reuse because data and their metadata i) are wholly inaccessible, ii) are in non-standard or incompatible representations, iii) do not conform to community standards, and iv) have unclear or highly restricted terms and conditions that preclude legitimate reuse. These limitations require a rethink on data can be made machine and AI-ready - the key motivation behind the FAIR Guiding Principles. Concurrently, while recent efforts have explored the use of deep learning to fuse disparate data into predictive models for a wide range of biomedical applications, these models often fail even when the correct answer is already known, and fail to explain individual predictions in terms that data scientists can appreciate. These limitations suggest that new methods to produce practical artificial intelligence are still needed.
In this talk, I will discuss our work in (1) building an integrative knowledge infrastructure to prepare FAIR and "AI-ready" data and services along with (2) neurosymbolic AI methods to improve the quality of predictions and to generate plausible explanations. Attention is given to standards, platforms, and methods to wrangle knowledge into simple, but effective semantic and latent representations, and to make these available into standards-compliant and discoverable interfaces that can be used in model building, validation, and explanation. Our work, and those of others in the field, creates a baseline for building trustworthy and easy to deploy AI models in biomedicine.
Bio
Dr. Michel Dumontier is the Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and executive director of the Institute of Data Science, and co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles. His research explores socio-technological approaches for responsible discovery science, which includes collaborative multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI methods for drug discovery and personalized medicine. His work is supported through the Dutch National Research Agenda, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Horizon Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, the US National Institutes of Health, and a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies including ontologies and linked data.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
Richard's entangled aventures in wonderlandRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
1. Klaus R. Kunzmann Potsdam, Professor em. TU Dortmund/Germany
Sailing ahead
Which Future for European Space?
Closing lecture of Lower Silesia Festival of Architecture 2015 “City Flows”.
Wroclaw, Museum of Architecture, 9. October 2015
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Outline
• Europe 2015
• Challenges of European territorial development
• Pathways into the future of European space
• Scenarios, visions and narratives for Europe
• A final comment
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Europe 2015
Europe is in a crisis
• Return of nationalism and militant regionalism and eroding solidarity
• Increasing hegemonial dominance of the Anglo-American world of finances
• Dependency on US based global information and communication power
• Economic divide between global and local economies, between North and
South and East and Wes in Europe
• Growing economic competition from China and other BRICSs
• Demographic change >aging and clash of values between generations
• Migration flows from Africa and the Middle East
• Limited absorptive capacity and ailing competence of local, regional and
national governments to cope with EU regulation and information overload
. . . .and as a rule these changes cannot be tackled at the local or regional level of
planning and decision-making
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2. .
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Challenges of European territorial development
• Climate change
• Continuous concentration of jobs and
population in metropolitan city regions
• Economic, social and spatial polarisatio
at European, national, regional and urban tiers
• Marginalisation of peripheral regions >maintaining public services
• Structural change in old industrial regions
• Preserving the cultural heritage
• Maintaining the balanced urban system
• Constraining the use of land to conserve resources
• Protecting fragile border environments >East, Southeast and South
• Industrialization of agriculture and decline of small scale farming
. . . . . .and all this in a climate of eroding European solidarity . . . .
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Traditional Pathways into the Future of
European Space
Where to go?
• Global Cities
• Metroregions
• Macro Region Development
• Border regions
• Cohesion Policy: A New ESDP?
• TransEuropean Corridors >TENs
• ESPON: Europe 2050
. .. though all this may not lead to a new Europe!
3. No Bananas or Shoes!
Europe is a Bunch of Grapes
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Global Cities
Paris and London, the only global cities (almost city states) in Europe
> Istanbul
• Concentration of financial, economic, political power in Europe.
• Most EU policies support directly or indirectly the development of the
two global cities to secure Europe’s competiveness in the world
• Both cities compete for tourists, inward investment and the creative
class and cultural hegemony in Europe
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4. The Future of European Space
Towards a Europe of Metro Regions
Depending on local politics, leadership, corporate power, the civil society
and the creativity of grassroots movements cities promote development in
metropolitan regions following trendy urban development paradigms,
such as
• Smart and intelligent
• Sustainable or Eco or green
• Creative
• Knowledge
• Inclusive
• Cosmopolitan and liveable
• Compact
• Resilient or healthy > and many more
In fierce competition with other city regions in Europe and beyond,
striving to link to trans-european transport networks and expand their
territories to a dependant suburban and rural hinterland
. . continuously struggling between top-down and bottom-up decision-making
environments to balance social, economic, cultural and ecological objectives
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Developing Border Regions
Cross-border policies and programmes of the EU aim to
• Maintain peace on European
borders
• Overcome national boundaries
and national ideologies
• Encourage interregional
cooperation
• Support usually much neglected
regions in the periphery of
nation-states
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Macro Region Development
• Promote the idea of an United Europe
• Overcome national boundaries and national ideologies
• Experiment cross-national regional development, encourage interregional
cooperation and converge national approaches to regional development
• Experimnt in
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EU Cohesion Policy
Cohesion policy is a spatial policy,
aiming to promote regional
development across Europe
and influence sector policies to
be aware of their (unintended?)
territorial impacts > Budget: 2014-2020 >325 Mrd. €
What can EU cohesion policy achieve?
• Bring hope, encourage local governments
• Show action
• Promote the European Idea
• Distribute and redistribute financial resources
• Transfer knowledge
• Strengthen competences in regions
• Set standards
• Show pathways into the future
Quelle: DG Regio MEMO/13/1011 19/11/2013
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TENs
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Developing the Trans-European Transport
Network is one of the EU responses to the
challenges mentioned above.
The aims are:
• Strengthening global competitiveness of
Europe as a whole
• Accelerating European cohesion
• Linking Eastern Europe better to the West
• Shortening travelling and transportation times
across Europe
• Linking city regions in the periphery to the core
of Europe
• Bypassing Germany, when transporting goods
from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia
• Creating the territory of single internal market,
• In the end the TEN aims to deepen the
European Union
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ESPON: Europe 2050
A scenario developed in the framework of ESPON research
Europe: open and polycentric
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7. .
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More Pathways into the Future of European
Space
….the above visions for Europe may not
address all problems of the continent….
What about other pathways?
• Europe: Cultural Theme Park of the World
• Europe: A Pastoral Continent
• Europe: School of the World
• Europe: A Smart Continent
• Europe: Silicon Archipelago
• Europe: China’s Special Economic Zone
• Europe: Backwater of the North African Industrial Belt
Europe: Theme Park of the World
. . . the old Europe scenario
Klaus R. Kunzmann
• The urban and cultural heritage of Europe’s cities and regions is
seen as the key territorial potential for urban and regional economic
development;
• Conservation of the urban and heritage is a key concern of city
development, Local and regional economies are linked to culture and
heritage;
• Humanities, cultural sciences, the preservation of the heritage and
tourism receive high priority in higher education and research;
• From Venice to Tuscany, from Skane to Brandenburg, from Scotland
to Sardinia, from Aix-en-Provence to the Massive Central, from
Salamanca to Canary Islands, Europe becomes a second and third
home continent for the affluent middle and upper class of Asia and
Russia,.
• Silence, learning and nature observation are the key assets of
European holiday regions;
• Mobility concepts are oriented to tourist target and second home
owners;
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8. .
TENs and the Future of European Space
A European Territorial Development Strategy
Can it make an impact?
Given the importance of EU corridors and the related transport infrastructure for
territorial cohesion at a transnational level, a common regulative
framework should be implemented in order to provide a homogenous
background against which to operate. The concept of an integrated
European territorial development strategy would enable local and
regional decision-makers to refer to the European dimension during
national discussions and to have a clear, communicable perspective
on their level of intervention. (Recommendation VII of the paper)
Better not!
1. There is no willingness at EU level (and at most national tiers) to produce a
follow-up project to the ESDP, which had not much political impact in the
member countries of the EU
2. An integrated European territorial development strategy would not address the
challenges of the TENs and hardly solve the impacts
3. A common regulative framework (law) would centralize even more power in
Brussels and be against the interests of the regions and the people
4. National governments should rather be given advice and guidelines how to
better cooperate with regions, affected by sector policies
Slow Europe: A Pastoral Continent
Klaus R. Kunzmann
• Ecological objectives, low carbon principles and resource
conservation determine regional policies;
• Agriculture in all forms regains economic importance.
Quality food is exported to all over the world .
Europe becomes the food basket of the Middle
East, North Africa and China;
• Forests and nature parks are extended across Europe:
• Traditional medicine and the cultivation of medical herbes
conquer the continent;
• Integrated policies promote rural-urban economies and
intra-regional economic circuits;
• Principles of agro-tourismo prevail in tourism policies;
• Endogenous development and slow city concepts conquers
strategic urban and regional policies;
• Individual mobility and interregional flows of goods gradually
decline:
. . . a desperate scenario?
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9. Europe: School of the World
. . . the mainstream scenario
Klaus R. Kunzmann
• Knowledge has been identified as the new
resource and
survival strategy of Europe in the Asian century;
• National governments double the expenses for
higher education and research;
• By profiling their local knowledge-scapes and
creating urban environments for learning and living,
sports and entertainment, European cities promote
the evolution of a complex system of knowledge
industries;
• European universities market their institutions as
centers of advanced higher education and
innovative training. They aim to become favorite
targets of students and researchers from all over
the world;
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Europe: A Smart Continent
The corporate Europe
Klaus R. Kunzmann
• Many cities promote smart-city concepts, promoted
by Siemens, IMB , Cisco and others:
• Better Mobility management, energy reduction and
public transport information contribute to achieve
the compact green city
• Smart technologies enable rural regions to survive,
enabling people in low density regions to have
convenient access to public services, such as
welfare, health, education and public transport;
• Smart logistics optimize freight transport and
accommodate growing use of e-shopping;
• City centers are gradually transforming into
consumption fairs and museums for e-shoppers;
• City tourists are guided (and seduced) by new
information technologies
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10. Europe: The Silicon Archipelago
Europe is lagging behind the US and China, when it comes to
innovative entrepreneurship
The Greek archipelago would be a perfect location for the
innovative European creative class
Supported by a huge Marshall plan of the EU, programmes are
developed to attract young entrepreneurs from around the
world to to start up ITC businesses on the islands
A new university of the archipelago will be the hub of innovative
global work and life balances
Within two decades the archipelago of Greece will become the
most advanced Region of Europe, It competes successfully
with California and Chinese HighTech regions
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Europe: China’s special economic zone
. . . not an unlikely scenario!
Klaus R. Kunzmann
• Special (free) zones for Chinese investment are developed in
areas, with high unemployment and easy access to
China, > Hamburg, Naples, Parchim
• Chinese low cost production zones in in Europe and North
Africa Prato, Naples, Sicily; Romania, or Egypt
• Growing Chinese investment in high tech enterprises
> Mechanical engineering, environmental technology,
• Chinese/European automobiles are assembled in Europe’s
car factories >Volvo, Opel, Fiat, Peugeot
• Development of Chinese technology and science parks in
partnership with European cities and universities
• China has a considerable stake in European agriculture and
food industries
• Next generation high-speed trains in Europe are built by
Chinese corporations
• Chinese architects are invited to design flagship projects
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11. Europe
Backwater of the North African Industrial Belt
. . the unlikely Arab spring scenario
Klaus R. Kunzmann
• The Arab spring has triggered-off a rethinking
of European development and migration policies;
• In cooperation with China a Mediterranean Marshall plan will be initiated by
Turkey, Israel and Spain to develop North Africa as a European-African
integration zone top provide jobs, education and training for young
Arabs and Africans;
• Following the model of China, free economic zones are established in the region,
with good accessibility to port facilities;
• Modern Infrastructure is built , technical universities ,
schools and technology parks will be established to
meet the requirements of the Sub Sahara Africa;
• Energy produced in the Sahara is used for building
up industries and technology parks dedicated to
the development of solar energy and the provision
of drinking water;
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Klaus R. Kunzmann
Sailing Ahead: Which Future for Europe?
Once a peace project, now a survival strategy!
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