25.08.2010: The World Share/Transport Forum in Taiwan

The City of Kaohsiung/Taiwan, together with an international team from the Chinese Institute of Transport (CIT) and the New Mobility Partnerships is organizing a three-day international forum to take place from 16 - 19 September 2010, in which professionals working at the leading edge of sustainable transport innovations are coming together, to examine together the concept and practice of sharing transport in the 21st century, and to discuss future applications for Share/Transport in Taiwan, China, Asia and beyond.

This event can be interesting for researchers, city administrations, operators, NGOs, students, consultants, media, large public sector employers and suppliers of products, technology and services to the sector.

Kaohsiung conference is intended to be the opening shot in a series of collaborative initiatives in support of transport sharing that are set to take place in the months and several years ahead. More information about this international event at Website
 

15.07.2010: GulfRail 2012

Following the Dubai Metro, rail projects in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have become a point of focus with multi-billion dollar investments being made by each Gulf state. A countrywide $11 billion (Dh40.4bn) railway network in the UAE with 1,500km will be rolled out over the next 7-8 years. Moreover, Abu Dhabi has revealed plans for a new rail network serving the city of Al-Ain in the emirate's Eastern Region. Dubai Metro has completed its first phase with a whopping investment of US $ 6 billion, and another mass transit network with 75 km will carry 1.8 million passengers per day by 2020.

In Kazakhstan president N. Nazarbayev revitalized the old city to become an outstanding modern agglomeration of interesting architecture and a mix of culture from East and West. All major religions have their own place of praise and demonstrate the diversity in unity.

But also on the intellectual side the capital was revitalized: in 2008 for the first time Kazakhstan started to organize the Astana Economic Forum which already in 2010 is so well established that three Nobel Prize Winners for Economics attended. For the first time also “old scientists” and “young scientists” merged at the meeting, when over 200 students of the Eurasia Youth Trail actively participated in the event. (More)
 

Inspired by a trip to Morocco in 1997 the clay-building expert Manfred Fahnert/Germany started a developing-aid-project to restore the ruins of the traditional Kasbah Caid Ali in the city of Asslim in the south of the Atlas mountain-range.

Based on experience of CERCAS, an Moroccan organization for the protection of historical monuments, 25 people interested in the idea, travelled in 1998 to Asslim to study the chances to restore Caid Ali. In 1999 students from the German universities of Weimar, Dresden and Marburg joined as a travel/study group – since 2000 students get for it a certificate as a traineeship. Step by step the exchanges were build-up to become an intercultural program to study Morocco and European techniques to build with clay and to understand and design local art. The project got “branded” by the name “Lehm” (clay) Express” ( more )
 

Russia’s first international City Marketing and Development Congress (CMDC) was organized alongside the 7th MALL exhibition in Moscow. A high ranking delegation of the Russian Federal and Regional ministries meet met international City Marketing experts being connected with the network of the European Retail Academy