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VIDEO DIARY OF THE ROUND TABLE “Sofia 2020: Urban Mobility from the Past or from the Future?” 16-18 April 2018 – Crowd-In Project

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VIDEO DIARY OF THE ROUND TABLE 

Sofia 2020: Urban Mobility from the Past or from the Future?

16-18 April 2018

16 April: PRESENTING THE GOALS AND PARTICIPANTS AND FORMULATING THE ISSUES AND TASKS OF THE ROUND TABLE

Location: GENERATOR, inside the former Vitosha Factory (47 Cherni Vrah Blvd., Sofia)

14.30: Official opening of the round table, introductions and greetings:

Petar Kanev and Marie Jégu present the goals of the round table and its participants and members of Shtastlivetsa and Place for Future – the interdisciplinary approach and the purpose of working in non-conventional heterogeneous groups.

Marie Jégu and Silke Steinberg present the I-MaP Project: goals, targets, perspective, participants, and partners.

Ivan Velkov, Martin Zaimov, and Angel Burov (Union of Urban Planners in Bulgaria) – problems in planning a sustainable urban environment and mobility in Sofia.

Radost Marinova (chair of Bike Evolution Civic Association) and Veselin Kirev (Civic Initiative for Public Railroad Transportation) – controlling authority: the purpose of public monitoring and civil participation in decision-making processes.

Martin Zaimov – the broad meaning of the notion of “design”: from the first mobility plan of Sofia through the establishment of the Bulgarian Electric Vehicles Association to the GENERATOR initiative.

17 April: THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE ROUND TABLE PRESENT THE ACTIVITIES, ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR DEALING WITH THE ISSUES OF URBAN MOBILITY

Location: Seminar Hall in the Institute of Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (4 Serdika Str., ground floor)

Marie Jégu and Petar Kanev outline the tasks for the day and the event procedures.

Dragomir Konstantinov (Zelenika Foundation) and Maria Maltseva (Sofia – Green Capital” Initiative Committee and City Group) briefly present their experience, activities and initiatives and respond to questions from the audience.

Lilia Encheva-HristovaPublic Ombudsman of the Sofia Municipality – purpose of the interaction between the Sofia Municipality and civil initiatives.

Marie Jégu and Silke Steinberg present the academic and scientific aspects of the I-MaP project, its academic partners, the interdisciplinary methodology and approach of the team, in compliance with the goal of developing sustainable complex systems through the cooperation (synergy) of humanitarian and social sciences and technological innovations.

Prof. DSc Rumyana Stoilova (Director of the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) – potential of the Study of Societies and Knowledge at BAS to contribute to the long-term goals of I-MaP.

Additional reading: http://issk-bas.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ISSK-Brochure.pdf

Assoc. Prof. Georgi Georgiev (head of the Department of Architecture at New Bulgarian University) – mobility, urban planning and sustainable development of the urban environment: how academic and educational institutions can contribute to their planning.

Angel Burov and Vasil Madzhirski (Union of Urban Planners in Bulgaria) – challenges in the implementation of the currently developed Plan for Sustainable Urban Mobility in Sofia and in general.

Brainstorm. Announcing the results of the brainstorm.

 Borislav Sandov (co-chair of Zelenite (the Greens) Political Party) – problems and perspectives of green urban policies in Bulgaria.

Brainstorm: identifying problems in Sofia. Results of the discussion – looking for common ground and consensus.

Ivan Velkov – the Sofia Municipal Council and the issues of sustainable urban mobility.

Lyubomir Georgiev (Sofproect OGP (Master Plan of Sofia Municipality) presents the activities of the organization and the challenges it faces.

Final summary – formulating a common position.

18 APRIL: FINAL SUMMARIES AND COOPERATION PLEDGES

Location: Seminar Hall in the Institute of Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (4 Serdika Str., ground floor)

Kaloyan Karamitov (Vision for Sofia) – summary of the organization’s activities followed by questions and answers.

Gergin Borisov (Spasi Sofia (Save Sofia), a Bulgarian watchdog organisation) – summary of the organization’s activities followed by questions and answers.

Final discussion and summary of the results from the round table. Final remarks, conclusions from the round table, announcing the next steps and events under the project in Bulgaria.

The round table and the workshops in Sofia are supported by:

The Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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Place for Future Educational Network

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GENERATOR

I-MaP: Intermodal Mobility Management Plan is an international, interdisciplinary, multi-stage joint project proposal, initiated by FIAP Institute for Innovative and Preventive Job Design (Germany) in cooperation with Shtastlivetsa Sofia Civic Association (Bulgaria), EDUcentrum (Czech Republic), together with associated institutions such as Laboratory Psy-DREPI (University of Burgundy, France), Réseau Recherche Innovation Transition, MSH (University of Burgundy, France), Wuppertal Institute, FH Münster University (Germany), New Bulgarian University, the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria), and sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

The first stage of the I-MaP project entitled Crowd InSustainable mobility in urban areas through Crowd Intelligence Building European R&D structural partnerships for the development of “participative innovation structures” for sustainable mobility in local areas, aims to create international interdisciplinary teams which will implement the project proposal.

Its official website is crowd-in.org. It is briefly presented in this flyer:

https://crowd-in.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/280717_CrowdIn_Flyer-ENG.pdf

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The project objectives are:

  • Setting of a sustainable consortium (academic and industry-based), preparation of several joint project proposals
  • Development of innovative technologies and scenarios of services to implement sustainable mobility behaviour in urban areas
  • Strengthening user motivation through participation and collaboration
  • Integration of heterogeneous user groups in the target regions to generate innovative solutions
  • Organisation of a sustainable structure for the transcultural exchange of knowledge
  • Exploration and network building
  • Definition of needs and collection of ideas for Sofia and Prague
  • Initiation of the cooperation in Sofia and Prague
  • Integration of partners in the field in Germany and in France
  • Organisation of innovation workshops in the two target cities: Sofia and Prague
  • Initiation of a European cooperation in the field of sustainable mobility