Local and High-Tech?
The Green Party Vienna in cooperation with Grüne Bildungswerkstatt warmly invite to the first event of the Green European Foundation-project “Socioecological Reindustrialisation”: “Local & High-Tech?”
Friday, September 5 th 2014, 9.30 AM
Town Hall, Grauer Salon (Room 319)
1082 Vienna, entrance Felderstrasse, stairs N° 8, elevator 1 st floor What's it about? In the last decades, Europe has lost numerous major industries. Companies like the „Waldviertler“ shoe factory and the successful positioning of social innovative fashion labels on the one hand, run counter to problematic processes on the other hand: jobs are being outsourced, industrial production drifts to neighboring countries and other regions around the globe, whereas local knowledge
vanishes more and more.
Nevertheless we need local handicraft, commerce and industry to safeguard jobs, to avoid long transportation routes and to reduce dependencies. But how do local circular-economies, social innovation and high-tech go together? Which systematic innovations are capable of fostering cooperative, sustainable and social structures? How can the destructive dynamics of protectionism as well as competition among nations be prohibited for the good of nature and employment? Schedule (simultaneous translation German/English) 09.30 AM: Check In / Registration 10.00 AM: Opening:
Martin Margulies, City Counsellor
Pierre Jonckheer, President of the Green European Foundation Urban Design & FabLabs
Two local case studies:
Cloed Priscilla Baumgartner: Up-cycled Fashion „MILCH“
Roland Stelzer: FabLab and 3D-printing “Happylab” Keynote Speech:
“Social innovation and socio-ecological transformation“
Anna Meroni, Politecnico di Milano Discussion:
Peter Mayerhofer, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
Ruperta Lichtenecker, Speaker for Economic Policy, Austrian Greens 11.30 AM: Break 12.00 PM: Discussion in small groups with experts 1.00 PM: Lunch break & buffet 2.00 PM: Panel discussion
"Socioecological Reindustrialisation – European Perspectives":
Dirk Holemans (Oikos/Belgien)
Karl Proyer, Vice Director of the Austrian union GPA-djp
Gerhard Schumacher, business consultant Discussion:
Aurelie Marechal, Director of the Green European Foundation
Johannes Jäger, University of Applied Sciences Vienna 3.30 PM: Break 4.00 PM: Discussion in small groups with experts 5.00 PM: Closing Facilitator: Andreas Novy, Grüne Bildungswerkstatt / Vienna University of Economics and Business