Start of the event:
14:00 Berlin, 21:00 Peking, 15:00 Amman, 16:00 Nairobi, 17:00 Tbilisi, 10:00 Brasília, 8:00 Bogotá
Languages of the event: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Cities in Crisis - Challenges and Future of Cities in view of the Pandemic
In the frame of the Connective Cities virtual week, our opening session Cities in Crisis – Challenges and Future of Cities in view of the Pandemic will take place on Monday, November 23th. We cordially invite you to join this session.
Cities worldwide are severely affected by the impact of COVID-19. Our opening session will provide an overview of the challenge’s cities are facing during the pandemic and how possible consequences of the crisis can be dealt with in the future. Further, it will be discussed whether and to what extent urban development will change in new directions in the view of the pandemic.
We are looking forward to your participation!
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Time (CET) |
Agenda |
Speaker |
13:30 |
Opening of the room |
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14:00 |
Opening of the session |
Ricarda Meissner, Connective Cities & Daniela Marzavan, Innovation Consultant |
14:15 |
Presentation of the agenda for the day |
Daniela Marzavan |
14:30 |
Welcome Address |
Felix Reifschneider, Deputy Head of Unity, Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Sabine Drees, Senior Advisor International Affairs, Association of German Cities (Deutscher Städtetag) Ricarda Meissner, Project director Connective Cities, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) |
15:00 |
Introduction of the panel speakers |
Daniela Marzavan |
15:10 |
Panel Discussion: Cities in Crisis – Challenges and Future of Cities in view of the Pandemic |
Mauricio Aguirre Lozano, Secretary of Government of Naucalpan de Juárez, México Francisco Carvalho, Mayor of Praia, Republic of Cabo Verde Dominic Fritz, Mayor of Timiosara, Romania Irakli Karkashadze, Vice-Mayor of Kutaisi, Georgia Naina Andriantsitohaina, Mayor of Antananarivo, Madagascar Paulo Mendes, Councilor at Ponta Delgada, Portugal Andryi Moskalenko, Deputy Mayor of Lviv, Ukraine |
15:50 |
Summary and Q&A |
Plenary |
16:05 |
Presenting Agenda Virtual Weeks |
Daniela Marzavan How to navigate through the Virtual Weeks - Building a Community of Practice |
16:25 |
Closing & Goodbye |
Ricarda Meissner & Daniela Marzavan |
16:30 |
End of Opening Session |
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