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Tag Archives: Brandenburg
Shortage of Skilled Labour in Germany: Does it really exist? (Part 3)
Photo Credit: http://www.sausedo.net by Paul Köper, Tobias Sieblitz and Ares Kalandides Are we really heading towards a major shortage of skilled labour? Is it the demographic change as we are often told? While more and more people retire, there are … Continue reading
Shortage of Skilled Labour in Germany: Does it really exist? (Part 2)
Photo Credit: http://www.august-faller.de by Paul Köper, Tobias Sieblitz and Ares Kalandides In Part 1 of this blog series we ended by asking the question whether the debate about a shortage of skilled labour in Germany had any substance. Is the phenomenon … Continue reading
Posted in projects, Uncategorized
Tagged Brandenburg, Germany, inpolis, Schönefelder Kreuz, skilled labour
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Shortage of Skilled Labour in Germany: Does it really exist? (Part 1)
Photo Credit: courtesy of Siemens by Paul Köper, Tobias Sieblitz and Ares Kalandides The term skilled labour or rather the shortage of such seems to be omnipresent these days. While, for example, the inter-trade organization Bitkom reports that there is … Continue reading
Economic opportunities in peripheral regions: some considerations
by Paul Köper Many economically weak, peripheral regions seem stuck in a vicious circle: private investment withdraws and is followed by disinvestment in public infrastructure and services (or the other way round), causing demographic decline, which then starts the downwards … Continue reading
Posted in projects
Tagged Brandenburg, COBRA, endogenous growth, Guben, Niederlausitz, Regional Development
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COBRA: Looking for Opportunities in Weak Rural Areas
by Ares Kalandides Last year our team completed a Regional Development Plan for a part of Niederlausitz in Brandenburg, an area physically marked by open lignite mines and poor lands, by structurally low economic performance, high unemployment and an aging … Continue reading
Posted in projects
Tagged Brandenburg, COBRA, Guben, innovation, Niederlausitz, Regional Development, regional inequality
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First Workcamp: COBRA – Collaborative Labour Opportunities in Brandenburg
by Jonas Rehmet We are happy to announce that the first workcamp of a total of three separate one-week workcamps of the ESF-project “COBRA – Collaborative Labour Opportunities in Brandenburg” will take place on November 12th, 2013 in Guben, Germany. … Continue reading
Posted in conferences
Tagged Brandenburg, COBRA, creative economy, Crete, economic development, Guben, Institute of Place Management, workshop
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Regional Development Concepts and their inherent contradictions
by Ares Kalandides Every planning process has its own logic, which depends both on the culture it is embedded in and the particularities of the project. Today, I would like to reflect upon a process I have been involved in … Continue reading
Posted in opinions
Tagged Ares Kalandides, Berlin, Brandenburg, Niederlausitz, Regional Development, Regional Development Concept, REK
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Regionalization and Place Identity (Or: what is really the Niederlausitz?)
by Markus Kather Döbern. Döbern? Optionally this is a small town in (Southern) Brandenburg // near Cottbus // in the Lausitz region // between Dresden and Berlin // near Forst // south of the Spreewald // nearly in Poland // … Continue reading
Posted in opinions, research
Tagged Brandenburg, culture, European Regions, Image, Place Development, Place Identity, Regional Development
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Strengths and weaknesses of the SWOT tool for place-related analysis
by Ares Kalandides I am sure most of us have already used some kind or other of a SWOT model to analyse something. In my business it is often used as an analytical tool to understand “places”, where they stand … Continue reading
From Coal-Mining to Water-Skiing: The Niederlausitz in Brandenburg
by Valentin Schipfer There is a special aesthetic quality to old coal mines that can perhaps be best described as a “moon landscape”. Yet coal-mining areas are rarely considered the most attractive places in the world. Though many live and … Continue reading
Posted in pick of the day
Tagged Brandenburg, bte, Coal-mining, Cottbus, die raumplaner, Forst, Germany, Guben, inpolis, Lausitz, Regional Development, Vattenfall
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