structural development

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Maybe one of you has already received the invitation to the workshop: "NOT USE" or discovered it on social media?

"Land of Culture 2022 - Saxony as a Stage"

Almost a million for the district - and a little time pressure please!

Hydrogen Forum Oberlausitz: successful kick-off event with more than 60 participants!

, more than 60 stakeholders who are interested in expanding the breathing through hydrogen network Upper Lusatia met at the 1st Hydrogen Forum in Upper Lusatia.

Next stop: Lausitzcluster Mobility!  

It was an exciting day. My personally long-cherished dream since the "Growth, Structural Change and Employment" commission determined Lausitzcluster Mobility - LCM 2018

Today, ENO working student and member of the innovation team Sven Backhausen reports on the first meeting of the "Northern Lights" in the district of Görlitz

The new Lausitz Monitor has been published today. The Lausitz Monitor is an annual, representative population survey on structural change in Lusatia. The results can here as well as on the Facebook page . Process psychologist and study author Jörg Heidig summarized some of the main results for Plusmimus.com.

"Green Classroom" in Weißwasser?

The members of the youth city council in Weißwasser, , want to get involved and not just attend events or committees.

This year's company survey by the ENO on behalf of the district of Görlitz and the job center , shows that the majority of companies in the district of Görlitz feel comfortable . As a development company and business promoter, we are of course particularly pleased about this news! After all, we use a large part of our workforce for precisely this: to maintain and further develop a good economic, developable and future-oriented climate.

Can the energy sector be the sole backbone of structural change?

No! Because we are traditionally an energy region, but also much more.

At the end of April, the new "Creativity" module of the HSZG bachelor's course "Culture and Management" in the ENO's priceless lounge in the new Görlitz Inno-Lab .

A report by Heike Schleussner, mobility expert and project manager in the structural change team at ENO

 What does data have to do with the creation of mobility offers?

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The listeners of the Radio WSW have known for a long time, we report to the others here - and of course we invite everyone to be there when Uwe Garack and I are on the air live on Radio WSW next Friday, April 29th from 8 a.m and answer your questions and those of the listeners.

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Laura Horst reports on her work in the structural development team on the project around the Reichenbacher Hof.

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ENO & Grantiro have just held an innovation workshop with ten very committed participants, which we definitely want to report on at this point. Participant Tina talks about two "very intensive" days in which everyone's creativity was stimulated with great, modern techniques.

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, project manager Clara Hartung from our structural development reports on some of the projects she oversees and advises that want to advance development here in Lausitz.

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, ENO project manager Heike Schleussner reports on her exciting work, in which a lot is already being done today with the solutions of tomorrow. For example:

What will we use to build vehicles and buildings in the future?

 Our innovation workshop  

As you, as regular blog readers, know, our Structural Development is concerned with getting citizens, communities, municipalities and mayors excited about the reorganization of our district in the post-coal era.

to provide a picture of the mood in the economy

In the district of Görlitz there are over 4,600 companies that received mail from District Administrator
Bernd Lange . In the letter, the entrepreneurs were asked to take part in this year's company survey, which the ENO is conducting on behalf of the district. The entrepreneurs still have time - we look forward to receiving the answers by February 28th.

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Heike Schleussner and her colleague Lars Semrok report on their participation in the digital public dialogue to develop a city-wide mobility concept for Görlitz.

"In the structural development process, the district of Görlitz relies heavily on innovation, innovative processes, new technologies and creative experts. I therefore expressly welcome the initiative to find new areas of activity in order to secure jobs at the Görlitz site together with Alstom.

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Eight months ago I wrote here for the first time and was very curious to see how the new colleagues, the structural development team at ENO for the district of Görlitz, would get together and set themselves up to make our beautiful priceless country fit for the future after the to be able to make coal. of projects already by the  regional monitoring committee and also by the federal government.

 Hello Ivana, you came to Görlitz from far away to work with the ENO on the development of the district. What have you done before?

Hello everyone! My name is Ivana and I'm from Skopje, North Macedonia.

ENO project manager Heike Schleussner has been working in the municipal team of the structural change project group since June 14, 2021 and advises municipalities and communities.

How the ENO can support founders Saskia Brosius , project manager in the innovation team .

Today I would like to outline my point of view on possible projects in Lusatia.

Do I do it or don't I do it? 

That's the question I've been carrying around with me for a long time.

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We are happy to have a new colleague in the STARK team, who will now represent our strategic controller Kristin Freudenberg during her maternity leave. At this point we would like to introduce Tina Friebe!

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We here in the ENO have a municipal team and an innovation team to actively and positively shape structural change

Broadband Internet: successful! Rosenbach is now on the fast network.

Photo top right: Minister Dulig (right) hands over the notification of funding of around 13.3 million euros to Bernd Lange (left), District Administrator of the Görlitz district (Photo: Presse Landkreis Görlitz/ SachsenEnergie)

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Some founding and innovation stories from our district are so good that it's just fun to tell them and to keep our fingers crossed that this invention will soon find its way into the whole world.

 As promised, I'll be in touch again briefly to write about my impressions "after the holiday".

My return was a little different than planned. In theory, I always think of it as very simple.

 Who would have thought how quickly everything could go!?

Last Saturday, the new center for data-intensive system research, the CASUS Institute, invited to the open day. CASUS uses digital tools to research complex systems such as climate, biodiversity and exotic states of matter.

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Our Structural Change team is pleased to have a new colleague, whom I would like to introduce at this point: Wilhelmine Buscha has a master’s degree in international tourism management and has been the new project manager in our innovation team since September 1st.

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At the beginning of the week I had the pleasure of going on tour Uwe Garack . I accompanied him on a visit to the mayor of Schleife, Jörg Funda.

Sometimes there are those days when you open the newspaper and from then on you're just in a good mood. Namely when you see that something just works. For us in the ENO, especially for us in the structural development team (and certainly for many others, especially Rothenburger...), it was such a happy day recently.

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A spirit of optimism can be felt! On the one hand, we have a new project and innovation manager , an experienced innovator from the large industry that is constantly researching the future , whom I will soon introduce in detail here .

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Today we introduce Kristin Freudenberg, a new strategic controller in the STARK team at ENO. Kristin has always had an affinity for mathematics and technology: after graduating from high school with an advanced course in mathematics, she became a qualified industrial engineer (mechanical engineering) and wrote her thesis at Siemens in Görlitz.

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Last weekend, Zittau really came alive again with "Summer in the City". Members of our structural development project team were there with an information stand - to introduce themselves and to get in touch with the public.

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This coming weekend (Sat. 10th and Sun. 11th July) Zittau will finally come alive again. And our Structural Change working group is right in the middle and fully involved.

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Yesterday, while the whole republic was sitting in front of the television and watching the EM match between England and Germany, the members of our Structural Change working group had their thoughts elsewhere. In the evening, the relevant news sites clicked on "reload page" every minute - after all, the first meeting of the Regional Monitoring Committee (RBA) was due.

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The structural change working group at the ENO is almost complete! In the coming week I will write about the new colleague Heike Schleussner at this point. She enriches our AG with her expertise for all conceivable and also the still unknown questions on the subject of mobility in the district - of course with regard to structural change.

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Like every Friday, I'm introducing the new employees of the Structural Change working group at the ENO. Today it is project manager Jan Marek.

Jan Marek from Liberec studied political science, public administration and sociology at Charles University in Prague and spent his year abroad before completing his master's degree at the University of Helsinki.

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Today I am happy to introduce Clara Hartung from the innovation team. The Berliner has already lived in Saarland and observed the structural change there . After studying "International Management" with a focus on regional economics at the IHI Zittau, she is now bringing her experience and knowledge as a project manager to the realignment of the Görlitz district "after coal".

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What a pleasure to be able to get to know and interview so many committed new colleagues in such a short time! Today we present Laura Horst, who, as a native of North Rhine-Westphalia by choice, has her very own view of the region and structural change. Laura comes from Meschede in Sauerland, studied landscape architecture in Dresden and landscape planning in Vienna and made Saxony her adopted home.    

A Mecklenburg heart beats for Lusatia - and now also in the ENO 

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Today I would like to introduce Nino Gehler from our new municipal team.  

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Today we continue with the presentation of the new colleagues from the structural change working group at the ENO.

I spoke to Saskia Brosius from the innovation team about her career to date, her experiences with the Brandenburg workshop process for the Lausitz economic region and her ideas and motivation for working in the Görlitz district.

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As promised, I'll start today with the presentation of our municipal team - with project manager Uwe Garack. He will be in the Structural Change working group (together with others) as a contact for mayors, municipalities and initiatives that are thinking about life in the villages through "active village cores", for example. to make the localities in the LK GR fit for the future... Uwe has experienced first-hand that "structural change" does not have to be negative, and that "changes" and "challenges" do not just have to gloss over "new problems".  

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There was really something going on in our ENO last week. While the lockdown was still in effect outside, the new colleagues who will form the structural change working group arrived here. At first we got to know each other in a completely new way: in front of open windows, masked, equipped with an extra sweater, the large group slowly got closer, partly on site, partly in video conferences on large screens.

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A lot has happened here in the ENO on Elisabethplatz in the past few days: suddenly our IT expert was hardly to be seen behind all the new monitors, computers and telephones, all still packed in large boxes - then he was just whirling around , in order to set up ten new jobs in time for the beginning of May. Everything is now prepared so that the gigantic task of structural change can get off to a STRONG start.  

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My name is Jasna Zajcek (that comes from Czech, but I'm from West Berlin) and I'm new to the ENO to understand structural change...in all its facets first of all. And then to present it to the public in such a way that every inhabitant in the district of Görlitz gets the desire to actively help shape the "structural change" opportunity of the century.   

Politically defined timeline 

Structural change - a term that is increasingly difficult to define for me. Does it bring negative effects, is it an opportunity? Probably both. Anyone who knows me knows that I tend to look ahead. Despite all the heated debates and wild gestures, that's still useless. Just get excited I mean. Politicians have made decisions on the subject of "lignite-fired power generation".

Vacancies in Lusatia: crisis and opportunity

A guest contribution by Jan Hufenbach

While there is a shortage of living space in the metropolises, in Lusatia we are dealing with the opposite: vacancies. It's a tiresome topic: vacancies in the country, vacancies in the cities, including ruins, half-abandoned, half-occupied houses or apartments and now and then sad speculative properties, renovated, half-renovated. Everything is there and it won't get any less.  

Suitable examples can be found in bulk on the many real estate portals and, of course: Anyone who drives through the country with open eyes, talks to mayors and property managers or just reads the daily press will quickly find what they are looking for. In Görlitz, there are two properties that are making the most unpleasant headlines because people are speculating, working with false facts and hoping for quick money: the former, renovated Hotel Monopol and the wonderful, albeit ruinous Art Nouveau building on Bismarckstraße. At the auction of the latter, the buyers put themselves in a nice conservationist light of "we will refurbish everything great" and less than 24 hours later it was up for sale again. A small speculator thriller in itself, which can be read Sächsische Zeitung The owners are also currently selling a train station in Kodersdorf (a bit expensive, one might think).

The list of vacancies could be continued. In every city, every community there are houses, farms and estates that are empty. In some cases for decades. The ownerships are diverse: communities of heirs who cannot come to an agreement or who expect too much profit, while the inheritance decays from year to year and ultimately becomes less and less valuable, heirs who hold onto the property, owners who hope for better prices, speculators see above, but also abandoned objects for which an owner cannot even be determined.  

All these vacant buildings that are not offered on the market mean a standstill for the community. They are ugly spots and sometimes a source of danger that deter potential new neighbors or entrepreneurs. This keeps slowing down sustainable urban and settlement development.

And yes, it won't get any less. The demographic development means that more and more properties are becoming vacant in rural areas. Many of them are in a sad state because perhaps only one senior lived there for many years who, for lack of finances or interest or both, has not renovated their home or at least maintained it. The potential heirs often enough live somewhere far away and have no intention of taking over the house and farm of their parents or grandparents.  

Some objects end up on the real estate market, many are offered overpriced and just as many are not sold. If you search the web, you will often be presented with problem properties, which are then accompanied by the corresponding poetry “Lots of potential! You can contribute your ideas here!”. Some of these properties are happily rotting away and when owners are untraceable or live overseas, the ugly duckling becomes a costly management problem.  

It will also be a technical problem, because administrations can rarely provide the legal expertise to deal with such issues. A whole series of factors often come together: no staff, no expertise, no money... no land in sight, because how is an (often cash-strapped) municipality supposed to finance an expert for problem real estate? Potential buyers are also not that easy to find. On the one hand, the market is large and, on the other hand, the decline in population, especially in the peripheral rural locations, cannot be cushioned solely by the often rather poorly-funded newcomers.  

In addition, many properties are offered without pointing out important details: outdoor areas, housing rights, land register entries, right of way, etc. Municipalities in particular with their direct line to the building authority could prepare sales much better here and prevent nasty surprises and further standstill and vacancies, the harms the community itself: Which average Otto buyer knows that he may not have any right to live outside and is also not allowed to build anything? When we mention these points in our consultations with potential newcomers ( Raumpioniere Oberlausitz ), we are usually very astonished.

Sellers, regardless of whether they are private individuals, brokers or administrations, sometimes limit themselves to providing only the most necessary information. The often inexperienced buyer has to take care of everything else. I recently dealt with a seller who did not want to present an energy certificate (as required by EnEV or GEG). Well so what. It's punishable.

What to do? Comprehensive vacancy management is needed. Every single vacancy in town and country must be recorded, analyzed and evaluated, including the building plots, fallow land, etc. Such vacancy management requires expertise, sovereignty and strong networking, including interdisciplinary cooperation within the offices (property management, building authority, court), in order to then For example, being able to prevent objects like the one on Bismarckstrasse in Görlitz from being auctioned off without the potential buyers – who have been known long beforehand – being put through their paces and motivated in advance. For example with a due diligence procedure analogous to company sales. The submission of a usage concept or a binding renovation concept and a bank guarantee would be further approaches to protection against speculators, in addition to a commitment period for the future owner (to prevent short-term resale). A blacklist for the black sheep among buyers (and sellers) would also be helpful.

This requires some money, but it pays off in the long run: especially when the vacancy management can also act as a project developer at the same time in order to convert vacancies into a suitable subsequent use (rezoning) and to market them. An administration is also well advised to get the citizens, entrepreneurs and associations on board, for example to develop the future use of vacancies or land use through participation formats. Rural districts, cities and municipalities will generally not be able to do this alone. This requires funding and in order to be able to make your own contribution, you also need help from the state and federal government. Then the tiresome vacancy could become a treasure that attracts people who initiate and support new developments with their ideas.

Beautiful digital world?

A guest contribution by Kai Grebasch

Digital tourism fairs, virtual job exchanges, zoom meetings instead of working lunches - it seems as if the pandemic is powerfully showing us the digitization deficits of the past. Or better yet, our own deficits in dealing with digitization, because most of these digital tools were already there before Corona. And yet we drove from Upper Lusatia across the Free State for a two-hour advisory board meeting, only to hear a presentation at this meeting and tell each other our opinions on it. Zack was gone half a day's work. Of course, this can be done in the virtual workspace with much less effort and the virtual meeting is always more efficient, cheaper and more climate-friendly. However, it becomes clear that the digital world is not the solution to all of our time and mobility problems when it comes to getting to know business partners or network contacts. A day at the trade fair at the virtual stand or "showroom", as it is often called, can be a very long-winded affair, because in the digital trade fair hall there is no need to stroll around, you simply cannot "just take a look". And if a curious guest dares to enter the showroom, he or she often has the embarrassing feeling of bursting into a private pub conversation when entering the digital space. Conversations peter out, everyone looks intently to see who is coming, and if in doubt, the visitor who has somehow been caught prefers to flee before her own camera image is built up. It feels a little like we're all navigating the local customs and conversational rituals of a foreign country on the other side of the world. Somehow you'd like to do everything right and you're so strangely tense that you just don't want to get in the mood. After a year of video conferences, some people still haven't understood what "Now please everyone who doesn't speak the microphones out" means and now entire trade fair landscapes are being built in the cloud. Creepy..... Many are already thinking with fear "if this is supposed to be the future, then I'd rather be old-fashioned again". So get through the pandemic quickly and then stomp all the virtual stuff back in? I think that would be the completely wrong way. The days of fax machines are over and that's a good thing. It is much better for us today to face the current extreme situation openly, to participate, to try everything, to observe very closely what brings us forward and what slows us down. And then when we return to a normal world with real social contacts with trade fairs and job exchanges and working lunches, we should link the positive experiences from this digital-only time with the well-known world. Do we really have to meet, or is a quick meeting in virtual space also possible? Can't I also hear the great specialist lecture on Tuesday evening in Düsseldorf without going there? Especially for us here away from the big centers, the digital world opens up completely new possibilities. Hopefully we will all ask ourselves in the future: Can we increase the reach of high-quality content with our digital possibilities? Hybrid events will be the future, I am convinced of that. And digital alone will not work in the long run, I am now also convinced of that.

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We'll do it. Lusatia in transition - a new book from Ch. Links Verlag

By Ariel Kohlschmidt

Transformation can be wanted from above, but it is always carried out on site and by individual people. This is also the case in Lusatia, where another far-reaching change is imminent with the phase-out of coal by 2038. Sacks of money are useless if you don't meet people who can think about and implement the transformation. "The great transformation begins with small things." This is how Dr. Johannes Staemmler very vividly.