Stadt und Land – Digital für Alle

April 22, 2024

Exploring historical photographs of Dresden in 4D: TU Dresden's online research tool in an exhibition for the first time

Since April 16, visitors have been able to take a journey through time through Dresden at the COSMO Science Forum in Dresden. There, the online research tool 4D Browser, developed at the Center for Open Digital Innovation and Participation (CODIP) at the Technical University of Dresden, will be presented to the public for the first time via a touch screen. Until now, the tool, which has been jointly developed at the TU Dresden and the University of Würzburg since 2016, was only available in a...

Digital research tools/City and country

September 5, 2023

Agriculture in transition: OLGA combines agroforestry and digital innovations

When the trees stray into the field... Time has not stood still for agriculture either. The BMBF project OLGA is about ecological land use in Dresden and the surrounding area. There, new and old solutions go hand in hand to adapt to the challenges of our time. An important approach that is being investigated in the project is so-called...

Digital research tools/City and country

July 18, 2023

ZukunfTAlter – An alliance for participation and quality of life in rural areas

The WIR alliance "ZukunfTAlter - Future technologies for successful aging in rural areas" of the BMBF project in the area of "Innovation and structural change" is convinced that social and technological innovations can strengthen the attractiveness of Upper Lusatia and support the individual participation of local people. In order to achieve this, the alliance aims to establish Upper Lusatia as a model region for the areas of housing, living environment...

City and country

12 May 2021

OLGA: Promotion and evaluation of participation and citizen science projects

Regional sustainable development aims to reduce the economic and social distance between rural and urban areas, based on the political goal of equal living conditions in all areas of Germany. The OLGA project is therefore trying to interlink the Dresden project region more intensively, strengthen regional economic cycles, optimize ecosystem functions and promote mutual understanding within the population. OLGA stands for "optimization...

Digital education/Digital research tools/City and country/Uncategorized

March 9, 2021

The WIR alliance “ZukunfTAlter” is committed to making Upper Lusatia a place worth living in!

Upper Lusatia will face many challenges in the future. These include demographic changes, the departure of the younger population to urban centers, the phase-out of coal and the associated problems with regard to employment and income. Nevertheless, Upper Lusatia as a region is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity and diversity. Not least declared a "land of many opportunities", Upper Lusatia offers potential and breeding ground for innovations. The...

City and country

November 8, 2020

Digitalisation in the changing state-country interrelations

Town and country are often seen as opposites. City life is generally associated with ideas of social density, economic dynamism and social innovation. While rural areas on the one hand evoke romantic ideas of peace, slowing down and traditionality, on the other hand they are often perceived as structurally weak, outdated and backward. In reality, the living environments of people in town and country are intertwined and...

Generally/City and country

September 17, 2020

Does urban nature make us healthy and happy? – A short report from the STUPS project: Urban nature supports psychological well-being

The anchoring effect using the example of Dresden's urban nature If you want to observe a psychological phenomenon in real life, we recommend a small experiment on the anchoring effect. All you have to do is ask a small group of people a question: How many allotment garden associations are there in Dresden? One person from the group makes the first estimate (e.g. 35 associations) and...