September 28, 2018

Panel Discussion: Turnabout Mobility – The Challenge to Stay Grounded

In October 2018, the Stay Grounded Network meeting as well as the Back on Track network meeting, took place together in Vienna and started with a public panel discussion. Representatives of a British trade union, of the civil society networks Stay Grounded and Back on Track, as well as of university discussed how to organize a transition towards an ecologically sound and just transport system. What are challenges and promising approaches, especially when focusing on aviation and just transitions for workers?

  • Prof. Emeritus Hermann Knoflacher (Vienna Technical University)
  • Sam Mason and Tahir Latif (Public and Commercial Services Union, UK)
  • Laura Machler (Am Boden bleiben; Stay Grounded Network)
  • Trevor Garrod (Back on Track; former President of the European Passengers‘ Federation)

Key note: Prof. Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna)

Moderation: Mathias Krams (University of Vienna)

Friday, 12th Oktober 2018, 19.00
Hearing room III in NIG (University of Vienna), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria

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