19.01.2023
Lower Saxony is supporting cities and municipalities in dealing with the consequences of the pandemic in city centers. The Sofortprogramm Perspektive Innenstadt (“City Centre Perspective!”) comprised 120 million euros from the EU recovery aid REACT EU...
13.01.2023
How can the challenges of rural areas be overcome with the active participation of local citizens and which strategies are particularly promising? To answer these questions, the German Foundation for Engagement and Volunteering (DSEE) and the German Networking Agency...
6.01.2023
Photo: Henrik Nürnberger/ aconium GmbH New formats for dialogue between citizens and city administrations as well as the design of multifunctional meeting places in small town centers – these are two focal points of the pilot project “Innenstadt...
5.01.2023
Another major step has been taken towards faster and cheaper fibre optic expansion: the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) approved the draft of DIN standard 18220 in November. This standardizes so-called minimally invasive installation methods and provides...
2.01.2023
A study by the auditing and consulting network Ernst & Young (EY) comes to the conclusion that most broadband coordination offices want to continue to actively use funding and rely on previously used funding models.In the study “Insights into German...
16.12.2022
The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs and the Federal Network Agency have created a central register for mobile and fiber optic expansion, the gigabit land register. All important information on telecommunications infrastructures in Germany can now be...