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Sofortprogramm Perspektive Innenstadt: individual project “My bike in Osterholz-Scharmbeck”
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 (Recovery...
Workshop shows ways to activate rural areas
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...
Model project “Live (and revive) the inner city!”: Final spurt in the small town academy pilot phase
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 (be)leben!". The...
DIN draft for alternative installation technology published
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...
Robots lay fiber optics in the sewer
An employee prepares the robot for use. Between 100 and 250 meters of fibre optic cable can be laid in this way per day. (Source: Fast Opti-com) Laying fiber optic cables in sewage pipes using robots is one of the alternative installation methods. These offer many...
Study shows: Broadband funding is actively used
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 broadband...
Gigabit land register published – all data in one place
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...
Final meeting of the “Futures by Design” project partnership in Den Bosch
On December 12, 2022, the partners in the Interreg NorthSea Region project Futures by Design came together for the last time in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) to review the project's successes over the past four years and to coordinate the...
aconium turns 15 – reason to celebrate
December 13, 2022: On this date 15 years ago, aconium was founded by our Managing Director Tim Brauckmüller. Since then, we have grown beyond ourselves, gained reliable partners and launched many successful projects with them, including projects to promote municipal...
Federal Minister of Transport, Dr. Volker Wissing, presents monitoring measures for digital strategy
With the adoption of the digital strategy on 31 August 2022, the German government set itself the goal of making Germany one of the top ten countries in Europe in the field of digitalization by 2025. The digital strategy therefore comprises 18 lighthouse projects and...
Reducing the digital divide in rural areas – expert meeting of the CORA and COM³ projects
Photo credits: Peter Gunnebro From November 22 to 24, 2022, aconium and the partners of the Interreg project for the North Sea region CORA and COM³ met in Lincoln, United Kingdom, to present project results and to exchange views on future activities.The...
Hand in hand in the Ilzer Land region – regional development and digitalization on the way to a hybrid future
The eleven participating partner municipalities around the Ilz river in the south-eastern Bavarian Forest have been awarded the contract for their application as part of the "Smart Cities Model Projects: Urban Development and Digitalization" competition....