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EU Country Websites Provide Information on National Targets and Measures for Broadband Expansion
The expansion of broadband is currently one of the most important infrastructure tasks in the member states of the European Union. The European Community has set itself the goal of making the benefits of online tools and services fully available to its members. This...
Ground-breaking ceremony in the Mansfeld-Südharz district
The broadband expansion project in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz was launched on June 7, 2018. District Administrator Dr Angelika Klein, Mayor Jutta Fischer (Lutherstadt Eisleben), Sandra Beichert from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Science and Digitalization of...
City and Region as Places of Work – Insights Into National Urban Development Policy at the 6th University Day
What new demands are being placed on cities and regions as places of work in view of economic and demographic structural change, particularly in light of advancing digitalisation? These and other current research questions on urban development were discussed by...
Ground-breaking ceremony for fast Internet in commercial and industrial areas in Quedlinburg
"It's a big framework that we want to realize here" - with these words, Heike Schäffer, deputy district administrator of the Harz district, gave the starting signal for the broadband expansion of commercial and industrial areas in the region on 29.05.2018. The Groß...
No Home Without fast Internet – DV Annual Conference in Berlin
Dr. Jürgen Heyer, President of the German Association for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning (DV), called for nothing less than a "refoundation of services of general interest" at the DV annual conference in Berlin on 6 June 2018. New concepts would have to be...
Starting signal for fast Internet in the Lahn-Dill district
"We are the fast ones" - with this, Mayor Inderthal emphasized another successful step towards a competitive future. In the Lahn-Dill district of Hesse, the ground-breaking ceremony on May 25, 2018 marked the start of broadband expansion in the Niedersolms industrial...
LowTEMP at the Annual Conference of the German-Austrian Urban Network in Leipzig
Low-temperature district heating is used to implement 4th generation heating networks - this new technology is characterized by higher energy efficiency, lower flow temperatures, lower heat losses and a significantly higher proportion of renewable energy sources. The...
Start of broadband expansion in Wolfsburg
On May 23, Lord Mayor Klaus Mohrs (City of Wolfsburg), local mayor Hans-Ulrich Achilles (Almke-Neindorf), Stefan Gottesleben (aconium, sovereign project sponsor of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, BMVI) as well as representatives of the...
Successful CORA partner meeting in Lincoln, UK
From 16 to 18 May 2018 partners and stakeholders of the CORA (COnnecting Remote Areas with digital infrastructure and services) project met in Lincoln, UK, to discuss challenges and the current status of the project as well as to plan further project...
A “happy day” for Creglingen: Grid commissioning in the Main-Tauber district
On May 24, 2018, Creglingen's mayor Uwe Hehn, together with mayor Heike Naber (Niederstetten), district councillor Ute Schindler-Neidlein, district councillor Karl Haag, Sebastian Mayer from the Niederstetten town planning office and department head Jochen Müssig,...
Digital Transformation is Changing the Waste Industry – aconium at IFAT 2018
From May 14 to May 18, the environmental technology sector met at IFAT in Munich. The world's leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management, which takes place every two years, focuses on strategies and solutions for the intelligent use,...
Notes on determining the discount rate
As part of the federal funding program, the broadband projects also incur financing costs for the entire duration of the project, which are included in the projects. In order to balance out the financing costs of a project, expenditure and income are discounted. The...