Roel, Mendel, Luca, Marco, Els, Jan and Wendy (minutes)
Agenda
- Announcements
- Presentation (Wendy): Results from Interviews/Workshop NICIS KEI: Barriers for Transit Oriented Development in Netherlands
- Presentation (Els): Theoretical model over technocratic and communicative approach conflict.
Announcement
- 15 Apr Railforum Matchmaking - Stakeholders from rail transport (Rail to Tram, Public Organisation) looking for students who are interested and busy with their issues and topics. (http://www.railpedia.nl), good for networking and knowledge exchange.
- Bachelor thesis (topics: Tram 1 and Amsterdam Habour) needs supervision and to be judged in April.
- Planning voor Ruimte en Mobiliteit, min 70 students applied. Syllabus has been revolutionized according to criticism from students from the year before (literature list and assignments). Blog will be set up for students as discussion platform and dissemination point (able to leave discussion point, view multimedia bits and track participation). New form of education will be more interactive and students will be judged on new criteria as in module guidebook. Students will be guided with an existing project to make the educational process more concrete and tangible.
- Marco is promoted. He will begin in 1st April with his new research.
- Contact with Programma Spoorzone Ontwikkeling from VROM. Updates will follow.
- Jan has contact with Vereiniging Deltametropool for the tool SprintStad (serious gaming). Looking together with Paul Chorus to see if it is feasible to make deliverable products.
- Verkeer and vervoer congress in Aalborg in end August. PhD workshop in Denmark.
- COST application in Brussels (Marco & Cecilia from Portugal), to be used for networking and travel costs for research initiatives. Luca is formal chair for this application.
- Sustainable cities group in UvA (inter/intra faculty, inter discipline), Luca is leading the Mobility cluster (research and education). Similar initiative will be set up on national level, with Peter Nijkamp (NWO) leading discovery phase. Inter and trans discipline approach. Research institutes showing trend of inter/trans-discipline tendencies.
- Bereikbaarheid Randstad (3e ronde) - 2.5 year for 2 postdocs position. TU Eindhoven submitting an application together with our group.
- Restructuring of Bachelor education, chance to identify what is interesting for us. Grouping of certain courses or new educational forms.
- AMIDSt is now AISSR, with some concrete changes for the PhD students. More formal steps and products will be required. Compulsory educational courses are missing for planning subjects. Discussion needed what theory and method courses are required. NETHUR can still be pursued.
