What was the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on your institution or company? The immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the various policy measures taken were that we had to reorganise the way we work. This was however less challenging for us than for many of our clients and cooperation partners. As we work …
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2020 may be behind us, but the pandemic continues to turn our lives upside down. In previous posts we have asked our PhD colleagues to tell us about how the pandemic has impacted their research. While trying to write a thesis in times of pandemic is a great challenge, PhDs are not the only ones …
by Bozhidar Ivanov, early stage researcher at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern My winter semester in TU Kaiserslautern ended with extreme exhaustion and a lingering feeling of insecurity due to the first cases of Covid-19 in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany); therefore, I was really looking forward to moving to Amsterdam for my secondment. I had prepared a …
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The case of “El Bosque del Diente” in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara by Simone Di Pietro, ESR at the University of Guadalajara RE-CITY project, and Osvaldo González Cisneros, PhD student at University of Guadalajara This post presents field work carried out with participant observation methodology, as part of the research project “Urban green spaces …
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by Bozhidar Ivanov, ESR at TU Kaiserslautern September 2019 started with a really beneficial and inspiring event for me: I took part in the 6th Trifels Summer School, organized by the University of Koblenz-Landau. Twenty PhD candidates from different disciplines and universities in Germany and Switzerland gathered in the beautiful small town of Annweiler am Trifels for …
RE-CITY: Reviving Shrinking Cities