Program

On Thursday, 22. September, mobility initiative “Neue Mobilität Paderborn” (NeMo Paderborn) organised a Science Café entitled “Conversation on mobility – networking rural and urban areas” as part of Paderborn University’s 50^th anniversary celebrations. Starting at 5 p.m., interested members of the public could inform themselves about the current state of research, sit down and chat to experts and put forward their own ideas at the research and innovation campus Zukunftsmeile 2 (ZM2).

Shaping the mobility of tomorrow

Scientists from Berlin Social Science Ce

nter and Paderborn University opened the event with keynote presentations on subjects such as “Mobility and social inequality: a comparison between OWL and Germany” or “Digitalisation for climate-neutral and comfortable mobility”. Afterwards, a model landscape built by NeMo Paderborn, featuring autonomous driverless cars, showed how a mobility system in the spirit the transport and energy transformation could look in a rural environment. Participants discussed various issues: How can we get around in an environmentally friendly and comfortable way? What will new vehicles look like? What happens when there’s no wind and the sun isn’t shining? What should a mobility app be able to do?

About NeMo Paderborn

The project NeMo Paderborn links research fields that were previously viewed separately from each other. Numerous network partners have joined forces in an association, with Paderborn University as one of the founding members. The basis of the concept is lightweight vehicles that can transport people or goods to certain points on a predetermined route on demand. During the autonomous journey, the small individual vehicles couple themselves to larger drive modules and form a convoy. The vehicles will be powered by electricity or a hydrogen fuel cell.