Discussion about justice with state secretary of Saxony-Anhalt: Netzwerk Stadt-Land Sachsen-Anhalt invited to the Summer Festival Lecture

About seventy participants from all over Saxony-Anhalt accepted the invitation of the network Stadt-Land in Sachsen-Anhalt to the summer academy in the village community centre in Schleberoda (Freyburg/Unstrut) on 19 October.

apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Weith from ZALF (Working group co-design of change and innovation) was invited to give the keynote address on the topic of "Regional Justice - Results from the BMBF ReGerecht Project". After the introductory words of the former chairman of the Bundesverbandes der gemeinnützigen Landgesellschaften, Dr. Boß, and the greetings of the Saxony-Anhalt Minister of Agriculture, Sven Schulze, Professor Weith showed what added value can result from a just urban-rural balance for people and their development options. In the subsequent panel discussion with Gert Zender, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture of Saxony-Anhalt, as well as mayors and heads of local administrations, the necessity of involving different groups of actors at an early stage in land-related coordination processes between cities and the countryside, e.g. in the designation of industrial estates, became particularly clear. The event showed once again that the topics of spatial and landscape justice and urban-rural linkages are highly topical - and should be discussed again and again on a regional and local level.