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Retrospective
InNoWest TransferTalk with Prof Dr Peter Dehne: The university as a regional player: Learning together and achieving goals together
On 18/06/2025, Prof Peter Dehne from the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences was a guest at InNoWest's TransferTalk. He gave an overview of model projects in rural areas that he has supported over the years. One focus was the Small Town Academy, whose Small Town Congress will take place in Wittenberge on the 25th and 26th of June, 2025, and the question of the role of universities in rural areas.
Prof Dr Peter Dehne gave an impulse on the role of universities for regional development, knowledge transfer, learning processes and the possibilities of co-producing added value for society together with partners in the region. Prof. Dr. Dehne placed a special focus on the Small Town Academy, which is organising a congress in Wittenberge on the 25th/26th of June, 2025. The organisation and event have been running for around 10 years and, according to Peter Dehne, filled a gap in research, namely the specific consideration of peripheral areas and small towns.
In this respect, this networking and learning platform "Kleinstadtakademie" with the help of universities formed a hub where different knowledge flows together and successful projects between the municipalities and with science are to be exchanged. Other examples of his work include "Küss dein Dorf wach" (Kiss your village awake) and the organisation of a citizens' bus across municipal boundaries. The participants in the TransferTalk benefited from a good mix of concepts and the wealth of experience from Prof Dr Dehne's many years of project work.
- Information on Prof Dr Peter Dehne
- Click here for the Kleinstadtakademie and the Kleinstadtkongress
The TransferTalk series will continue on thr 9th of July at 1.00 pm with the City Lab Berlin. The focus will be on the potential of digitalisation for urban development geared towards the common good and which formats and innovative elements of participation are used there. The CityLAB is run by the Technologiestiftung Berlin and funded by the Senate Chancellery, Berlin.
