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Meeting and networking. Rebuilding together.
Three Ukrainian mayors and their delegations made their way to Stuttgart for the live-streamed conference of the Bau-AUF-Ukraine forum.
In the program embedded in INTERGEO 2024, they spoke to over 500 participants together with other representatives from the Ukrainian administration, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the Agency for Economy and Development, the NGO “Agency for Recovery and Development”, the German-Ukrainian Forum and the Stuttgart Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
The central aim of the event was to exchange knowledge and build networks during the war in order to support construction projects in the municipalities of Ukraine.
The conference was opened by Andrea Lindlohr, State Secretary in the Ministry for Regional Development and Housing, State Government of Baden-Württemberg.
The entire program was recorded and can be viewed here:
The conference was organized in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Agency for Economic Development and the Stuttgart Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
It was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
It was the starting point for further cooperation and networking between municipalities and companies in Ukraine and Germany.
The program will be streamed live – in German, Ukrainian and English – and is aimed at: Decision-makers from municipalities and municipal service providers as well as interested companies and institutions in the construction value chain for technically and structurally sustainable solutions in the planning, execution and intelligent operation phases.
Here on 26.09.
be there free of charge
At the INTERGEO trade fair in Stuttgart, the speakers of the program, delegations from Ukraine and interested parties from Germany and Europe who would like to get involved in reconstruction will meet at the stand of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit and at the matching tables.
Ms. Sabine Tonscheidt, freelance moderator
Mr. Andreas von Schumann, Chairman of the Foundation Bau auf Ukraine i. G.
Dr. Josef Kauer, Initiator Forum Bau-AUF-Ukraine
Ms. Andrea Lindlohr MdL, State Secretary, Ministry for Regional Development and Housing Baden-Württemberg
Prof. Dr. Rainer Lindner (Chairman of the German-Ukrainian Forum / CEO Heine + Beisswenger Group)
Mr. Viacheslav Negoda, Head of the Ternopil Regional Military Administration
Ms. Susanne Friedrich, Head of the Agency for Economy and Development (AWE)
Mr. Taras Byk, Member of the Board, NGO “Agency for Reconstruction and Development”
Mr. Serhii Kondratiuk, Deputy Mayor of the City of Zhytomyr
Mr. Evgeniy Makhovikov, Deputy Mayor of the city of Chernivtsi
Mr. Ihor Otkydach, Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Architecture and Spatial Development of the City.
Ms. Olha Mitskevych, Business Scout for Development, Agency for Business and Development, AHK Ukraine
Mr. Thomas Kirmayr, Head of Allianz Bau and Head of Business Unit Development at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics
Mr. Andreas von Schumann, Chairman of the Bau-AUF-Ukraine Foundation i. G.
Dr. Josef Kauer, Initiator Forum Bau-AUF-Ukraine
FORUM Bau-AUF-Ukraine is part of the permanent German-Ukrainian platform for the municipal reconstruction segment.
In order to offer a meeting platform for interested entrepreneurs from the German and Ukrainian construction industry for reconstruction, it is now founding the first construction-specific binational community platform, the Bau-AUF-Ukraine Club
The focus is on an up-to-date overview of the financing instruments available to the German and Ukrainian economy, the transfer of knowledge on access points and explanations of the Ukrainian procurement system and personal networking.
The platform is accompanied and supported by the Bau-AUF-Ukraine Stiftung i.G.
The Forum: Bau-AUF-Ukraine will take place on Thursday, 26.09.2024 (10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.) in Hall 5 of the Stuttgart Exhibition Center.
If you are traveling by car, enter “Flughafenstrasse/Flughafen, Stuttgart” in the navigation system and head for the EAST ENTRANCE.
Stuttgart Airport (IATA code STR) is a 10-minute walk from Messe Stuttgart.
If you are traveling by train, take the U6 from Stuttgart main station to the trade fair (stop: Flughafen/Messe).
In Hall 5 of the trade fair, head for Stage 3
(blue rectangle) at the end of the hall.
Right next to it (yellow circle) is the Forum’s
meeting point: Bau-AUF-Ukraine.
Together with institutions and companies in Ukraine, many initiatives are making significant contributions to the reconstruction effort. This includes the German government’s Ukraine Reconstruction Platform. On the occasion of its opening, the Federal President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and the Ambassador of Ukraine, Oleksii Makaiev, called for further exchange and networking as well as private initiative.
The “Forum: Bau-AUF-Ukraine” follows this call. It forms a competition-neutral and hybrid event and meeting platform for interested parties in Ukraine and Germany to promote the transfer of knowledge, provide recommendations for action and initiate or revitalize partnerships in the construction and IT industries. In the process, connectivity to and for interested parties from the European Union must be established.
Companies and institutions from the construction and specialist IT sectors that want to work in partnership on climate-friendly reconstruction projects in Ukraine and the extended EU internal market can participate – in the short, medium and long term >> Horizontal perspective.
Public decision-making bodies are invited to provide information on the specific framework conditions and the next steps and to provide planning certainty. >> Vertical perspective.
Then become a member of the #BAU sponsorship club.
Club members sponsor events with their annual membership fees and receive free admission to the events, as well as a reserved place of honor at on-site events.
Together.
The Bau-AUF-Ukraine Foundation is in preparation and the Bau-AUF-Ukraine Club is being established.
We are already looking forward to welcoming supporters, interested parties and sponsors. With these focal points:
Before the war, there was a wide variety of partnerships between offices and companies in the construction industry, both large and small. Architects and engineers worked hand in hand. These times will come again and we won't wait. But what needs to be considered today? We are committed to the transfer of knowledge!
Whether roads or bridges, projects in the energy sector or healthcare. Companies are already setting an example. What can we learn from them? Questions about security, subsidies and financial resources, contractual and governmental framework conditions need to be answered. We are committed to providing information and reliable information.
Substantial funds were made available for reconstruction. And we also help with our own projects. With donations and support for projects in development, research and encounter.
The challenges for companies in the Ukrainian construction industry are enormous in this war. But there is a perspective beyond that: business in the eutopean domestic market. But what standards need to be observed and what are the conditions for sustainable planning and construction in the European Union? We are committed to information and training.
networked.
Companies and institutions from the construction industry and specialist IT who want to work in partnership on climate-friendly reconstruction projects in Ukraine and the extended EU internal market can take part – in the short, medium and long term. Public decision-making bodies are invited to provide information on the specific framework conditions and the next steps.
Synergetic.
