While many countries worldwide shift away from the previously car-friendly paradigm to promote sustainable transport, there is also a push towards the electrification of motorized vehicles and the search for alternative engine technologies across the automotive industry. In the context of the fundamental and long-term mobility transition all who are interested are warmly invited to join the event to explore possible pathways of future mobility by creating an interdisciplinary understanding of the complexity of the whole transport system, while focusing on specific elements, developments, drivers, and impacts.

The Boysen-TU Dresden-Research Training Group is an interdisciplinary research and doctoral study group, which enables young scientists to work on research projects dealing with a variety of issues related to sustainable energy systems and mobility. The third generation of the Research Training Group contains 18 mostly international fellows from different scientific backgrounds. The Spokesmen of the Research Training Group, Prof. Antonio Hurtado and Prof. Lutz Hagen and its managing director Dr. Anna Martius, extend a cordial invitation to the event. The summer school features panel discussions and lectures organized in close cooperation with DRESDEN-Concept partners such as the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IÖR) and UNU Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and Resources (UNU-FLORES), such as the panel discussion ‘International resource policy for the mobility transition’, which is one of the highlights of the event.

Today’s transport systems can be considered as socio-technical systems, characterized by the interplay of humans and technology. The Boysen Summer School sheds light on these issues based on five categories:

• Policy and Governance
• Technologies and Infrastructure
• Markets
• Culture
• Mobility Patterns

This serves as a framework to focus on discussions around the challenges stemming from the mobility transition, the disruptive technologies and innovations that drive the mobility transition, or the technological and societal solutions that foster the mobility transition.

The Boysen-TU Dresden-Summer School aims to make the participants aware of complex socio-technical nature of transport systems and ongoing processes of change. They should be equipped with the knowledge and skills to understand the multiple causality and insights into the co-evolution of independent developments reinforcing each other.

On the 20th and 21st of July renowned national and international experts will discuss and lecture on the above-mentioned topics

‘The Summer School Mobility in Transition recognizes that today’s mobility of people and goods undergoes a fundamental and long-term change. We offer an interdisciplinary understanding of the complexity of the whole transport system and its associated economic and socio-cultural impacts. Due to the ongoing Corona pandemic, the Summer School will be fully digital and free of charge. So this year it will be accessible from their own home to everyone across the globe’, says Dr. Anna Martius, Managing Director of the Boysen-TU Dresden Graduate School.

Registration for all or individual events of the Summer School is open until July 16th 2021 by following the link: https://tud.link/ub4h