From October 6 to 7 approximately 80 decision makers representing cities across Europe are meeting in Mannheim: The Eurocities Mobility Forum will be dealing with 'smart mobility for smart cities' in the birth place of automobiles. 

Shai Agassi received the first Bertha-Carl-Benz Award of the city of Mannheim. “Shai Agassi has inspired us with his contribution to mobility and addressing the climate challenge and it is because of his efforts that we have awarded him this special gift,“ said Mayor Dr. Peter Kurz.

Mannheim is a city of many strengths, a great and resourceful city – a fact, however, mainly the people of Mannheim are aware of. This sentence sums up the study on “Cosmopolitanism on your Doorstep. A Study of the Spirit of Mannheim” by Prof. Martina Löw, sociologist at the TU Darmstadt university. The study was commissioned by Stadtmarketing Mannheim (the city’s marketing bureau), the Heinrich-Vetter-Stiftung foundation and Mannheim’s Büro 2020.

Adaptive reuse - the redevelopment for alternative use of areas used by the military in Mannheim - is a topic of great interest for the city’s citizens. This was seen clearly at the first public information session, held on Thursday, April 7 in the N1 Stadthaus. Almost 300 Mannheim residents attended the meeting in order to learn about the opportunities and perspectives offered by the redevelopment sites, totaling 510 hectares.