People all around the world share a joint responsibility for sustainable development. Fundamental changes to the way in which we do business and the way we live are needed in order to enable future generations to live their lives with respect and prosperity in an intact environment.
The four RENN hubs create links between various players and initiatives to promote sustainable development, foster dialogue on experiences gained and provide impulses for societal change. The RENN thus make the complex concept of sustainability something which can be experienced across regions and national borders.
The RENN are being supported by the federal government for a period of five years. The German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) has been tasked with selection of the hubs and has established a coordination centre in Berlin that will support and guide the four RENN hubs in unfolding nationwide impact.
Website “Regional Hubs for Sustainability Strategies (RENN)”
Tasks of the RENN hubs
The RENN hubs are a regionally organised platform for information exchange and activity surrounding the topic of sustainable development.
- They serve to link players among one another and consolidate societal dialogue.
- They provide impulses for societal transformation.
- They foster innovation, strategy, projects and the exchange of ideas.
- They bolster the flow of information between players from civil society at municipal, state and federal level.
RENN hubs
RENN.north
Responsible for: Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein
Consortium leader: Association for the Protection of German Forests, Hamburg State Chapter (SDW)
Partners: Academy for Sustainable Development Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (ANE); Centre for Education on Nature, the Environment and Rural Areas in the State of Schleswig-Holstein (BNUR); Office Environmental Companies, Bremen; Association of Education Initiatives in Lower Saxony (VNB) together with Kommunale Umwelt-AktioN UAN e.V. (Community Environment Action Association)
Contact:
Association for the Protection of German Forests, Hamburg State Chapter (SDW)
Am Inselpark 19, 21109 Hamburg
Cordula Wellmann: wellmann_RENN.nordHH@wald.de, +49 (40) 302 156 544
RENN.central
Responsible for: Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia
Consortium leader: Future-Proof Thuringia
Partners: Berlin 21 e. V., Brandenburg 21 e. V., CivixX Workshop for Civil Society, Network for the Future Saxony Anhalt
Contact:
Future-Proof Thuringia e.V.
im Kowo Haus der Vereine
Johannesstraße 2
99084 Erfurt
Josef Ahlke: josef.ahlke@zukunftsfaehiges-thueringen.de, +49 (361) 43020322
RENN.south
Responsible for: Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg
Consortium leader: Sustainability Office of the Central Environmental Authority of the State of Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)
Partners: Bavarian State Network for Civil Engagement (LBE)
Contact:
Sustainability Office of the Central Environmental Authority of the State of Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)
Griesbachstr. 1, 76185 Karlsruhe
Dorothee Lang, Dorothee.Lang@lubw.bwl.de, +49 (721) 56001297
RENN.west
Responsible for: Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland
Consortium leader: State Working Committee Agenda 21 NRW (LAG 21)
Partners: Working Committee for Nature and Environmental Education (ANU) Hesse State Association, Energy Agency Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate State Network for Development Policy (ELAN), European Academy Otzenhausen (EAO), Germanwatch e. V., Birkenfeld Environment Studies Campus at Trier University of Applied Sciences
Contact:
State Working Committee Agenda 21 NRW (LAG 21)
Deutsche Str. 10, 44339 Dortmund
Dr Klaus Reuter: k.reuter@lag21.de, +49 (231) 93696010
RENN.coordination centre
A national coordination centre has been established at the offices of the RNE. It sees itself as a “cross-regional node” and service provider, provides orientational and coordinating assistance within the RENN network and fosters the efficacy of the hubs throughout Germany. In addition, it assesses the current status quo of activities to thereby enable execution of the subsidised commission.
Anna Lotta Nagel
Project Manager
German Council for Sustainable Development
Office c/o GIZ GmbH
Potsdamer Platz 10, 10785 Berlin
T +49 (0) 30 338424-534
anna.nagel@nachhaltigkeitsrat.de
Anushika Siva
Project Manager
German Council for Sustainable Development
Office c/o GIZ GmbH
Potsdamer Platz 10, 10785 Berlin
T +49 (0) 30 338424-737
anushika.siva@nachhaltigkeitsrat.de
Silja-Kristin Vogt (on parental leave)
Project Manager
German Council for Sustainable Development
Office c/o GIZ GmbH
Potsdamer Platz 10, 10785 Berlin
T +49 (0) 30 338424-404
silja-kristin.vogt@nachhaltigkeitsrat.de
