leonardo@humtec.rwth-aachen.de

Projekt „Leonardo“

Interdisziplinäre Lehre: Meeting Global Challenges

Perspectives on mobility

- transformation paths to sustainable mobility

Registration

Registration takes place via RWTHonline and is possible from 15 March 2026 to 6 April 2026. Further information on the registration process can be found in the FAQs.

All students can register for one course. You can specify two preferences. To do so, please use the ‘high’ priority and the one directly below it. For instructions, please click here. If you have not been allocated a place at the end of the allocation process and are still interested in participating in a course, please contact sibel.yildirim@ipw.rwth-aachen.de.

(If you have any problems with registration, please contact Ms Sibel Yildirim (IPW) at sibel.yildirim@ipw.rwth-aachen.de, stating your matriculation number. If you have any general questions about the course, please contact the person listed below.)

We welcome your questions and comments. You can contact us here! (The ‘Leonardo’ project is also on Facebook and Instagram).

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Academic Responsibility

Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Paul Thomes

Interdisciplinary Management Factory, RWTH Aachen

Hon.-Prof. Dr. Martin Streichfuss

Chair of Economic Geography, RWTH Aachen

Contact Person

Sönke Hebing, M.Ed.

soenke.hebing@leonardo.rwth-aachen.de

Schedulue

Start

20.04.2026

Zeit

Monday, 18:30 – 20:00 h

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Description

Mobility, as a basic human need, has been and continues to be an important socio-economic factor. Traditionally, the motto was “faster, higher, further.” The issue of sustainability played only a minor role, even though transport services worldwide account for more than 20% of CO₂ emissions. With the increasingly rapid acceleration of climate change, the pressure to act is growing. New patterns of mobility must emerge.
Accordingly, the module addresses the opportunities, risks, and limitations of combining mobility consumption and mobility technology under the imperative of sustainable resource use. The focus lies on urban transport concepts in international comparison and historical perspective. Planned case studies include the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, and Bangkok.
The starting point is marked by the groundbreaking 1972 study by the Club of Rome, The Limits of Growth. For the first time, it placed the concept of sustainability as an indispensable premise of human action into the global public spotlight. The new mobility designs inspired by this shift in awareness will be analyzed and compared in order to identify criteria for success and failure.

Learning Outcomes

The course is designed to enable students to systematically and holistically analyze and interpret mobility on a historical basis. The methodological and subject-specific competence thus acquired not only equips them to actively and critically engage with research and teaching during their studies. It also enables them to design and implement sustainable mobility research and mobility models.

To foster articulation and argumentative skills, the module places great emphasis on communication between students and lecturers; that is, all sessions ideally include a 45-minute discussion component. Information material will be made available in the learning space beforehand.

 

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Procedure/Working method​

Depending on the course of studies, module and examination, credit points can be achieved through participation. If you would like to take an exam, please make sure beforehand how you can get credit for it in your degree program. Of course, you can also take exams without receiving curricular credit for them. Visit our FAQs for more information.

Certificate

2 CP Minutes, 3 CP Presentation, 4 CP Term Paper
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