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Chair of Regional planning Prof. Dr. Ludger Gailing

Martin Reents

© Martin Reents

Contact
Building 2A, Room 2.05
T +49 (0) 355 69 3915
Martin.Reents(at)b-tu.de

Since 2023
Research associate at the department of Regional Planning of the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg in the BMBF projects "Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries" (04/2021-03/2024) and "Cross-InnoNet: Cross-border public services Berlin-Szczecin. A governance network in the health and mobility policy fields along the modernized train route" (09/2022-03/2025), as well as the Interreg A-project "BB-L Interconnection: Vision for a joint interaction area" (04/2024-03/2027)

Since 2017
Head of the Potsdam office of INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT Professor Böhm und Partner

Since 2004
Staff member of INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT Professor Böhm und Partner, Potsdam office

2002 – 2004
Staff member of FGS Forschungs- und Planungsgruppe Stadt und Verkehr, Berlin

1995 – 2001
Studies in Spatial Planning at the Dortmund University, with semester abroad in Szczecin, Poland

  • Spatial and regional development in the German-Polish area of interactions
  • (Global) transformation processes and spatial justice
  • Participatory planning and regional development
  • Social cohesion
  • Regional analyses, specialist studies and expert opinions on cross-border transport and spatial development, in particular in the German-Polish area of interactions
  • Transnational and cross-border cooperation within the framework of Interreg – development and implementation of cooperation projects, elaboration and monitoring of cooperation programmes
  • Organisation and moderation of cooperation and participation processes, public relations work
  • European spatial development

Reents, M./Thurm, S./Ulrich, P./Wenzelburger, G. (2024): Policy-Transfer in und zwischen Borderlands. Grenzregionale Strategien als Beispiele für inter- und intranationalen Policy-Transfer. In: Bonin, S./Gailing, L./Mangels, K./Schank, T./Zinkhahn Rhobodes, D. (Hrsg.): Linking Borderlands. Komplexität – Dynamik – Interdisziplinarität (Border Studies. Cultures, Spaces, Orders). Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 135-146.

Bembnista, K./Blaser, B./Bonin, S./Dörrenbächer, H. P./Fellner, A. M./Gailing, L./Jungbluth, K./Lampke, A./Luxenburger, I./Mangels, K./Micka, L./Nossem, E./Orlova, G./Pallagst, K./Pfundstein, N./Polzin-Haumann, C./Reents, M./Richter, N./Schank, T./Thurm, S./Ulrich, P./Weber, F./Wenzelburger, G./Zinkhahn Rhobodes, D. (Hrsg.) (2023): Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries. Conceptual and empirical insights from an interdisciplinary perspective. UniGR-CBS Working Paper Vol. 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8032941

Weiß, Leonard; Nowakowski, Jan; Reents, Martin; Gailing, Ludger: Entwicklungsachse als „imaginary“ und Instrument zur regionalen Kooperation im Transformationsprozess? Das Beispiel „Innovationskorridor Berlin-Lausitz“. Symposium: Räumliche Dimensionen von Transformationsprozessen, held by the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenbergand the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Cottbus, 10. Januar 2025

Reents, Martin: Common Future Vision for the German-Polish Interaction Area. Workshop with students of the Politechnicka Krakowska (Cracow University of Technology) at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg, Cottbus, 17. Oktober 2024

Reents, Martin: Contact zones or conflict zones? The Oder River and the Muskau Arch as socio-material and mental drivers of German-Polish interactions. PECSRL Conference 2024, Lublin/Zamość, 9. September 2024

Reents, Martin: From vision to implementation - the case of the Common Future Vision for the German-Polish Interaction Area. 35th AESOP Annual Congress, Łódź, 12. Juli 2023

Reents, Martin: Spatial planning cooperation between Germany and Poland since 1995. Reflections on Energy, Environment & Infrastructure. Fellows-Workshop im Rahmen des BMBF-Projektes “Linking Borderlands” at the Chair of Regional Planning of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg, Cottbus, 19. Juni 2023

Since 2015
Delegate of the Association of Town, Regional and State Planning (SRL e.V.) to the European Council of Spatial Planners (ECTP-CEU)

Since 2014
Member of the Committee for European Affairs of the Association of Town, Regional and State Planning (SRL e.V.), since 2022 Chair

Gailing, Ludger; Reents, Martin: Projekt „Doppelstadt Cottbus-Zielona Góra – Chancen und Potenziale einer 360°-Perspektive in der Lausitz und in der Wojewodschaft Lubuskie“, im Rahmen des Moduls 13884/5/6, Masterstudiengang Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Wintersemester 2024/2025