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Mobility and (No-)Flight policy – Degrowth Vienna 2020
The Degrowth Community must set an example in this regard.
For this reason, we wish to actively discourage participants from flying to the conference. We believe that we need to challenge the current academic culture of frequent flying (mostly in the Global North), while still striving towards as much cultural diversity, open exchange, and especially North-South dialogue, as possible.
“VIENNA 2020” HUBS AROUND THE WORLD – CHANGE LOCALLY!
Instead of flying to Vienna, we encourage online participation and the “exporting” of the degrowth conference abroad – using the event as an opportunity to create multiple degrowth conference hubs and events around the world.
There can be many other opportunities for people to get actively engaged and we encourage interested persons to get creative! We will do our best to support all activities in this direction.
We hope that the conference can make a greater impact on global change this way than allowing individual isolated participants flying here to be present in Vienna in person.
We will determinedly support, endorse, promote and celebrate those who choose to take part in the conference without flying here to be present. Those participating in the conference online can still receive a “confirmation of attendance” document from us and will of course not incur participation fees.
LAND-BASED TRAVEL: RAIL, BUS, FERRY
- AMSTERDAM -> VIENNA: 10-17 hours, typically change in Frankfurt or Hannover and Nürnberg
- BARCELONA -> VIENNA: 20-24 hours, overnight stop in Paris or overnight train from Zürich
- BERLIN -> VIENNA: 8 hours, direct train, night train via Poland (longer)
- BRUSSELS -> VIENNA: 10 OR 16 hours, direct train, overnight train possible (longer)
- BUCHAREST -> VIENNA: 20-21 hours, direct train, overnight train possible
- CHISINAU -> VIENNA: 30-40 hours, typically change in Bucharest
- COPENHAGEN -> VIENNA: 15-17 hours, typically via Hamburg (with night train from Hamburg)
- KIEV -> VIENNA: 22 hours, direct train
- LISBON -> VIENNA: 50 hours, with overnight stay in Madrid and Paris
- LJUBLJANA -> VIENNA: 7-9 hours, typically change in Sevnica
- LONDON -> VIENNA: 12-14 hours, typically over Brussels and/or Cologne or Frankfurt.
- MADRID -> VIENNA: 30 hours, typically via Barcelona, Lyon and Zürich
- MOSCOW -> VIENNA: 28 hours, direct train
- OSLO -> VIENNA: 26-27 hours, typically over Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Hamburg
- PARIS-> VIENNA: 11 hours, typically via Frankfurt
- ROME -> VIENNA: 11-15 hours, direct train, overnight train also possible
- STOCKHOLM -> VIENNA: 22-27 hours, typically changes in Malmö, Copenhagen and Hamburg with overnight train from Hamburg to Vienna
- WARSAW -> VIENNA: 7-9 hours OR 12 hours, direct train, overnight train possible (longer)
- ZAGREB -> VIENNA: 7 hours, direct train
- ZÜRICH-> VIENNA: 8 hours, direct, (night train possible)
- ATHENS -> VIENNA: 32 hour bus (i.e. ArdaTur and/or Flixbus) via Thessaloniki and/or Sofia
- BELGRADE -> VIENNA: 10 hour bus (i.e. Flixbus) via Budapest
- DUBLIN -> VIENNA: ferry to mainland Europe (i.e. France), then train to Paris, then follow steps for Paris (above)
- HELSINKI -> VIENNA: ferry to Stockholm, then follow steps above from Stockholm; OR ferry to Tallinn and follow steps for Tallinn (below)
- ISTANBUL -> VIENNA: 24 hour bus (i.e. ArdaTur) via Plovdiv or Sofia
- PODGORICA -> VIENNA: 21 hour bus (i.e. Globtour and Flixbus) via Belgrade
- RIGA -> VIENNA: bus to Warsaw (12 hours), then follow steps from Warsaw to Vienna
- SARAJEVO -> VIENNA: 13 hour bus (i.e. Flixbus) via Graz
- SKOPJE -> VIENNA: 14 hour bus (i.e. Euro Bus)
- TALLINN -> VIENNA: bus to Warsaw (18 hours), then follow steps from Warsaw to Vienna
- TIRANA -> VIENNA: 24 hour bus (i.e. Euro Bus)
- VILNIUS -> VIENNA: bus to Warsaw (7-9 hours), then follow steps from Warsaw to Vienna
CONTACT US
Since we have a lot of experienced non-fliers in our organising team please feel free to get in touch with us if you have any queries about this: info@degrowthvienna.org
We also support, endorse, promote and celebrate land-based travel from further afield. If you plan to travel to our conference via land-based travel from elsewhere, please let us know so that we can publicise this and inspire others: media@degrowthvienna.org