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The Peace of Venice (1177), which ended the nearly twenty-year-long schism between Pope Alexander III and his opponents supported by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, has long been the subject of controversy among scholars, who focused initially on the concrete provisions of the treaty and more recently on the symbolic acts that affirmed it. This paper uses Alexandrian sources to concentrate on peace itself as the pope's most important political goal: the biography of Alexander written by his cardinal Boso, the frescoes in the Lateran Palace painted after the victory, and other statements made by the pope himself and his supporters reveal his primary goal to be the restoration of unity and peace. This thinking may have been rooted in the Christian ethic of peace as well as in the enduring ideal of cooperation between pope and emperor. It offers an explanation for the pope's willingness to compromise in Venice, often viewed with astonishment today, expressed through the choice of location, the staging, as well as personnel and material decisions. Alexander did not aim to supercede the emperor, nor to achieve victory on specific issues in detail; instead, his goal throughout the schism seems to have been a return to peace and cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, growth coalitions and growth critiques are examined by using the example of in-migration policies in the context of Jena case study. This is based on the following questions: Which local growth coalitions do exist with which growth goals? To what extent do growth boundaries lead to an expansion of local growth coalitions with the urban hinterland? What kind of growth-critical positions are there in urban politics and to what extent do they question growth policies? The paper particularly ties in with the theoretical discussion of post-growth planning and enriches it by an empirical reflection by examining forms of municipal growth scepticism as well as limits of regional cooperation. The results show that there is a distinct growth coalition in Jena, which pursues the goal of attracting skilled workers to secure economic growth. However, due to natural growth limits and the resistance of individual residents, in-migration policies are reaching their limits, so that intermunicipal cooperation in the urban region is being sought as a fallback solution. Explicit critiques of growth and a fundamental public discussion about growth policies, on the other hand, just begin to emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

City-regional discourses around organisational forms offer little evidence to analyse and guide cooperative processes in a context-specific way. Design criteria can contribute to overcoming this deficit. This paper operationalises a proposed set of design criteria by drawing on the discourses on collaborative governance and land management. Subsequently, these design criteria are used to analyse an ongoing process for the development of a housing development concept in the Leipzig city region and to reflect on the criteria. This contributes to the question of how collaborative governance of land-use development in city regions should be designed. Important points of reference for the design of cooperations are the conscious selection of the actors to be involved and the development of mutual trust between them, joint definition of rules of the game for cooperation, determination of the nature of the emerging institution, orientation of the joint work towards the future and the development of a common understanding of the situation to be improved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite all efforts to date, the original 2020 targets for reducing land use have not been met. In growing urban regions, the most urgent challenge at present seems to be to moderate increasing conflicts over the use of land, a resource that is becoming increasingly scarce. For sustainable land management in times of surging interdependencies across municipal boundaries, inter-municipal cooperation is becoming increasingly important. However, competitive incentives make sustainable, cooperative settlement development more difficult. In this context, compensation systems that enable a systematic balance of interests and provide incentives for sustainable, land-saving settlement development, are currently being discussed. Ideally, they should resolve the contradictions between local interests and regional goals, if they are properly adapted to the respective region. This paper places compensation systems in the international debate and proposes a categorization for further analysis. Using the example of the Rendsburg region (Germany), success factors for compensation systems in land management are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences is the largest library worldwide in the field of life sciences. From October 2016 to June 2018 Dietrich Nelle was its interim managing director. In this interview, he informs about ZB MED's evaluation, realignment and cooperations. Furthermore, he speaks about open access, German Medical Science, research data management and research activities at ZB MED. Moreover, Nelle explains the position paper “Academic libraries 2025', which he co-authored, and gives insight into his motivation to become provisional head of ZB MED. Finally, he drafts a possible way for the instituion's resumption into the Leibniz Association in January 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a reading of Bühler's Sprachtheorie froma linguistic point of view. Attention is paid to some yet actual and not fully exploited topics: a) the critic of the segmental phonological model; b) the physiognomical model, the Gestalt point of view in the representation of the sound shape of language and a new view on pertinence; c) the theory of two fields and the cooperation between the symbolic field and the deictic one; d) the critic of the principle of the »poverty of the stimulus«; e) the role of the listener; f) the notion of »language game«. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the start of the Corona pandemic, the Helios nursing schools faced many challenges. Face-to-face teaching had to be switched to digital, communication no longer took place on site but on channels such as Zoom, Skype or Teams. At the same time, the Helios central library licensed an interactive learning tool and made it available to the nursing schools. This paper describes the process of implementation, communication, support and collaboration around the platform in the midst of a time when contact restrictions became commonplace. It has become clear that the library can and must support the development of media and information literacy in nursing schools. Despite the high communication effort that continues, the Helios central library is much more present in the minds of all teachers and students. Thanks to the project, the library has established itself as a point of contact for the nursing schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cooperation of university libraries with intra- and extra-university institutions with the goal of teaching information literacy has increased significantly in recent years. The topic of information literacy and the accurate handling of information have become a key skill in many areas, in society, in the economy, in education as well as in further training. Therefore, libraries are increasingly becoming educational institutions within the universities, colleges, schools and other institutions to which they belong. Vienna university library participates in this development and offers assistance for the accurate handling of information as the basis of writing academic or pre-academic papers in a variety of collaborations. These include courses at university as well as school levels which are tailored to the target groups. Some of these collaborations are discussed in detail: the training of PhD students and writing mentors in individual study courses, the support for pre-scientific work in schools and the training of school librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]