14 May 2019 The Chairperson of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications Katarina Rakic and Committee member Snezana B. Petrovic in study visit to Slovenia
The Chairperson of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications Katarina Rakic and Committee member Snezana B. Petrovic paid a study visit to Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 13 – 14 May 2019.
The objective of the study visit was to present best urban mobility and transport planning practices to parliamentary support services and parliamentarians from the Western Balkan region on the example of the city of Ljubljana.
The participants were greeted to the City Hall by the Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Jankovic, while Matik Sopotnik of the Transportation Department talked to them about the sustainable urban mobility policy and reconstruction of Slovenian Street in Ljubljana.
On day two, at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, the guests were given a talk on the national support for urban mobility by Edvard Paulic, member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia and Chair of the Committee on Infrastructure, Environment and Spatial Planning, and Polona Demsar Mitrovic, head of the Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning sustainable mobility team. Luka Mladenovic of the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia spoke about Slovenia’s activities under the auspices of European Mobility Week.
The realization of this activity was supported by the Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe (ORF-EE) conducted on the behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).