Professional focus

EU project development and management, ERDF, INTERREG, Horizon 2020

Mexico / Bioeconomy/ Road safety/ EU Spatial Planning

Scientific career

Since 03/2016 Research fellow at the department for "International Planning Systems" at Technische Universität Kaiserslauten.

Horizon 2020 Project RE-CITY ITN

BMBF Project GIAGEM

3 months research stay at the University Guadalajara (Mexico) during the BMBF project GIAGEM.

05/2018 - 12/2018:Project assistancein french within the IAC Berlin project "Promouvoir le dialogue citoyen et la gouvernance locale participative - Marocco" of the Robert Bosch Foundation

08/2014 – 12/2015 Project Officer SaarLorLux at University of Applied sciences Kaiserslautern, Resort Economic and Transfer

04/2010 - 06/2013 Project Manager (INTERREG IVB Project) of the EU Project SOL “Save Our Lives. A Comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Central Europe”, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Geographisches Institut, Arbeitsgruppe Humangeographie & Entwicklungsforschung (HuGe)

05/2009 - 06/2009 Freelance „European Green Capital Award 2011“, Ministry of Urban Development and Environment, Hamburg

01/2009 - 06/2009 Scientific Assistant at HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Department Urban and Regional Planning

04/2008 - 12/2008 Scientific Collaborator at University of Luxembourg, Unité de recherche IPSE (Identités. Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces), Laboratoire de Géographie et d’Aménagement du territoire

10/2001 - 01/2008 Studies of Spatial Planning: Engineer of Spatial Planning (Dipl.-Ing.). Diploma-thesis: “Territorial Cohesion in Germany from a French Perspective”.

Traineeships:

10/2007 - 03/2008 Coordination Unit of the European Spatial Planning Observation Unit (ESPON CU), European Programme Secretariat, (Working language: English)

11/2004 - 02/2005 Brussels and Strasbourg, Member of the European Parliament, Resorts „Economic and Monetary Affairs“ and „Industry, Trade, Research and Energy“

Awards, Prizes and Scholarships

20.09.2015 – 27.09.2015 Egon-Bahr Fellowship (in Germany), Friedrich Ebert Foundation
online: http://deu.fesmos.ru/spheres/seminars-egon-bar/report-2015/

25.09.2014 – 5.10.2014 Egon-Bahr Fellowship (in Russia), Friedrich Ebert Foundation
online: deu.fesmos.ru/spheres/seminars-egon-bar/report-2014/

2009 German-French Future Dialogue, online: www.zukunftsdialog.eu/de/projekt/
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V. (DGAP), Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri), Robert Bosch Stiftung. 

2008 ARL-FRU Mentoring Programme, online: www.arl-net.de/projekte/mentoring
Akademie für Raumordnung und Landesplanung (ARL), Förderkreis für Raum- und Umweltforschung e.V. (FRU), HafenCity Universität Hamburg.

Publications

• Karina Pallagst; José Vargas-Hernández; Patricia Hammer (2019): Green Innovation Areas - En route to sustainability for Shrinking Cities. In. Sustainability2019, 11(23), 6674. DOWNLOAD pdf

• Karina Pallagst; José Vargas-Hernández; Patricia Hammer (2019): GIAGEM Handbook of recommendations - The Role of Green Innovation Areas in Revitalizing German and Mexican Cities (available in English and Spanish) DOWNLOAD Handbook of recommendations in English

• Karina Pallagst; José Vargas-Hernández; Patricia Hammer (2019): GIAGEM Manual de recomendaciones - El rol de las Areas Verdes de Innovacíon en la Revitalizacíon de las Ciudades Alemanas y Mexicanas DOWNLOAD espagnolDOWNLOAD Manual de recomendaciones

• Karina Pallagst; José Vargas-Hernándes; Patricia Hammer (Editors): The Role of Green Innovation Areas in Revitalizing German and Mexican Cities. Fondo Editorial Universitario Carrer La Murta 9-18. ISBN: 978-84-17840-17-4 Download pdf

• José Vargas-Hernándes; Karina Pallagst; Patricia Hammer (2018): Urban green spaces as a component of an ecosystem functions, services, users, community involvement, initiatives and actions. In International Journal of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources, 8 (1)

• José Vargas-Hernández; Karina Pallagst; Patricia Hammer (2018): Desenvolvimento econômico ambientalmente sustentável baseado em Bioeconomia. In Revista Internacional Interdisciplinar INTERthesis

• José G. Vargas-Hernández; Karina Pallagst; Patricia Hammer (2018): Bioeconomía en la encrucijada del desarrollo sostenible. Revista Iberoamericana de Bioeconomia y Cambio Climatico. Vol. 4, Num. 7 (2018)

• José G. Vargas-Hernández; Karina Pallagst; Patricia Hammer (2018): Bio-economy at the Crossroads of Sustainable Development. In: Dhiman S., Marques J. (eds) Handbook of Engaged Sustainability. Springer, Cham

• José G. Vargas-Hernández; Karina Pallagst; Patricia Hammer (2018): Strategic Management Innovation of Urban Green Spaces for Sustainable Community Development. In: Dhiman S., Marques J. (eds) Handbook of Engaged Sustainability. Springer, Cham Publisher Name Springer, Cham. Online ISBN 978-3-319-53121-2 DO 

• José G. Vargas Hernandez; Karina Pallagst; Patricia Hammer (2018): Strategy of sustainable development based on bio-economy. In. Revista Iberoamericana de Bioeconomía y Cambio Climático. ISSN 2410-7980 Vol. 4 núm. 7 (2018) 

• Karina Pallagst et al. (2017): Green Innovation Areas and sustainable planning approaches as drivers for urban and regional development? In. PlanIt Vol 1/2017 ISSN (online) 2198-4514

• José G. Vargas Hernandez; Karina Pallagst; Patricia Hammer (2017): Urban green spaces as a component of an ecosystem: Functions, services, users, community involvement, initiatives and actions. In. Economics of Variables Renewable Sources for Electric Power Production. Mohamed El-Shimy (Ed.). Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-330-08361-5

• Vargas-Hernández, J. G., Pallagst, K and Hammer, P. (2017): Bio economy's institutional and policy framework for the sustainable development of nature's ecosystems. In. Economìa Coyuntural, Revista de temas de perpectivas y coyuntura, 2017, vol. 2, issue 3, 51-104

• Karina Pallagst, José Vargas-Hernández, Patricia Hammer: Green innovation areas as contested spaces? Investigating potentials and risks of revitalization schemes in shrinking cities; AESOP Congress Book of Abstracts, 2017

• José G. Vargas Hernandez; Karina Pallagst; Patricia Hammer (2017): Urban green spaces as a component of an ecosystem: Functions, services, users, community involvement, initiatives and actions. In. Economics of Variables Renewable Sources for Electric Power Production. Mohamed El-Shimy (Ed.). Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-330-08361-5

• Donner, Noemi; Hammer, Patricia. 2015. Ab zum Nachbarn! Arbeitswelt Luxemburg. In: Rundschau der HS Kaiserslautern 3/2015, 42-43.

• McMahon, Kate; Hammer, Patricia; Milotti, Alberto. 2013. The SOL road safety guidelines: Advice for Experts, Stakeholders and Decision makers.

• Hammer, Patricia; Rothfuss, Rainer, Machatta, Klaus. 2013. Road Safety in Central Europe: Recommendations for Policy Makers and Practitioners. In: The Parliament Magazine.

• Rothfuss, Rainer; Hammer, Patricia; Elsig, Kathleen; Mayser, Katherina. 2012. Innovative road safety approaches. Transnational networking for local action. In: Cities for Mobility Newsletter Jg. 6, H. 3/12., 7-8.

• Rothfuss, Rainer; Hammer, Patricia; Elsig, Kathleen. 2012. Communities in Central Europe take steps to improve road safety. In: Regional Review Magazine, Oktober 2012, 78-79.

• Mikusova, Miroslava; Rothfuss, Rainer; Hammer, Patricia. 2012. SOL good practice examples. In: ZBORNIK PRISPEVKOV A POSTEROV. University of Zilina (Ed.) ISBN 978-80-554-0512-4

• Hammer, Patricia. 2011. Towards a sustainable transnational cooperation for mutual learning in the field of road safety: Recommendation for the exchange of tacit knowledge to the region of Warmia Mazury (Poland). online Publication, Website of network 2H2S.

• Hammer, Patricia; Lion, Georges-Henri. 2010. Bilinguale Publikation/ Policy Brief (Deutsch/ Französisch). Antwort auf die Krise: Eine deutsch-französische Umweltpolitik. In: Frankreich Themen 2010. Nomos Verlag. – La réponse de la France et de l’Allemagne à la crise: une politique environnementale commune. In: Radioscopies de l’Allemagne 2010. IFRI (ed.).

• Hammer, Patricia. 2008. The Symbolic Function of Metropolitan Areas – A Set of Indicators for Planners “. N°721 auf der CD “conference papers” des Kongress ACSP-AESOP Fourth Joint Congress „Bridging the divide; celebrating the city“, University of Illinois at Chicago - ACSP und AESOP (Hrsg.), Chicago.

• Hammer, Patricia et al. 2005. Bilingual Publication (German / Spanish). F02 2003/2003 Aysén bricht auf. Perspektiven für den Anfang der Welt. Nachhaltiger Tourismus im Süden Chiles – Aisén emprende la marcha. Perspectivas para el principio del mundo. Turismo sostenible en el sur de Chile.” In: SPRING Working Papers No. 23. Dortmund.