Today the first real scooter trip was a fact for shift 3 riders. After an inspiring morning on campaigning strategies, we hit the road for a cold but beautiful 40 kilometer scooter trip.

Infrastructure
During lunch we shared our first thoughts on our topic of the manifesto: Infrastructure. A lot of ideas came up on how infrastructure should be used in order to stimulate electric mobility. Then we took off again for another 15 kilometers of a police escorted trip on the highways of Germany on our very nice electric scooters.

Negiotiations
Arrived in Schlesswig we got a warm welcome from Robert Schliessler, film maker, teacher and communication expert. He gave an interesting presentation on how bring out your ideas towards your target group. The functioning and interaction of different parts of the brain seem to play a big part in this. This lecture was an introduction on a Negotions Simulations Game. This game made it very clear that decision making with a large group of stakeholders can be very complicated. Simulating voting on important environmental issues happening at the moment in Copenhagen showed the importance of clarifying your goal and employ fair voting techniques. So also parties who ‘lost’ the voting in first instance are to be given a second chance.Especially in climate discussions this is very important.

To conclude the day we can say that making your goal very clear and at the right target group is of the utmost importance in Copenhagen!

With regards,

Your roadies Michiel Wiggers and Marlou Scheltes!