To start the academic year with a community experience CeMM had its yearly Outing on Friday, October 5, 2018. This year´s thematic focus was on traffic and public transport, and built on our previous SMART lecture held by architect and urban design consultant Jan Gehl on “Livable cities for the 21st century”.

We were very glad for the opportunity to visit the light rail manufacturing plant of Siemens Mobility GmbH in the 11th district of Vienna which is usually not open to visitors. After a short presentation and introduction we had guided tours through the production halls learning more about the impressive logistics of a successful global company and the building process of railway vehicles for safe, cost-effective and environment-friendly passenger and freight transport.

We had a very nice lunch at the “Kantine in der Brotfabrik Wien", where experienced professionals run a social business and created jobs for people with less job opportunities.

And the afternoon was dedicated to a voluntary photo and group challenge. Again, with the overall topic traffic and public transportation. A lot of creative, artistic, profound, interesting and funny photos have been taken by our CeMM members in six different categories while walking and exploring the city. The winning pictures will be released through our social media channels soon. For those who participated in the afternoon program, the day ended with Vienna sausages and drinks at Bitzinger Wurst Stand at Albertinaplatz.

We thank all companies and our PR and Event Manager Eva Schweng and the Admin Team for making the outing an enjoyable and interesting event.