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Martin Viehöver:
Curriculum Vitae


Personal: 
First Name: Martin
Middle Name: Gebhard
Last Name: Viehöver
Gender: male
Birth date (dd/mm/jj): 21.11.1974
Organization: Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations 
Country: Germany
Email: martin (at) viehoever.de
Homepages: www.viehoever.de, www.srzg.de and www.yois.org
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Education: 
1994-1997 Town and Environmental Planing, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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1997 - present Spatial Planning,University of Dortmund, Germany
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Retraining/Other Conferences: 
1996: “Global Restructuring: A Place for Ecology?”, Congress of the Greening of Industry Network, Heidelberg
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1997: “Mobility in the metropolis of the 21st Century”, international Symposium, University of Kaiserslautern
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1999: 3rd European Planerbiennal „Sustainable Development – a challenge for the regions of Europe“, Herne
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1999: „National Urbanism Congress“ of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing, Berlin
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1999: "Energy Taxes in the EU - The Monti-Directives and its Perspecives", HBS/FES, Brussels
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1999: "Unveiling Wealth? - Does money blur perspectives for a better life?", Science Centre North Rhine-Westphalia, Wuppertal
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2000: Hannover Conference 2000: Third European Conference of sustainable cities and towns, Hannover
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2000: Global Meeting of Generations, network for intergenerational dialouges, Istanbul
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2000: Generations in conflict, colloquium of the Alfred Herrhausen Society, Berlin
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Job/Profession: 
1994-1996: BIKE's EDGE, import & export of bicycle parts and accessories from the USA to Germany and Europe
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1999: Trainee and company contract holder at the  Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, LLC (Certificate)
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2000: freelancer for Agenda4
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1994 - present: Student
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Voluntary engagement: 
1996-1998 Chairman of the Young Ecologists (Jungen Ökologen e.V. - (jö))
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1997 - 2000: Co-founder of the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) (Stiftung für die Rechte zukünftiger Generationen, SRzG), member of the board of directors, Leader of the study group ecology of the FRFG

2000 - present: Co-founder of Youth for Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability (YOIS) and chairman of YOIS Europe. 
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Publications: 
University of Dortmund, 1998, F-Project 08, Sustainable urban Development in Münster - the Project Häger, Dortmund (german only).
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Tremmel, J., Viehöver, M., 2000, Ecological Tax Reform and Intergenerational Justice, in: GAIA magazine, Stuttgart (german only)
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EEA, 2001, Environmental taxes: recent developments in tools for integration, Copenhagen. 
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Hobbies: 
Sports (biking, snowboarding, dancing and inline skating ), Politics, Reading, Writing
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Other: 
the complete list is available here.
Official Organisers:
Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations
The Secretariat of Youth for Habitat International Network
Youth Initiative EXPO 2000

last update: 01.02.2001