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The official programme of this year's Colloquium concludes with another lunch in our mensa and a joint closing discussion. We would like to thank all 30+ participants for their inspiring presentations and discussions and wish all our guests a pleasant journey home! 😊

In another example of the bright and diverse topics from the Colloquium and within our discipline, Felix Klimm presents his findings on the co-creation of educational escape rooms on paludiculture and peatlands as an approach to transformative education.

After another fruitful coffee break, the final session of the day was opened by Xuheng Wang, who raised the question of the difference between "Clusterbranding" and "Cluster-Branding" in a local E-commerce context.

Tillmann Meisel concludes the first session of the day with quantitative insights on the socio-spatial anchoring of transformational processes across German regions.

Next, Ihar Buika presented his preliminary findings on an agonistic legitimation approach to regional innovation capacity in peripheralized regions of Eastern Germany.

The third session of the colloquium, and today's first, includes three contributions from the same project and was kicked off by Johannes Müller, who examined social innovation discourses in rural Eastern Germany.

On the bike excursion we then visited the historic market square, our historic museum harbour, rode along the towpath on the River Ryck to the ruins of Eldena Abbey, which was founded in 1199, and ended our tour in the fishing village of Wieck with a joint dinner.

Daniel Schiller then introduced us to the history and development of the Hanseatic city of Greifswald and set the scene for the following field trip.

After a walk through the sunny city centre of Greifswald and a lunch break in our mensa, we started the afternoon with a group discussion and reflections on our role as researchers and the relationship to our research.

After insights into the meat industry, Jue Peng now turns our attention to the beer market in China, focusing on prosumers, changing values and market construction. After the discussion we should be ready for lunch.

Marwaa Zazai continues the discourse on the geography of labour. She presents first insightful project findings on labour regimes and the management of migrant labour through cases from the German meat industry.

After a coffee break with continued fruitful discussions and fresh fruits, @norakuettel.bsky.social presents her research plans and preliminary insights on labor, gender and memory in the context of transformation processes in East and West German shipyards.

The first session of the day concluded with fascinating insights from @hanchu0322.bsky.social on firm-cluster-network reorganisation using the example of e-commerce platforms in several clusters of the furniture industry in China.

Next, Lisa Deutschmann shares her inspiring thoughts on the role of stakeholders and institutions in Bremen's hydrogen transformation.

After a cheerful dinner last night, Daniel Schiller opens the day and sets the scene for the Colloquium and @max-roessler.bsky.social kicks off with the first presentation on local agency in peripheral regions.