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Florian Grebe for NIERS at the international BioSC Symposium
NIERS at the international BioSC Symposium

On 24 and 25 November 2025, the international BioSC Symposium took place in Bonn, at which NIERS was represented by Florian Grebe.

A digital group photo from the workshop on 3.11. with representatives of the public start-up advice service; a group photo from the workshop with representatives of migrant organisations at the VKI on 18.11.; making needs & opportunities visible and openly exchanging ideas, flipcharts created in the workshops.
RediStar autumn update

The first RediStar workshops as part of the needs assessment took place in November and brought many new points to light.

Interested in our workshop "Sustainable management: How can it work?"
Sustainable management: Workshop during the campus week

During this semester's Campus Week at The Hochschule Niederrhein, NIERS was represented with a workshop entitled "Sustainable management: How can it…

Get a taste of the future at the Future Tech Fest on 11 September 2025 in Düsseldorf.
RediStar meets the future: exchange and ideas at the Future Tech Fest in Düsseldorf

RediStar at the Future Tech Fest!

Big changes happen in small steps - big changes happen through many small steps - how important it is to pull together was the attitude of the approximately 130 participants at the Krefeld Integration Conference.
Shaping integration together - Redistar at the 4th Krefeld Integration Conference

How can we live together successfully in a diverse city?

Florian Grebe in front of a poster at the SoilCarbon4Climate conference.
SoilCarbon4Climate Conference

Participation in the SoilCarbon4Climate conference.

NIERS at the 18th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in Bonn.
NIERS at the 18th EAAE Congress

NIERS at the 18th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in Bonn.

Florian Grebe in front of a poster at the European Regional Science Association.
Participation in the 64th ERSA Congress

Florian Grebe took part in the 64th annual congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) in Athens.

The hybrid transfer advisory board of the Redistar project
First RediStar project advisory board

The first meeting of the project advisory board took place on 19 August as part of our Redistar project.

In the photo (from left): Fabian Mertens (SO.CON), Saskia Griffig (SO.CON), Florian Grebe (NIERS), Jacqueline Amend (NIERS)
NIERS at the Move-and-Groove run

The NIERS team attended this year's Move and Groove run on 14 June 2025 in Mönchengladbach with great enthusiasm.

Group picture of the participants of the GfR Summer Conference.
NIERS at the GfR Conference 2025

Participation in the 15th Summer Conference of the Society for Regional Research in Krefeld.

Composition of two images. A room full of people who have come together for the meeting.
R(h)einTex regulars' table in third round

Textile recycling round table on the Lower Rhine: third round with plenty of room for open dialogue

Group picture of the Verbundentreff at SO.CON
Successful meeting at RediStar

At the beginning of June, NIERS and SO.CON met with a network partner (migrafrica) for the RediStar project in Mönchengladbach.

In the photo (from left): Maximilian Hummel (GEMIT), Florian Grebe (NIERS), Aleksandr Lobanov (ILOC)
First AUFBRUCH spring symposium

Florian Grebe took part in the first public AUFBRUCH spring symposium.

First Rheintex logo. Figures sitting together in a circle.
2nd R(h)einTex regulars' table

After a successful kick-off event: textile recycling get-together on the Lower Rhine enters its second round

Group photo of the practice partners of the network
Successful project kick-off

The next phase of the Redistar project begins.

Group picture of the members of Entrepreneurship and Bioeconomy
Entrepreneurship and bioeconomy

Exchange of doctoral students from the graduate cluster with a non-technical specialisation

The RediStar team was represented by Ebru Sarikaya and Christine Manthei at this inspiring event.
Successful networking at RediStar

We are delighted that our RediStar team, represented by Ebru Sarikaya and Christine Manthei, attended this inspiring event.

TitlePicture of the lecture at the GfR Winter Seminar.
The NIERS at the GfR Winter Seminar

Florian Grebe was represented at this year's winter seminar of the Society for Regional Science (GfR).

The NIERS logo
GfR Summer Conference 2025 at NIERS

Deadline for Call for Abstracts extended!

Cover picture of the presentation from the Social Management Congress
Specialist congress for social management

Participation in the 9th conference of the international working group for social management/social economy.

Logo of the R3 project
3rd meeting of the Transfer Advisory Board R³

The Transfer Advisory Board met for the third time on 28 January 2025.

Jewellery element - distance

News archive 2024

NIERS at the international BioSC Symposium

On 24 and 25 November 2025, the international BioSC Symposium took place in Bonn, at which NIERS was represented by Florian Grebe.

RediStar autumn update

The first RediStar workshops as part of the needs assessment took place in November and brought many new points to light.

Acceleration at any price?

Panel discussion at the structural change conference of the German lignite mining regions.

3rd meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board

The scientific advisory board of the R³ project met for the third time on 25 November 2024.

UniCity" networking event

As part of the Erasmus+ project ENDORSE, the networking event "UniCity" took place on 7 November 2024 in the NEW-Blauhaus in Mönchengladbach.

NIERS at the Run & Fun in Mönchengladbach

The NIERS team attended this year's "Run and Fun" in Mönchengladbach with great enthusiasm.

New employee at NIERS

We are delighted to welcome Dr Olena Provolotska as a new colleague at NIERS.

Successful start

The kick-off event for the graduate cluster AUFBRUCH took place in Düren on 2 July 2024.

Lecture as part of the Campus Week

Lecture for students during the campus week

NIERS at the open day

Lecture at the open day at The Hochschule Niederrhein

Workshop with the Karazin Business School

On 24 April, a workshop with colleagues from Karazin Business School (Kharkiv, Ukraine) took place together with HNX.

Girls Day 2024

The annual Girls' Day took place on Thursday, 25 April 2024.

Start of the AUFBRUCH graduate cluster project

Start of the new BMBF-funded project

New colleague at NIERS

We are delighted to welcome Ebru Sarikaya as a new colleague at NIERS.

Regional political awakening in NRW

On 6 March 2024, Prof. Dr Angelika Krehl gave a keynote speech on the topic of "Spaces need innovation.

Transfer advisory board in the R³ project

The transfer advisory board of the R³ project took place for the second time.

R³ Guest lecture at lecture series

Guest lecture at lecture series in the digital room

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