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.

Group photo with Agelika Krehl at the conference
Acceleration at any price?

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

Image of a computer screen with a presentation.
3rd meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board

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

Impressions from the "UniCity" networking event
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.

The NIERS team at this year's "Run and Fun" 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 Dr Olena Provolotska
New employee at NIERS

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

Opening of the event by Minister Brandes from MKW and sub-department head Mrs Keppler
Successful start

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

Title page of the lecture
Lecture as part of the Campus Week

Lecture for students during the campus week

View of the presentation which is projected onto the wall.
NIERS at the open day

Lecture at the open day at The Hochschule Niederrhein

Visit from colleagues from Karazin Business School.
Workshop with the Karazin Business School

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

Group photo of all participants of Girls Day 2024
Girls Day 2024

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

All logos from the AUFBRUCH graduate cluster project
Start of the AUFBRUCH graduate cluster project

Start of the new BMBF-funded project

Photo of the new colleague Ebru Sarikaya
New colleague at NIERS

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

Angelika Krehl presents at Regional political awakening in NRW
Regional political awakening in NRW

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

Logo of the R3 project
Transfer advisory board in the R³ project

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

Title slide lecture series
R³ Guest lecture at lecture series

Guest lecture at lecture series in the digital room

Cover picture of the presentation for the article Sustainable learning through teaching education and research project at The Hochschule Niederrhein.
Sustainable learning

Publication of the article "Sustainable learning through a teaching and research project at The Hochschule Niederrhein."

The logo of the R3 project
Scientific advisory board for the R³ project

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

Banner for the student survey. A QR code that leads to the survey.
Entrepreneurship" student survey

Call for a student survey on the topic of "Founding".

Visit to the Ministry of Economic Development
New co-operations

Visit from Department 5 - Economic Development

The logo of the R3 project
Rheinische Post reports on R³

The Rheinische Post reports on the NIERS R³

Angelika Krehl and Christina Masch in front of the DKG '23 exhibition centre in Frankfurt/Main
Participation in DKG '23 in Frankfurt/Main

Angelika Krehl and Christina Masch take part in the 62nd German Congress of Geography

Angelika Krehl and Anna Herzog represent NIERS in the "REGION.innovativ" funding programme.
Status conference "Region.Innovative"

Status conference of the BMBF funding programme "Researching regional factors for innovation and change - strengthening social innovation capacity" as…

Angelika Krehl and Anna Herzog in front of the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland
Presentation at the EURA Conference 2023

Angelika Krehl and Anna Herzog took part in this year's European Urban Research Association (EURA) conference.

Graphic summary of the advisory board meeting using graphic recording by Thinking Visual (Katrina Günther).
Transfer advisory board in the R³ project

On 14 June 2023, the first meeting of the transfer advisory board in the project "R³ - Regional. Responsibility, Resonance: Innovations through CRR"…

Scientific advisory board for the R³ project

On 03 May 2023, the first meeting of the scientific advisory board in the project "R³ - Regional. Responsibility. Resonance: Innovations through CRR"…

TransLOek closing event

On 9 March 2023 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., the final event of the TransLOek project on the topic of "Economic sidelines in functional change" took place…

Competence centre TransLOek - 9th meeting

The ninth and final meeting of the Competence Network Local Economy on the Lower Rhine took place on 31 January 2023 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Successful promotion at NIERS by Anna Herzog
Successful promotion at NIERS

NIERS employee Anna Herzog successfully completed her doctorate on 2 November 2022 with her dissertation on "Development paths and structural change…

8th meeting of the TransLOek competence centre

On 4 October 2022 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., the 8th meeting of the competence centre Local Economy on the Lower Rhine will take place on the topic of…

19th Regional Economic Forum & BIWAQ Workshop

The 19th NIERS Regional Economic Forum will take place in Krefeld on 21/22 June 2022.

7th meeting of the TransLOek competence centre

Event organised by the TransLOek competence centre

5th Innovation Forum: "Healthy buildings"

As part of the "euregio campus - Limburg/Lower Rhine" project, we are organising the 5th Innovation Forum on the topic of "Euregio rhine-meuse-north…

6th meeting of the TransLOek competence centre

On 15 March 2022, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., the 6th meeting of the competence centre Local Economy on the Lower Rhine will take place on the topic of…

euregio campus promotes the border region with videos

As part of the Interreg project "euregio campus Limburg/Lower Rhine", seven short films were made about the university locations Mönchengladbach,…

3rd meeting of the TransLOek Scientific Advisory Board

On 20 April, the TransLOek project activities to date were presented to representatives from universities and colleges in NRW, Hesse, Thuringia and…

2nd Innovation Forum - Rethinking the Textile Industry

On 11 May 2021 from 17:00 to 18:30, the 2nd Innovation Forum on "Rethinking the Textile Industry - Shaping the Future" will take place as part of the…

1st Cleverland Innovation Forum

project "euregio campus - Limburg/Lower Rhine" is organising an event.

3rd meeting of the TransLOek competence centre

Gerrit Heinemann, professor of retail at The Hochschule Niederrhein and e-commerce specialist, gave a lecture on "Survival strategies for the retail…

Sticker campaign: "5 stars for your purchase"

The project "BIWAQ IV - Sub-project: Südstadthandel 2.0 Strengthening local strengths, initiating new ideas" supports the sticker campaign "5 stars…

Cleverland project develops company database

INTERREG project "euregio campus Limburg/Lower Rhine"

2nd meeting of the TransLOek Scientific Advisory Board

Meeting with representatives from universities and colleges in NRW, Hesse and Thuringia.

2nd meeting of the competence centre Local Economy

"TransLoek" project: On 8 October 2020, the 2nd meeting of the competence centre for the local economy on the Lower Rhine took place, this time on the…

#aufgetischt - Business start-up for women

As part of the BIWAQ IV project in the south and city centre of Viersen, an exchange on all aspects of starting a business will take place on 17…

Best doctorate in the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

The former NIERS employee Dr phil. Katja Keggenhoff was distinguished for her doctorate by the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics in the…

Roundtables "Work and companies in the border region"

As part of "Cleverland", four digital networking events will take place on 16 and 17 September 2020 in the form of roundtables on the topic of "Work…

Presentation at the ERSA Web Conference 2020

Prof Dr Rüdiger Hamm and Anna Herzog presented at this year's ERSA conference.

2. survey of companies in the local economy

The "TransLOek" project conducted a survey of companies.

Survey on the university and its students

Population surveys were conducted in the cities of Krefeld, Mönchengladbach and Venlo in spring and autumn 2019 as part of the "euregio campus…

BIWAQ 4 Viersen - Social, Local, Digital: Südstadt 2.0

As part of the "Education, Economy, Work in the Neighbourhood" programme, structurally weak neighbourhoods are supported in activities aimed at labour…

17th Regional Economic Forum

The 17th Regional Economic Forum on "Integrated municipal reporting - why, how and for whom" took place on 9 June 2020.

Launch of the "Cleverland - The Knowledge Region" campaign

The campaign starts!

1st (virtual) meeting of the TransLOek Scientific Advisory Board

The first meeting with the scientific advisory board for the TransLOek project took place on 12 May 2020 - in digital form due to coronavirus.

Uncertainty in the local economy

Uncertainty due to corona

Joint research project between the HSNR and Fontys

The Hochschule Niederrhein and Fontys International Business School students are carrying out a joint research project as part of two courses as part…

NRW.dialogue.BENELUX: Presentation of the "euregio campus" project

Goal and presentation of the "euregio campus" project.

Visit to the 59th ERSA Congress in Lyon (France)

The 59th ERSA conference took place in Lyon, France, from 27 to 30 August 2019.

Internship with the City of Mönchengladbach

We are looking for someone for an internship!

BVMW business breakfast: "Brain drain on the Lower Rhine?"

"Brain drain on the Lower Rhine - are the academics running away? Insights and viewpoints for the Lower Rhine as a business location"

Summer Academy on the topic of "Local Economic Development"

Mesopartner Summer Academy in Berlin on the topic of LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Kick-off "euregio campus Limburg/Lower Rhine"

INVITATION to our kick-off event

Lecture at the 95th Federal Deans' Conference

"The importance of (the) university(ies) for regional development"

NIERS: Research for the region

Our cooperation with the DUZ publishing house

International workshop on "Rethinking Clusters"

Participation in the international workshop in Padua

Journées de Franchise" round table

Discussion round of the "Journées de Franchise" event

"euregio campus - Limburg/Lower Rhine"

With its university locations in Venlo, Mönchengladbach and Krefeld, the euregio rhine-meuse-north has a high-performance tertiary education…

Group picture of the participants
Visit to the 58th ERSA Congress in Cork (Ireland)

The 58th ERSA conference took place in Cork Ireland from 28 to 31 August 2018.

Consulting
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