The R(h)einTex research project – Recycling through Innovation in the Textile Industry in the Lower Rhine region – hosted its fifth meeting for…

The research project “R³ – Regional.Responsibility.Resonance: Innovation through Corporate Regional Responsibility”, funded by the Federal Ministry of…

“Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for textiles in Germany”

From 19 to 22 May 2026, the European Biomass Conference & Exhibition (EUBCE) took place in The Hague, where NIERS was represented by Florian Grebe.

Academic staff (f/m/d) in the "RediStar" project at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

NIERS is pleased to announce a publication in Research in International Business and Finance.

Professor Dr Angelika Krehl was a guest on the podcast "Kaffeepause" by Prof. Dr habil. Jürgen Karla and talks about the work of the NIERS -…

The winter seminar of the Society for Regional Research took place in Innsbruck from 17 to 21 February 2026, at which NIERS was represented by Florian…

On 20 February 2026, NIERS was represented at the ERDF/JTF Conference 2026 at the Zeche Zollverein in Essen.

To kick off the year, the R(h)einTex - Recycling through innovation in the textile industry in the Lower Rhine region research project invited…

Academic staff (f/m/d) at the Niederrhein Institute for Regional and Structural Research (NIERS)

The NIERS - Niederrhein Institute for Regional and Structural Research (NIERS) is now also active on LinkedIn.

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

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

RediStar at the Future Tech Fest!

How can we live together successfully in a diverse city?

Participation in the SoilCarbon4Climate conference.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The next phase of the Redistar project begins.

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

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

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

Deadline for Call for Abstracts extended!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lecture for students during the campus week

Lecture at the open day at The Hochschule Niederrhein

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

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

Start of the new BMBF-funded project

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

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

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

Guest lecture at lecture series in the digital room

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

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

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

Visit from Department 5 - Economic Development

The Rheinische Post reports on the NIERS R³

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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.

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

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…

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

Event organised by the TransLOek competence centre

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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

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

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

INTERREG project "euregio campus Limburg/Lower Rhine"

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

"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…

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…

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

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…

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

The "TransLOek" project conducted a survey of companies.

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

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

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

The campaign starts!

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 due to corona

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

Goal and presentation of the "euregio campus" project.

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

We are looking for someone for an internship!

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

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

INVITATION to our kick-off event

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

Our cooperation with the DUZ publishing house

Participation in the international workshop in Padua

Discussion round of the "Journées de Franchise" event

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

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