Rheinisches Revier is already one of Germany's most important production centers. Nearly 100,000 people work in the energy-intensive industry sectors. To ensure that this number continues to grow, we’re providing research synergies, investment incentives and top infrastructure. And we’re making sure that international companies feel just as comfortable here as they do at home.
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Strong arguments for your investment in Rheinisches Revier
Versatile areas, extensive funding and new partners: Investments in Rheinisches Revier pay off in many ways.
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Win-win for your investment and Rheinisches Revier
Rheinisches Revier is located in the heart of Europe and its transformation is one of Germany's pivotal projects for the future. What's more, its path to becoming the continent's first climate-neutral industrial location has the potential to set an international benchmark. This is precisely why companies from all over the world are being invited to participate in the transformation. The list of arguments for investing in Rheinisches Revier is long. You can find the compact version here.
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#1 Extensive funding
The transformation of Rheinisches Revier is a key political project. This is why the federal government, and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have set up a 14.8 billion euro transformation budget. Extensive funding programs provide targeted incentives for companies to relocate here.
STARK
The federal STARK program promotes investments and relocations that enable the transition to a climate-neutral economy.
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This program promotes the settlement, investment and expansion of companies that manufacture critical technologies.
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The RWP offers funding in particular for investments that create permanent jobs or accelerate the transformation.
Find out more #2 Versatile areas
Whether brownfield or greenfield, office or large-scale settlement, your investment projects will have the space they need in Rheinisches Revier. A wide variety of sites in prime locations have already been created around the recultivated open-cast mining areas. Areas that NRW.Global Business profiles and markets for you.
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Frimmersdorf power station
In the immediate vicinity of two Microsoft hyperscale data centers, an old power plant is being transformed into a state-of-the-art digital park.
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FUTURE SITE InWEST
FUTURE SITE InWEST offers large-scale industrial projects not only 240 hectares of space, but also proximity to Europe's most important seaports.
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Brainergy Park Jülich
The Brainergy Park brings together established companies, start-ups, energy suppliers and science. In the sustainable real-world laboratory, they will develop technologies for the energy system of the future.
#3 economic environment
No term describes the economic role of Rheinisches Revier more aptly than “powerhouse”. The region is the energy hub of industry, an important production location and now also setting the pace for all those who want to future-proof their economy with new sectors. The advantages at a glance.
As the energy center of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rheinisches Revier offers industry globally unparalleled security of electricity supply. And this will not change, since we’re investing heavily in the expansion of wind power and photovoltaics. We’re also well on the way to becoming a European hydrogen hub, from which industry and mobility will benefit in a sustainable way.
"North Rhine-Westphalia is taking the path from coal to AI", says the state’s Minister President Hendrik Wüst. This is also due to Rheinisches Revier being the ideal location for data infrastructures, so crucial for AI and cloud computing. Major investments by global companies, cutting-edge international research and promising digital projects demonstrate that a dynamic hub for digital technologies is emerging on the doorstep of the tech centers of Cologne and Düsseldorf.
#4 Application-oriented science
The boundaries between science and growth are traditionally fluid in Rheinisches Revier. This is because internationally renowned institutions have always maintained a close exchange with companies here. In this way, cutting-edge research for innovative technologies finds its way directly into practical application. That makes investing in the transformation of the region promote your own future viability.
Science that creates business: Discover the practical research environment in Rheinisches Revier!
It is not just the nearby cities of Düsseldorf and Cologne that are known for cutting-edge research. There are also internationally renowned institutions in Rheinisches Revier itself.
As one of Germany's universities of excellence, RWTH Aachen University is in demand internationally – as shown by various rankings. On the campus of the technical university, specialized institutes cooperate with leading industrial companies. They develop pioneering solutions in areas such as production technology, sustainable energy and mobility.
14,000 students, ten faculties, 19 institutes and four competence platforms make FH Aachen one of the most important German universities of applied sciences. Research focuses include life sciences, mobility, the digital transformation of industry as well as energy and sustainable construction.
Europe's largest organization for applied research sees itself as a “supplier of innovation for industry and society”. It is represented several times in Rheinisches Revier and neighboring cities, for example with the Fraunhofer Institutes for Production Technology (IPT), for Laser Technology (ILT) in Aachen and for Scientific-Technical Trend Analysis (INT) in Euskirchen.
With over 7,000 employees, FZJ is one of the largest interdisciplinary research institutions in Europe and an indispensable partner for SMEs and large companies alike. 14 institutes work on future technologies in the fields of energy, bioeconomy and information. A campus highlight is the Jülich Supercomputing Center.
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