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Project
Lead partner Hochschule Niederrhein
- Niederrhein Institut für Regional‐ und Strukturforschung (NIERS)
Project partner
- Fontys International Business School in Venlo
- Municipality of Venlo
- Municipality of Mönchengladbach
- WFMG -Wirtschaftsförderung Mönchengladbach GmbH
- Municipality of Krefeld
- WFG Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Krefeld mbH
Duration 01/2019 -12/2021
Project goals
AWARENESS: The perception of the Euregion Rhine-Meuse-North as an attractive study location for students from Germany, the Netherlands and other countries should be strengthened.
COOPERATE: The advantages of studying in a border region should be identified, developed and communicated. The advantages include a cross-border exchange, learning additional language skills and the experience of and dealing with intercultural differences. A precondition for realising these opportunities is intensive cooperation between colleges on both sides of the border.
CONNECT: The attractiveness and perception of the Euregion as a possible job market and place of residence for graduates should be increased. Especially, it is important that the mutual experience of competences and needs between students / graduates and regional SMEs is promoted. This contributes to securing skilled workers in the region in the medium and long term.
Measures
The project aims to achieve its goals by working on three sets of measures:
- Common marketing concept for the euregio campus knowledge region: The conception and implementation of a common marketing concept for the Euregion Rhine-Meuse-North knowledge region.
- Intensification of cooperation between colleges: The development into a cross-border area of knowledge should also be initiated and promoted by a continuously increasing cooperation between the Euregional colleges in the area of education. Various forms of cooperation are being developed and tested step by step – from cross-border exchange of students and teachers to the preparation and implementation of cross-border study programs with double degrees.
- Reduce brain drain, generate brain gain: Studies show: The Euregion Rhine- Meuse-North is affected by an (academic) brain drain – i.e. (too) many graduates from the two major Euregional colleges tend to leave the region when looking for a first job. In cooperation with cross-border institutions, measures are to be developed and implemented that counteract this brain drain.
About us
A Euregional team, consisting of employees from the various institutions involved in the project, is working on the “euregio campus-Limburg / Niederrhein” project. In addition to project management and project assistance, the employees work primarily in one of the three work areas:
- Marketing
- College cooperation
- Brain flows
The project employees are supported by expert groups in the three areas.
- Expert group “Marketing”: Marketing Gesellschaft Mönchengladbach mbH, city marketing of the municipality of Krefeld, Venlo Partners, Niederrhein GmbH location, marketing of Fontys Venlo and Hochschule Niederrhein
- Expert group “College cooperation”: deans and degree program coordinators of the Euregional colleges
- Expert group “Brain Flows”: IHK Middle Lower Rhine, WFG Krefeld, WFMG Mönchengladbach, WFG District Viersen, Municipality of Venlo
Partners
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