1 year TransRegINT

Our goal is to help shape the Lower Rhine region sustainably through exchange, applied research, pilot projects and building expertise. Within our first year, we have hired over 20 employees, launched research projects, realised initial collaborations in the region and held events.

Strong team united for the Lower Rhine

Above all, our TransRegINT team has grown enormously over the past year. We now have 37 people in our ranks – and the trend is rising. Half of the TransRegINT team works on transformation projects: Here, research is carried out on future topics in order to develop science-based solutions for the Lower Rhine of tomorrow. The TransRegINT team now consists of people from diverse backgrounds – both professionally and personally. What is particularly exciting for our project is that not everyone comes from the Lower Rhine, which makes the perspectives on the region all the more diverse.

Three highlight events in the first year

TransRegINT was officially launched on 1 March 2023. Two months later, with the first colleagues on board, the kick-off event took place at Schloss Moyland. The next event highlights followed in September and October: the Klever Birne and the ZukunftsLab Niederrhein 2023. The Klever Birne, an ideas competition for sustainability in and around Kleve, generated more than 20 applications. On 14 September 2023, four different ideas were honoured that were able to prevail in front of the jury and the audience, including a training farm initiated by citizens and a climate café. ZukunftsLab Niederrhein 2023 also aimed to develop creative solutions for current challenges in the Lower Rhine region. Partners and stakeholders from the region as well as from science, politics, business and society came together for this purpose. The results of the first ZukunftsLab Niederrhein are still bearing fruit: individual ideas and concepts are being collated and pursued further as part of TransRegINT.

Cooperation with practice partners and students

Partnerships with local stakeholders are key to driving sustainable change in the Lower Rhine region. We are constantly expanding our network and new discussions, exchange events and collaborations are taking place in the individual transformation projects. For example, the LabLandscapes team organises company evenings. Our agroforestry living lab team initiates workshops with farmers to launch partnerships in the region. Students are also involved, for example in an interdisciplinary project to build a fuel cell as part of the Hydrogen on the Lower Rhine project. We have also laid the first foundations for the Transformation Academy in order to anchor the project results in the long term and share knowledge. To this end, we are working closely with guest professors.

We are looking forward to the new TransRegINT year, in which we will expand existing partnerships, initiate new projects and drive the sustainable transformation of the Lower Rhine forward together!

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