Take a trip to the future in Oberhausen

We’d be glad to help! We have various projects and suitable consultation services that could bring you further. For implementation purposes, various tools (including subsidies) and efficient networks are available. In this way new products are created and services and marketing concepts drawn up that make your company more efficient and more effective.

Green​tech​.Ruhr is a cooperation of innovative companies, research and training institutes and various public facilities within the field of environmental economics. Together they offer extensive solutions for environmental protection and resource efficiency, and also upgrade former derelict land to create new space for living, working and recreation.

Green​tech​.Ruhr has two central tasks. On the one hand it markets the strength of the region and partners in Germany, Europe and across the world. For this purpose, various marketing tools are used such as online and offline advertising, participation in fairs and company trips as well as the use of modern communication platforms.

On the other hand, the marketing activities of the partners are channelled into new marketing strategies via workshops and individual consultation. This service is offered in particular to small and medium-sized companies. The project also supports such companies at fairs and on company trips.

The project is a EU EFRE Regio​.NRW project with a run time of three years. Its partners are the business development agencies of Oberhausen, Essen, Recklinghausen district, Bottrop and the Ruhr metropolis. Small and medium-sized companies are focused on from selected submarkets active in environmental economics.

Your contact:
Peter Engels
Tel.: 0208/85036-12
peter.engels@owtgmbh.de

Companies in commercial zones have various possibilities for using resources in more economical ways, especially if synergies are taken advantage of. As a consequence the wmr has initiated the project “Resource-efficient commercial areas”. Savings potential should be commonly identified and specific cross-company measures developed and implemented in ten commercial areas of the Ruhr metropolis. The aim is to develop existing commercial areas into modern, future-capable locations for business with the use of economically feasible models.

Attractive business zones contribute to the positive image of a company, and the more cost-efficient use of resources increases their competitive capacity. Costs can be saved in various disciplines. The project initially concentrates on the levers of waste, floor area, water and energy.

A special feature of the project is the intensive exchange of experience between participating district authorities, consultants and area managers to derive recommendations for action for the national districts and their implementation concepts. The project is a EU EFRE Regio​.NRW project with a duration of three years.

Partners:
Business development agencies from Oberhausen, Gelsenkirchen, Mülheim, Recklinghausen district, Ennepe-Ruhr, Essen, Bochum, Dortmund and the Ruhr metropolis

Your contact:
Martin Hinzmann
Tel.: 0208/85036-28
martin.hinzmann@owtgmbh.de

The joint campaign for MINT young professionals

Zukunft durch Inno​va​ti​on​.NRW [Future via Innovation] is a joint campaign for supporting young science and technology professionals in North Rhine Westphalia.

A total of 44 zdi networks are active throughout North Rhine Westphalia with a range of services for children and young people in companies, research institutes and other locations for learning outside of school and colleges. The campaign aims to make the MINT area (MINT = maths, information technology, science and technology) more familiar to young people via discovery-based learning.

Two of these networks are located in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Bottrop. Technical expertise is brought together with a proximity to business via a connection of the zdi networks to the Ruhr West University and the Mülheim an der Ruhr, Bottrop and Oberhausen business agencies. The OWT actively participates and integrates local companies.

The aims:

• Winning more young people for MINT studies or MINT training
• Thereby: long-term safeguarding of MINT young professionals at the regional level
• An early familiarisation of young people to socially relevant topics via MINT access channels, e.g. themes of resource protection, climate transformation, energy supply and fighting poverty
• Supporting the talents of as many young people as possible to contribute to educational equality and transparency in the educational system

A strong network consisting of business, university and educational representatives and cooperation with the Mülheim and Bottrop zdi centres positively contributes to ensuring specialists for the business sector. The OWT is an efficient partner, and together with the zdi, develops various campaigns to bring together pupils and companies.

Your contact:
Peter Engels
Tel.: 0208/85036-12
peter.engels@owtgmbh.de

Increasing numbers of companies see themselves no longer merely as a service provider for their customers. The company management recognises how important it is to develop an employee-friendly corporate culture and also to enact this.

An essential factor of success here is to enable a balance between profession and family for employees. This form of compatibility not only means unison between work and raising children though, but increasingly a compatibility of the vocation with the care of family members.

With the competition “Exemplary family-friendly companies in Oberhausen”, companies in Oberhausen are distinguished once a year that help achieve an improved balance of family and the world of work, within their possibilities. Accordingly, the solutions in small family-owned companies are different to those of a large company. Their ideas and concepts should motivate other companies to do the same and display to them paths and methods for achieving an enacted affinity to family values. The competition, within the framework of the Oberhausen Family Alliance, helps to further expand a family-friendly atmosphere in the town of Oberhausen. The department for equal opportunities of Oberhausen organises this competition in cooperation with the Oberhausen Economic and Tourism Development Agency. Cooperation partners are the Kreishandwerkerschaft, IHK, NRW Regionalagentur MEO e.V., the DGB union, the labour exchange and the association of companies.

Competition criteria include support for employees with regard to the compatibility of child supervision and the care of family members. Flexibility for work, break and vacation times, regulation of the work location, paths of information and communication within the company, management expertise and personnel development, service for families and family-supportive services (child supervision etc.), workplace health promotion, occupational safety and health protection, wage components and non-money services, work atmosphere etc.

Your contact:
Martin Hinzmann
Tel.: 0208/85036-28
martin.hinzmann@owtgmbh.de

Know what’s happening…

…from Oberhausen, about Oberhausen and for Oberhausen: “Oh!” has been delivered since March 2013 as a printed magazine to the letterboxes of all Oberhausen households free and every two months – also online at www​.oh​-stadt​ma​ga​zin​.de, and with the latest photos and news.

The Oberhausen Economic and Tourism Development Agency and the town of Oberhausen as the publishers of “Oh!” relate about things worth knowing and important aspects of town life. The Oh! team consists of experienced journalists, photographers and designers that know their town inside-out, that live and/or work in Oberhausen and that have a lot of fun creating and inspiring with “Oh!”. The CONTACT agency is at the same time a main contributor and supporter of the editorial staff, as well as taking care of design and marketing.

The aim is to give you as wide a view as possible of topics ranging from management, business, environment and culture to sport, social aspects, health and public life. Also: recreation tips, portraits, reports, service and a detailed calendar of events.

Your contact:
Helmut Kawohl
Tel. 0208 85036-33
helmut.kawohl@owtgmbh.de

With submission of the so-called market reconnaissance process in September 2014 by OWT GmbH (at that time still WFO – Wirtschaftsförderung Oberhausen GmbH), the town of Oberhausen was an early exponent of quickly enhancing the municipal district with rapid internet.

In response to the market reconnaissance, Deutsche Telekom declared its readiness in November to supply 97% of the urban district with at least 50 MB, at its own cost and in accordance with the so-called vectoring process. This expansion process was completed in May 2017.

Simultaneously, the business areas of Oberhausen were supplied by 1&1/Versatel with glass-fibre connections so that companies also have requisite broadband coverage. Technical solution options should be identified in 2017 for the residual 3% (“white spots”) to also supply these areas with rapid internet.

Your contact:
Klaus Lerch
Tel. 0208 8503-714
klaus.lerch@owtgmbh.de