City of Aachen / Gwanaëlle Ladwig
With companies, with universities, with citizens - together for Aachen! The City of Aachen is developing the business and science location in cooperation with numerous stakeholders. A wide range of topics contribute to promoting Aachen as a pioneering laboratory for the future and a top location for start-ups and companies.
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Business location
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The economy also benefits from Aachen as a research and development location and its excellent teaching: knowledge-based, economic activity - this is a hallmark of the high-tech region of Aachen. World market leaders, innovative start-ups and excellent research institutions work side by side here. Knowledge becomes business. Aachen is a start-up city. Around 100 spin-offs are created here every year!
Statistics and figures
Aachen impresses as a business location with strong figures: A dynamic corporate landscape, high start-up activity and excellent educational institutions characterize the region. Detailed economic data, population and university statistics provide valuable insights into Aachen's innovative strength and future viability.
Locations in Aachen
Aachen offers companies the right environment for growth and innovation. Whether Rothe Erde as a model location for urban production, Aachen-Nord as a hotspot for future-oriented industries or intermunicipal commercial areas with optimal connections - here, every idea finds the right space to develop.
Infrastructure and innovation
Aachen is building on innovation. A sustainable digital infrastructure and intelligent energy management in industrial estates are paving the way for the smart city. The location's core competencies include the development of innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence and hydrogen ramp-up.
Retail and gastronomy
City centers are meeting places. Retail and gastronomy are central factors for the quality of stay. In addition to a good mix of usage options and experiences such as events, they remain indispensable as points of attraction for a liveable city of Aachen.
Science location
City of Aachen / Wilhelm Leisten-Lorent
Aachen is thinking about the future: with seven universities, excellent research and over 60,000 students, this is one of the most exciting science regions in Europe. Where science can be experienced, innovations, future technologies and real added value are created - internationally visible and regionally effective.
Aachen in the region and in Europe
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Aachen offers companies limitless opportunities: Close economic cooperation with Belgium and the Netherlands opens up expanded markets, international networks and joint innovation projects. Actively shaping structural change also creates new opportunities in key sectors such as energy, digitalization and sustainable industry. The region's economic dynamism offers ideal conditions for growth and development.
Support for companies & start-ups
Projects & networks
Care for sustainable Innovation (CSI)
Care for sustainable innovation is an innovation project for the digital and sustainable transformation of the healthcare industry in the Aachen region. Together with universities, companies and start-ups, an ecosystem for pioneering ideas and marketable solutions is being created.
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Battery Circle
The Battery Circle Aachen brings together eight innovative companies - from start-ups to established players - with the support of the City of Aachen and RWTH Innovation. Our mission: to rethink battery technology, drive forward the energy transition and develop sustainable solutions for an environmentally friendly future. Together, we are setting new standards in research, production and recycling along the entire value chain.
Uam
Aachen is taking off: together with a strong network of experts and in close cooperation with other model regions, we are developing the air mobility of tomorrow. Drones and air cabs will overcome borders, shorten distances and improve medical care - as a sustainable model region for a networked Europe.
Industry dialog
The Aachen Industry Dialogue is a voluntary initiative for regional industrial companies and industry-related trade and service companies. Through networking and cooperation, they strengthen economic development and the labor market in the region. Find out more about the free network and join in: www.aachen-industriedialog.de."
Regina
As a member of REGINA e.V., Wirtschaftsförderung Aachen is actively shaping the digital transformation. Together with innovative minds from the worlds of business and science, new ideas, smart technologies and digital impulses are being created here that will advance the region in a sustainable and future-proof way.
MedLife
Strengthening the life sciences sector in the Aachen region requires close networking and targeted knowledge transfer. As a competence network for the life sciences sector, MedLife e.V. promotes the exchange between science, industry and medical technology and thus creates the basis for innovation and technological progress. As a member, the Aachen Economic Development Agency actively supports the further development of the life sciences sector in Aachen.
Project E6
The E6 project (Ecosystems for Extended Lifetime of End-of-Use Electrical and Electronic Equipment), which is co-financed by the European innovation funding program North West Europe, aims to create structures in which disused electrical appliances can be repaired and reused. In addition to promoting repair cafés, the E6 project aims to establish value chains in such a way that electrical appliances can be used for longer in future or passed on via second-hand stores. For a sustainable circular economy!