5-arealsprogramm

Land development

As a polycentric conurbation the Metropole Ruhr suffers from a considerable shortage of space. However, economic growth requires commercial and industrial areals. These must be developed primarily on brownfield sites in order to meet climate protection and sustainability goals. But brownfield sites in particular are often contaminated or poorly developed. Their development costs are then so high that they are not marketable. In order to close the delta at a marketable price, the affected municipalities need financial support. The project office supports by screening specific areas and developing conversion potentials.

Mobility & Infrastructure

Without an effort to create a sustainable mobility system, the Metropole Ruhr will not be able to exploit its current and future potential for more growth. For this reason, the project office supports local authorities in developing concepts together with partners which realise goods and passenger mobility in such a way that distances are shorter and places can be reached more quickly. In doing so, the economies of scale offered by digitisation are to be used to the best possible extent.

Energy & climate protection

For 200 years the economic success of the Metropole Ruhr was dependent on the availability of hard coal as a source of energy and the energy-intensive industries that settled here as a result. An initial wave ofstructural change has resulted in the creation of a more resilient economic structure through the targeted establishment of a vital university and higher education landscape and a targeted diversification of the economy, which has nevertheless retained an efficient industrial core. The Ruhr Area's world-leading know-how in technical environmental protection has also contributed to this. The project office would like to push ahead with projects that build on this. The challenge of making the industrial core a global leader in resource efficiency and digitalisation is an opportunity for the Ruhr Metropolis. It can establish itself, as in technical environmental protection, as a pioneer in research and development and new production processes.

Innovation & Education

The successes achieved so far in the transformation of the Metropole Ruhr have shown that it can only be achieved by the consistent expansion of excellent education and training opportunities as well as research and development that is both broad-based and top-class. The project office wants to help to strengthen this path of success by describing a consistent growth course and to develop offers also together with the municipalities, which have so far only benefited below average from the expansion of the knowledge landscape in the Ruhr Area. In this context, it is particularly important to expand those areas that will be decisive for a climate-friendly, resource-efficient and digitalised economy