Concepts + implementation support
Supporting survival and growth of graduate entrepreneurship: skills, competences and start-up support, 2011-2013
Responsibilities: external consultant to compile regional political and economic analyses, to plan and organise the extensive interview programme of the OECD experts as well as workshops, and to maintain a smooth communication among the involved project partners in ministries and regional institutions
Client: Organisatin for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Project website
Consulting services related to the thematic and organisational development of the cluster initiative Logistik RheinMain, since 2010
Responsibilities: Formulation of strategies for the development and institutionalisation of the initiative, design, preparation and moderation of selected conferences and events
Client: EBS Business School
“Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in East Germany” within the “Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED)” Programme of the OECD, 2010
Responsibilities: external consultant to prepare and implement a strategic workshop concerning future project development, and to maintain a smooth communication among the involved project partners in ministries and the OECD
Client: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
„Logistik RheinMain. The Know-how Initiative“, 2007-2010
Responsibilites: Deputy Director and Director of the central office of Logistik RheinMain (emplyed by EBS Business School) to set-up the office, to instruct employees, to coordinate studies and conceptual design projects, to coordinate operative planning and steering, to manage projects, to acquire and attend to sponsors, to represent the initiative in the management board of the Gruendungsinitiative Frankfurt HOLM e. V. (House of Logistics and Mobility)
Website of Logistik RheinMain (in German)
Website of House of Logistics and Mobility: www.frankfurt-holm.de
Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in East Germany” within the “Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED)” Programme of the OECD, 2007 – 2009
Responsibilities: external consultant to compile regional political and economic analyses, to plan and organise the extensive interview programme of the OECD experts as well as workshops and high-ranking conferences, and to maintain a smooth communication among the involved project partners in ministries and regional institutions
Client: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Project website
Project “Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in East Germany” within the “Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED)” Programme of the OECD, 2007
Responsibilities: external consultant to support the development of a concept, the preparation, implementation and post-processing of a conference for economic policy makers
Client: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Coordination of the cooperation of the German Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development with the “Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED)” Programme of the OECD for the implementation of international experience to support entrepreneurship and local partnerships in less-favoured regions in East Germany, 2005 – 2006
Responsibilities: Project management, preparatory analyses and expert opinions for the OECD team, organisation of workshops and expert interviews
Client: Regionomica
Interreg III B project “TECNOMAN perspectives” (Network for the management of European node regions) – cooperation of 13 European regions to find solutions for the development of business locations in node regions, 2003 – 2006
Responsibilities: Coordination (“focus management”) of the thematic focus “Development of new business locations” – technical support of regional projects, synthesis of project results, preparation and moderation of transnational workshops
Client: Regionomica
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Further Development of the ”Route of Industrial Culture in the Rhine-Main Region”, since 2010
Responsibilities: Research on new places and locations in the Hochtaunuskreis District near Frankfurt/Main relevant for the project, desk research, expert interviews with representatives of communities, museums, archives, assocations etc.; editorial responsibility for the programme of the Days of Industrial Culture in the Greater Frankfurt Area 2011
Client: KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH
Downloadof the programme (German; PDF, 2,7 MB)
Study ”Locational Advantage due to Logistics Competence in Wiesbaden and the Rhine-Main Region”, 2009
Responsibilities: project manager and significant contribution to the study
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Study “Strengthening international cooperation by means of cluster development in the automotive supplying industry and analysis of the regional marketing with regard to the acquisition of foreign direct investment ” in the regions Saxony-Anhalt (Germany), Valencia (Spain), Centre (France) and North Great Plain (Hungary) in the framework of the Interreg III C-financed Regional Framework Operation “Perspectives 2007 – 2013″, 2006
Responsibilities: Project manager and significant contribution to the study
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Expert Report “Regional economic effects and success factors of the logistics cluster in Hamburg”, 2004
Responsibilities: Significant contribution to the research
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Download der Studie (German), (PDF, 532 KB)
Socio-economic analysis of the State of Brandenburg – recommendations for the implementation of the Structural Funds of the EU 2007 – 2013, 2005
Responsibilities: Quantitative analysis
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Study on the State of cluster development in the regions Limburg (Netherlands), North East of England (Great Britain), Valencia (Spain) and Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) in the framework of the Interreg III C-financed Regional Framework Operation “TouriSME”, 2004
Responsibilities: Project manager and significant contribution to the study
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Project to study the situation of freelancers in the State of Brandenburg with an estimation of the number and structure of freelancers in the state, 2004
Responsibilities: Project manager and significant contribution to the study
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Evaluation of the GA-B Directive to fund non-investive business activities of small and medium-sized companies in the Federal State of Brandenburg, 2002
Responsibilities: Project manager and significant contribution to the evaluation study
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Study on the feasibility of a business incubator for business women and foundresses in the Federal State of Brandenburg, 2004
Responsibilities: Significant contribution to the demand analysis
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Summary report of regional studies concerning the demand for skilled labour in the Saxon economy”, 2003
Responsibilities: Project manager and significant contribution to the study
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Study “The future design of structural policy in rural areas in the Free State of Saxony for the period 2007 bis 2013″, 2003
Responsibilities: Significant contribution to the research
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Cluster forum Logistik RheinMain “Fresh Input for Logistics – Business Meets Academia“ Impulse für die Logistik – Wirtschaft trifft Wissenschaft“ in collaboration with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Frankfurt/Main, 2010
Responsiblities: Conference design, project management and moderation of the event
Client: EBS Business School
First Oberursel Conference on Values and Business, 2011
Responsiblities: Development, organisation, implementation and post-processing of the conference, moderation of the sequences “Mega-trend: globalisation 2.0 and urbanisation” and “Local success factors: urban and regional marketing”
Three other members of focus O. – Association of the Self-Employed and Entrepeneurs in Oberursel and I initiated and organised the conference under the patronage of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Frankfurt/Main. We considered the conference as our association’s contribution to the “Hessentag”, a 10-days-event with exhibitions, presentations, concerts and other events on topics related to the Federal State of Hesse.
Downloadof the programme (in German; PDF, 2.7 MB)
Cooperation forum Logistik “The Greater Frankfurt Area as an Intermodal Hub“ in collaboration with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Hanau and with LogistikNetz Bayerischer Untermain, Bayern Innovativ und the city of Hanau, 2010
Responsibilities: Conference design, project management and moderation of the event
Realised during employment as the Director of the central Logistik RheinMain Office
RED Manager – Regional Economic Development Training Programme in the framework of InWEnt training and education programmes, 2005 – 2007, 2009, 2011
Responsibilities: Design and implementation of training sessions and study tours for Asian and East European regional managers and economic promoters, exemplary themes: cluster development and regional development concepts
Client: Regionomica GmbH
Regional forum Logistik Mainz/Rheinhessen „Future of Logistics. Ideas for Innovation – Produktivity – Growth“ in collaboration with the Ministery for Economy, Transport, Agriculture und Viniculture of Rhineland-Palatinate and with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Rheinhessen, 2008
Responsibilities: Design, organisation and management of the regional forum
Realised during employment as the Director of the central Logistik RheinMain Office
Downloadof the event documentation (German), (PDF, 1,2 MB)
Sector conferences and workshops for small and medium-sized companies in Berlin eastside (districts of Berlin Lichtenberg and Marzahn-Hellersdorf), 2005 – 2006
Responsibilities: Organisation and implementation of conferences and workshops for health care, tourism and training companies as well as event to promote business contacts with Central and East European countries
Client: Regionomica GmbH
TACIS project REDAM – Regional Economic Development of the Armenian Marzes (Regions), 2005
Responsibilities: Design of modules and compilation of materials for a training programme about regional development for Armenian civil servants
Client: Regionomica Europe Consulting
Training for Regional Investment Promotion Asia (TRIP ASIA) in the framework of InWEnt training and education programmes, 2001 – 2004 yearly
Responsibilities: Design, organisation and implementation of study tours for Southeast Asian junior managers in the field economic promotion, design and implementation of a workshop about intercultural communication
Client: Regionomica GmbH
