Further Contact Person

• Dr.-Ing. Kirsten Mangels

Services

• Consulting
• Expert reports
• Project management
• Research in future markets relating to regional development
• Training, employee education - seminars, conventions, customized courses, master’s degree programs
• Moderation, mediation, citizen involvement, citizen expert reports

Key Areas

Consulting, planning and expert reports

• Regional and municipal development planning
• New instruments of regional development and planning as well as state planning: regional expert reports, region and location marketing
• Regional management
• Regional and municipal tourism; tourism research; major leisure activities
• Retail research (major retail projects and FOC)
• Economic development in the community
• Consulting on the fostering and setting up of regional development programs and planning
• Settlement development and housing market analysis
• Demographic change - regional and municipal population planning
• Socioeconomic structure research on a regional and municipal level
• Cross-border cooperation (cross-border development planning; cross-border regional and project management)
• Metropolitan areas
• Development of model examples
• Studies on sustainability
• Public management
• Military, industrial and tourist conversion
• Specialist planning (e.g. analysis of reaction to transport projects)
• Business consulting – corporate consulting
  • Market research and market analysis
  • Location research and consulting
  • Land use consulting and management
  • Image analysis
  • Company biographies
  • Employment market analysis
• European Economic Interest Grouping – EEIG start-up consulting
• Market and location analysis in Germany, in Central and Eastern European countries and countries in the Middle East
• Implementation and initiation of regional development processes, project management
• Information and consulting on regional and structural funding from the EU (consulting on applications to funding programs)
• EU projects (development, coordination, management, funding summaries, submission of applications)
• Cross-border regional and project management
• Moderation
• Collaboration service center for Central and Eastern European states, research
• Regional and municipal development
• Regional economies and empirical economic development
• Regional and structural policy
• Scientific support research

Staff training and employee development

• Services in the field of virtual higher education at an international level
• Seminars (new tools, EU projects, funding options, management of demographic change, managing economic redevelopment zones and infrastructure change, etc.)
• Concept planning, organization and implementation of conventions, conferences, seminars and training
• Speeches
• Master’s degree program in regional and municipal development in the EU and with the EU
• Publications

Methods

• SWOT analysis
• Regional development research and observational studies
• Cost-benefit analysis and cost-utility analysis
• Structural analysis
• Impact analysis
• Image analysis
• Evaluations
• Benchmarking
• Empirical social research methods (surveys, expert interviews, Delphi techniques etc.)
• Market analysis
• Location analysis
• Acceptance analysis
• Supporting scientific research
• Concept planning and organization of specialist field trips

Project Examples

• Assessment of INTERREG III A Project – "NICE - Networking ICT Clusters in Europe"
• Tourism outlook for the city of Kaiserslautern and the surrounding area
• Housing Policy 2020 action plan for the Bonn/Rhein-Sieg/Ahrweiler regional working group
• Success criteria of growth catalysts outside metropolitan areas
• Concept planning, organization, implementation and scientific support on the trilateral redevelopment convention "Military redevelopment and its impact on communal and regional development in Rheinland-Palatinate, Bavaria and the Czech Republic"
• Market and location analysis for a village shop with annexed bistro
• Elderly housing in the Mainz-Bingen district
• The impact of demographic change on the economy and employment market in the Südwestpfalz district
• Retail planning in Morbach
• Academic planning, consulting, support with and running of a summer school on "The Arts, Shaping the Future – Knowledge – Values – Work in the Future "
• Municipal development plan for the town of St. Peter with a focus on tourism
• Regional and municipal development prospects in the area of Hermeskeil, Mendig, Rheinböllen and Westerburg with a focus on the impact of German army redevelopments
• Project coordination of INTERREG III B Project "DART" – the regional economic impact of regional airports – discussion based on the example of Frankfurt Hahn and Glasgow Prestwick airports, as well as regional airports in Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic"
• Regional development legislation study on transport in regional planning – a comparative analysis on the improvement of communal planning
• Impact of EU structural policy on regional development - discussion on selected projects in the 5 B program and the joint EU initiatives INTERREG II and LEADER II
• Pilot project: "(Virtual) training and staff education" in regional development, land use and state and regional planning, as part of an innovation funding program sponsored by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate on behalf of the Rhineland-Pfalz State Ministry of Science, Further Education, Research and Culture
• Development, structuring and recommended courses of actions for municipal retailers and tourism