Who are we? #RRC

The privately financed Rhein Ruhr City initiative was launched in summer 2016 and is concerned with a vision: a supraregional, collaborative and economically and ecologically sustainable concept for Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. Not for, but through the Games, essential future topics such as networked mobility and digitization can be decisively advanced in the Rhine-Ruhr region. This is a decade project that is supported by the participating municipalities. Above all, the Agenda 2020 and the new reformation of Agenda 2020+5 make it clear that a rethink has taken place at the IOC, away from gigantism and toward more sustainable games. Together with the 14 municipalities that are enthusiastic about the idea and vision of Rhein Ruhr City, our goal is to combine forces and synergies for an overarching goal and to think as one metropolitan region in order to realize an ecologically and economically sustainable future on the Rhine and Ruhr. The concept is sustainable now, even before the Games have begun:

Through Olympics

Through possible Olympic and Paralympic Games, essential future topics such as connected mobility, digitization and artificial intelligence, as well as sustainability and topics such as smart cities can be decisively advanced on the region Rhein Ruhr - as a future-oriented decade project that drives the transformation process from fossil to a sustainable digital economic miracle.

In this context, we are organizing the congress series #neuland - Creating the digital future together in cooperation with RWTH Aachen University and Prof. Dr. Günther Schuh. The aim of the congress is to remove innovation barriers between cities and to realize an economical and ecological sustainable future concept for digitally and mobile networked metropolitan regions.