The pressure to transform affects the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region in all aspects of life. An ever-evolving working world, demographic changes, and the consequences of climate change are a particular challenge. The University of Mannheim and the Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar GmbH (MRN) as one of nine pairs in the project “Transformationslabor Hochschule” will receive more than 25,000 euros in funding from the Stifterverband.
The funds will bring together a forum made up of university, regional planning, politics, and economy under the lead of the University of Mannheim and the MRN. Stakeholders will exchange their ideas regularly and contribute to tackling the transformative challenges that the region is facing. A graduate school is part of the forum. Students have the opportunity to work on concrete challenges of the region in their final theses together with the partners of the forum. For example, this concerns the digitalization of the working world and our daily environment or urban planning in new climatic conditions.
The forum with the graduate school is closely connected to the collaborative project TransforMA of the University of Mannheim and the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim. TransforMA is aiming to guide and positively shape the transformation of the Metropolitan Region Rhine-Neckar. The graduate school is to actively involve students in the transformative processes.