Hamburg News 1/2009 HANSE GLOBE 2008 Happy birthday! Vibrant metropolis New Hamburg trade fair dm-drogeriemarkt is the win- Heidi Oetinger, co-founder of Hamburg‘s creative scenes set With INTERNORGA and Aircraft ner of HANSE GLOBE 2008, the highly reputed Oetinger new trends. Showcasing promi- Interiors Expo, the new Hamburg Hamburg‘s prize for sustainabili- publishing house, celebrated her sing new international acts will trade fair starts in spring with ty in logistics. (p.2) 100th birthday in Hamburg. (p. 3) be Reeperbahn Festival. (p. 4) two international lead fairs. (p. 4) Newsflash Excellent and unique: custom-tailored training in Hamburg Hamburg helps: Many Ten years of NIT – Qualification Programme Task Force secures skilled personnel Hamburg citizens contribute their share in the fight for a Technology and Management better life in underdevelo- are united in Hamburg in a ped countries. One of them unique double degree course, is Dr. Jürgen Hauert. The which now celebrates its first surgeon at the private Dr. ten years: Only at the Northern Guth Clinic helps victims of Institute of Technology Ma- accidents in Ethiopia. Once nagement (NIT) are students or twice per year, he flies able to achieve both an MBA to Addis Abeba, where his degree in Technology Manage- colleague Worku Mekonnen ment from the NIT and a Ma- Bogale has set up the private Yordanos Hospital. There, he ster of Science degree from the furnishes patients with no Hamburg University of Techno- private funds to cover such logy (TUHH) in one course. a surgery, with a new artici- It is thus very attractive to high ficial hip. He also provides potentials from all around the the hospital with urgently globe: Every year, some 1,000 skilled personnel, the Qualifi- cination Flying“ had been ini- needed dispensables, tools, applications reach the busi- cation Programme Task Force tiated in co-operation with the and other materials. Hauert ness school, but only 35 are of the joint initiative Ham- Hamburg University of Applied also supports the local Etho- accepted. They are taught by burg – The place for aviation Sciences. Nextmonth, it will pian team when it comes 40 professors and practising has been creating custom- continue in its fourth year. to purchasing new medical experts. A high emphasis is tailored training and study Another focus in the work of equipment in Germany. placed upon hands-on know- programmes for the aviation the Qualification Programme In Indonesia, a ring of in- novative buoys built by ledge: Internships with the industry. Respective educatio- Task Force is the internationali- Hamburg‘s BSS Behrens school‘s partners such as Air- nal programmes by the Qualifi- sation of its training and study Schiffs- und Schweißtech- bus, Siemens, and Vattenfall cation Programme Task Force, programmes. The Qualification nik GmbH has been set up are compulsory – and often launched in the year 2000 by Programme Task Force has this winter. Their innovative bringt along future job offers. the Hamburg Ministry of Eco- thus been honoured as “best technology will help to better Graduates have excellent job nomic and Labour Affairs, case practise“ by the European protect the island state from perspectives, especially in already start at early age. In Commission. Tsunami disasters. Hamburg‘s aviation industry. spring 2006, the series of talks www.nithh.de To secure the required pool of “Technology for children. Fas- www.luftfahrtstandort-hamburg.de Hamburg supports the entrepreneurs of tomorrow: creative children At Kampnagel‘s “Market of Chances“, the offsprings presented their innovative business ideas Every business begins with a come entrepreneurs“, it merges for further development in work- will develop a business plan and creative idea. What Erich Gu- aspects of theatre and business shops and individual consultan- receive start-up funds of 100 to tenberg, founder of German into an exciting edutainment cy. In the end, 29 children aged 600 Euro. The project is sup- economics, once said, recently happening. In autumn, Wilske six to fourteen remained and ported by the Hamburg Culture became the slogan for a unique had asked Hamburg pupils to presented their business ideas Endowment and the Hamburg project initiated and realised by write down their business ideas. at a “Market of Chances“ at Endowment for Children and the Hamburg director Judith Out of more than 1,000 entries, Kampnagel. In a next step, the Rajapack as national sponsor. Wilske. Called “Children be- 72 contributions were chosen innovative mini entrepreneurs www.kinder-zu-unternehmern.de Hamburg News 1/2009 Page 2 Shortcuts Hamburg grants HANSE GLOBE 2008 to dm-drogerie markt Beiersdorf at the Dax HANSE GLOBE 2008, based in Karlsruhe was granted the start of operations in the The Hamburg holding Beiers- Hamburg‘s award for sustaina- the trophy in recognition of its 146,000 sqm logistics centre dorf AG, producer of NIVEA bility in logistics, was granted concept of “a life cycle based scheduled for September, the and other global brands such to dm-drogerie markt. investment decision“, which chemist‘s chain will then not as tesa, has joined Germany‘s The trophy was handed out by reinforces actions to be entre- only have bundled the logistics benchmark DAX-30 Index. The Hamburg‘s Senator of Econo- preneurial and sustainable. A streams of his 1,020 outlets, blue chip stock market index mic and Labour Affairs, Axel central element in the project but also increased its positive consists of Germany‘s top Gedaschko, and Prof. Dr. Peer is the dm‘s new logistics centre environmental performance. 30 companies trading at the Frankfurt stock exchange. Witten, speaker of the logistics in the south of Cologne. The To reduce CO2 emission, a pel- www.beiersdorf.de initiative Hamburg, to Michael new building will house under lets heating system will then J. Kolodziej, Executive Vice one roof two formerly sepa- be installed along with a pho- 100 millionth chip President of dm in charge of rate facilities: the distribution tovoltaic unit on the roof. The Hamburg-based semi- logistics, in a ceremony with centre for cardboard packed The award for granted for the conductor manufacturer NXP some 400 guests from politics goods in Weilerswist and the second time. First laureate in delivered its 100 millionth chip and business. small parts distribution centre 2007 had been TNT Express. for electronic passports. 80 per The health and beauty retailer in nearby Meckenheim. With www.hamburg-logistik.net cent of all ePasses worldwide feature the smart chips produ- ced in Hamburg. www.nxp.com Cluster of excellence to expand interdisciplinary research 100 new scientists to work at the Climate Campus Hamburg Vertical integration The Climate Campus Hamburg now receive funds of 26 million ed facilities in climate research Hamburg-based COLEXON expands its research team by Euro until 2012. Hamburg sup- were bundled in the Centre for Energy AG and Renewagy A/S from Copenhagen will merge. 100 additional scientists, inclu- ports its climate researchers by Marine and Atmospheric Sci- In the course of the transaction, ded also eight professors. They additional nine million Euro. ence (ZMAW). Together with the Danish operator of solar will significantly contribute to Climate research is a Hamburg the Max-Planck-Institute of Me- power plants and wind farms strengthen Hamburg‘s leading tradition, dating back more teorology, the GKSS research Renewagy A/S will be merged role in climate research. The than 50 years. Already in 1929, centre Geesthacht and federal onto COLEXON Energy AG, extension of interdisciplinary Hamburg University founded research facilities, an interdis- which will become a Societas research was made possible its Institute of Meteorology. In ciplinary network of university Europea (SE) and change its by the project “Integrated Cli- 1975, the Max-Planck-Institute and leading independent insti- name into „COLEXON SE“. mate System Analysis and Pre- of Meteorology was establis- tutes has been formed: Climate The merger is subject to the diction“ (CliSAP), with which hed, followed two years later Campus Hamburg, which co- approval of the shareholders‘ Hamburg University had won by the German Climate Compu- operates with associated insti- annual meetings in May and the federal cluster of excellence ting Centre (DKRZ). tutes worldwide. will become retrospectively ef- fective as of January 1, 2009. competition in 2007 and will In 2003, all these highly reput- www.klimacampus.de www.colexon.de 150 new jobs Peak performances in the Hamburg Metropolitan Area walter services TeleMedien GmbH, subsidiary of the Ett- Business development corporations keep the regions going lingen-based services provider walter services, has opened a The business development cor- staff of 100. Self-employment of the Hamburg Metropolitan branch in Hamburg and is cur- porations of the rural districts is support by WLH‘s “Start-up Area. rently recruiting 150 new staff. of the Hamburg Metropolitan Workshop Rural Harburg“. In 120 of them will be employed Area are the hot generators of the frame of WLH‘s quality of- Co-operation with Stormarn at a telecommunications hot- the region. fensive in retail, a golden book Co-operation of Hamburg and line, further 30 in the field of of the region was published, the northern rural district Stor- banking and insurances. www.walterservices.com Ten years of WLH featuring ten top performers marn, initiated some 20 years Celebrating ten years of suc- and brands (www.ja-genau.eu). ago, was recently strengthened Foundation stone laid cess is the business develop- by the decision to improve the At HafenCity, construction ment corporation of the rural Süderelbe AG active abroad existing traffic infrastructure. of the new 14 storey head- district of Harburg (WLH). Its For the first active abroad, Following the introduction of quarters of the Spiegel media activities have not only lead to Süderelbe AG presented the Germany‘s first dual-power group has started with the la- the creation of 1,081 new jobs, south of the Hamburg Me- rapid rail line S3 to Stade, the ying of the foundation stone at but also to the sale of 42 hec- tropolitan Area at the China rapid rail network of S4 is sche- Ericus-spitze.