GEMIT - Business Process Management and IT

The Institute of Business Process Management and IT (GEMIT) of the Hochschule Niederrhein - University of Applied Sciences in Mönchengladbach is engaged in application-oriented research in the fields of logistics, IT and human resources.

NIERS - Niederrhein Institute for Regional and Structural Research (NIERS)

The NIERS - Niederrhein Institute for Regional and Structural Research (NIERS) deals with questions of regional structural change, regional sustainability and future viability from a regional science perspective. With our research, we generate findings for understanding and shaping regional and socio-economic structures and change processes and thus aim to contribute to solving spatial social and economic challenges.

Cooperation within the institute is characterized by mutual respect and appreciation. Everyone contributes their own knowledge and thus creates a lively research and institute culture. A high degree of interdisciplinarity characterizes our work both internally and externally and contributes to the continuous development of the Institute's topics.

Our work is based on a circular understanding of knowledge and transfer. This means that our research and project partners and target groups are both the addressees of and the initiators for our work.

The target group of NIERS' activities includes the scientific community, local and regional stakeholders and the wider public. As an affiliated institute of a university, we also see research-based teaching and learning as part of our mission, meaning that students should also be mentioned as a further target group.

Clavis - Institute for Information Security of the Hochschule Niederrhein

Application-oriented research to ensure and increase the information security of organizations and companies in the Middle Niederrhein region.

EthNa - Competence Centre CSR

Ethics and sustainability are demands that are increasingly being made of entrepreneurs and management by customers and the critical public. These demands include the value creation activities of suppliers along the entire supply chain. The EthNa Competence Centre CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) supports companies in making economically successful actions at the same time socially and ecologically compatible.

Institutes and competence centres -think tank of the region

Under the umbrella of the Hochschule Niederrhein, research, development and know-how transfer take place in the region.

The Hochschule Niederrhein's Mobile Extended Reality (MXR) Lab offers a unique experience space for interdisciplinary research and innovation in the fields of extended reality (XR) and interaction with virtual AI assistants.

The Digilab is a place where creativity is encouraged. Here, like-minded people meet who want to research and experiment together.