Developing sustainable urban infrastructure, optimising municipal financial structures and supporting forward-looking urban and neighbourhood development – these are important tasks of the municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia. As a natural and reliable partner to the local authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW.BANK supports cities, communities and districts with financing services and partnership-based, individual advice to help them fulfil these and many other tasks, thus improving the quality of life of the local population.
In the Westphalian town of Emsdetten, promotional manager Joscha Blum makes sure that the town receives the best possible funding for its projects. NRW.BANK supported the municipality in setting up a centralised promotional funds management system.
Joscha Blum is the funding manager for the city of Emsdetten.
Whiteboards, fast data networks, tablet computers – and all this in some 2,000 classrooms! Over the past four years, the city of Gelsenkirchen invested more than 14 million euros in its schools, partly funded by the NRW.BANK.Moderne Schule programme.
School social worker Elena Kirschner uses the whiteboard for her lessons.
To exploit synergies, the municipalities of Winterberg, Medebach and Hallenberg cooperate in various fields such as e-government, job centres or tourism. Free advice and moderation in all these matters is provided by NRW.BANK.
