Industry Hubs — from an initiative to a project

Written by Oliver Dittrich

First steps

Industry Days is an initiative we launched last year, where we held our first event in Hamburg. The city ranked within the top ten most livable cities worldwide, or like some people like to call it, it is the Venezia or pearl of the north.

In that same year, Bremen, Braunschweig, and Dresden organized the second edition of the initiative on the topic of automotive industries in Germany.

This event connected multiple Local Groups (LGs) and showcased a specific group of industries from different perspectives and locations. Hamburg focused on the aviation industry within their city, whereas Bremen, Braunschweig, and Dresden came up with a road trip through Germany to introduce the automotive industry and give an insight into how famous car brands like BMW, Mercedes or VolksWagen work.

From Industry Days to Industry Hubs

Industry Days started as an event idea and was transformed into a project in our network, it started getting accepted by LGs and being implemented in the structure of ESTIEM. During this process, however, its definition changed. We decided to change the name in order to avoid confusion with other similarly named projects, we came up with a new logo and we developed the current structure as you know it. But why Industry Hubs?

Industry hubs are cities or regions where specific types of businesses are clustered. Whether the sector is aerospace, foodstuffs, automotive, shipping, steel production or whatever your region offers, new hubs are springing up ranging from manufacturers of sporting goods to nanotechnology firms. After Council Meeting (CM) Warsaw, the first project under this name took place in Russia. Two Local Groups, Saint Petersburg and Moscow, decided to help us in shaping Industry Hubs.

3rd Edition of Industry Hubs

The two capitals-Moscow the official capital and Saint Petersburg as the cultural capital-presented their logistics systems. In Moscow, the biggest city in Russia, participants learned how the administration manages the traffic of twelve million inhabitants and four public airports for passengers.

LG Saint Petersburg showed participants not only the cultural side of this variegated country but also the seaport, the reason why this beloved city is known as the ‘Window to Europe’. Not to mention the Trans-Siberian Railway, the longest railway line in the world, a must-visit in every ESTIEMer’s bucket list, which successfully completed the representation of the Russian logistics hub.

If you would like to share your country’s Industry Hub with our network, take a step forward and help shape this into a new project.

Originally published at http://estiemblog.azurewebsites.net on June 12, 2019.