PARTNER DETAILS

Partner name: Investitions Bank Hessen AG IBH
Region: Hessen
Country: Germany
Website: http://www.ibh-hessen.de
Reference person: Olaf Jueptner
FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT THE REGION

Country: Germany
Total land area: 21.114 km2
Population: 6.089.000
Population density: 288 per km2
GDP of Region: EUR 193.673 million
GDP per capita: EUR 62.140
Main Cities: Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Kassel, Darmstadt, Offenbach
Main Industries: Chemistry, engine building, automotive, IT, electrical engineering
Regional NUTS status: NUTS 1
Objective Status: Partially Objective 2
Region Description:

• fifth largest federal state in Germany, divided in three administrative regions: Kassel, Gießen, Darmstadt , 21 districts and 426 local authorities
• high concentration of service sector,
• financial services banking, assurances,
• high activities in new media technologies, IT/Software providers
• many headquarters of international companies
• 85% small and medium enterprises
• Internet hub, internet-exchange node (DECIX) with 90 % of german internet traffic, 35% of european internet traffic, name root server in Frankfurt
• National and international fairs
• Frankfurt airport as european traffic hub,
• Masterplan for e-government: Hessen aims at being precursor for the implementation of e-government, forced activities started in 2003

Partner Description:
IBH is the economic development agency of the state of Hessen thus being active in supporting enterprises and companies in Hessen

• target group are small and medium enterprises
• monetary and non-monetary services
• central coordination of economic activities, location marketing and consulting services
• Provision of information about economical issues for private and public enterprises and institutions
• Provision of information about new media technologies via hessen-media, the top level multimedia initiative
• Over 100 projects with various target groups (SMEs, universities, social institutions and networks)
• Euro Info Centre and Innovation Relay Center