Theme 2009: Supply Chain Performance

SPONSORS

The Wachstumsinitiative Süderelbe was founded in December 2004 against the background of an increased need for regional cooperation between Hamburg and its surrounding region. Representing a new type of regional development agency, Süderelbe cooperates with its partners in the form of a "private-public partnership"" (PPP) in which the participation of the business sector is to the fore. With its cluster-oriented strategy, Suederelbe aims to achieve sustainable economic growth in the Southern Metropolitan Region of Hamburg by forming networks and accomplishing project-oriented cooperation between regional companies, service providers, scientific institutions and authorities, thereby crossing borderlines of municipalities, districts and federal states. For this innovative approach to action the SAG was recently awarded the national "kommKoop Award" by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development. According to the laudation, the SAG is "an outstanding and trend-setting example of inter-communal co-operation" in Germany.