The Expat Service Desk ME&DUS was founded by three official project partners as a modern point of contact and a new kind of platform based in Düsseldorf. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of small to medium-sized enterprises as well as of international professionals / expats and their families in the region Düsseldorf – County of Mettmann.
Since 2017, the Expat Service Desk has had successful backing at intercommunity level from the Office for Economic Development of the City of Düsseldorf, the Department of Economic Development of the County of Mettmann and Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
The IHK Düsseldorf represents the interests of around 93,000 member companies operating in the industrial, retail and service sectors within the City of Düsseldorf and the ten cities within the County of Mettmann. The area covered by the IHK is now one of Germany’s strongest economic regions in Germany.
Its goal is to create better conditions for business. The IHK Düsseldorf is a public corporation and a service organisation that represents the interests of companies within the area it covers.
It offers its member companies a wide range of services and holds a number of events. It advises on matters concerning trade, corporate, commercial, tax, labour and competition law. Start-ups, for example, are offered a complete information service in the form of personal advice and seminars. The IHK Düsseldorf is also a central organisation responsible for education and training. In addition, the IHK Düsseldorf is on hand as a service partner to support national and international companies throughout every phase of their foreign business, from taking the first steps in a foreign market and setting up production to dealing with legal matters involving exports and imports as well as export control.
The IHK Düsseldorf is one of three Expat Service Desk project partners. Its office is located in the IHK building at Ernst-Schneider-Platz 1 in Düsseldorf.
The County of Mettmann is an attractive business location characterised by its unique industry mix of small, medium-sized, globally active and well-known companies as well as hidden champions. Local and international companies like to base themselves here.
With its ten towns, the populous County of Mettmann is situated within Europe’s largest conurbation. Research and development are at home here among the innovative companies and universities. With the ‘Key Region’, there is a cluster for security technology in the County – most of the world’s car locks and keys come from here.
The Department of Economic Development in the County of Mettmann develops and markets the County of Mettmann as a business location, boosts its competitiveness, cooperates with associations, chambers and companies, and is a service provider and partner for companies, start-ups and towns within the County. In addition, the Department of Economic Development devises strategies for securing skilled workers in the region and increases cooperation between companies, universities and schools. The Department of Economic Development serves as a central organisation for local economic development in the ten towns of Erkrath, Haan, Heiligenhaus, Hilden, Langenfeld, Mettmann, Monheim am Rhein, Ratingen, Velbert and Wülfrath.
With a population of over 640,000 people, the City of Düsseldorf is the second-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the state’s biggest industrial centres. Around 5,000 international companies have found their ideal location and business conditions here. There is a strong link between industry and production in Düsseldorf. A broadly based service sector benefits from proximity to customers in the city and the wider region. At the same time, numerous innovative and technology-based service providers give the industries valuable input.
The task of the Office of Economic Development is to continuously develop Düsseldorf as an international business location and create the ideal conditions and space for companies. This especially applies to the areas of innovation, digital transformation and talent acquisition.
In addition, the Office of Economic Development is on hand as a service partner to advise national and international companies in matters relating to approval procedures, for example, but also when it comes to searching for the right property or relocating a business within the urban area.
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