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7 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: Germany (24)
Since 1999, Berlin has run resident-majority neighbourhood councils in disadvantaged districts, channelling over €530M and ~8,200 projects into 42 areas, though evaluation …
Halle 2 is a municipal-led second-hand store combining circular economy principles with the aim of actively supporting sustainable lifestyles by Munich’s residents. …
The Berlin Equal Opportunities Program has become an important instrument of university equality policy. The state universities of the state of Berlin, …
Founded in Bonn in 1990, ICLEI now links over 2,500 local and regional governments across 125+ countries in a peer-learning network for …
Municipal labor market program which supports ~110 projects that provide education and training, advice, employment: helps people and integrates them into the …
Berlin Partner is an economic development agency that focuses on economic growth, promotes business, technology and innovation, and advocates the opportunities of …
The Socially Integrative City is a community-led local development scheme. This was originally a federal programme but Berlin refined it with a …
Since 1971, the Steinbeis Foundation has grown a decentralised network of roughly 1,100 self-financing transfer enterprises — many run by professors at …
Germany's Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft channels publicly funded applied research into industry via 74 institutes; 2024 business volume hit €3.4bn and industrial revenue reached a …
The City of Munich’s Innovation Challenge is an invitation to submit innovative ideas to solve specific challenges the city is facing. The …
Founded in Berlin in 2010 by 20 university dual-career services, DCND now links over 50 German universities, research institutes and regional networks …
Freiburg turned a former barracks into a ~5,500-resident district with parking-free streets and edge-of-district garages; city data report 172 cars per 1,000 …
A German federal-state programme giving individual coaching to women and men re-entering the labour market after multi-year family-care breaks, with ESF-monitored outcome …
Since 2015, OK Lab Stuttgart's open-source, ~€30 particulate-matter sensor kit has been rebuilt by volunteers into tens of thousands of live stations …
In 2005 Hamburg became the first German state with a legal Business Improvement District framework. Property and business owners have since voted …
In 2022 Germany sold a €9 monthly pass valid on all regional public transport for three months. A tracked panel found a …
Germany's 1976 codetermination law gives workers up to half the seats on large firms' boards. Rigorous natural-experiment studies find modest effects: no …
Max Planck Innovation, the Max Planck Society's technology-transfer arm, has generated over €576m in exploitation revenue and helped launch 200+ spin-offs since …
From Sept 2019 to Jan 2020 five street sections of Hamburg-Ottensen were largely car-free. Surveys showed ~80% saw gains in safety and …
Hamburg's joint chamber-of-commerce/city/employment-agency welcome office fast-tracks residency and labour registration for skilled workers, but 2025 reporting shows a 144-day average wait, an …
Since June 2024, Germany's points-based Chancenkarte lets non-EU professionals enter without a job offer to search for work. Official data: 10,148 cards …
Berlin froze and capped rents on pre-2014 flats in 2020; the Federal Constitutional Court annulled the law in April 2021. Studies find …
Berlin's 2020 state rent freeze lowered advertised rents, but rental listings fell significantly and some units left the rental market; Germany's Federal …
In 2022 Intel and Germany agreed a roughly €10bn subsidy for two Magdeburg chip fabs, promising €30bn of investment and 3,000 jobs. …
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