12.12.2025: Visiting a model railway club with the Economic Council
This time, the Villingen-Schwenningen/Donaueschingen Section of the Economic Council met at the Model Railway Club Oberes Bregtal (MECOB e.V.). The model railway club has found a home in the premises of a primary school, and so the meeting took place in a classroom. This event did not focus on technical, economic or political issues as […]
17.11.2025: Event of the VDI: 5 Pillars of Action
The VDI (The Association of German Engineers) had invited to an event at Offenburg University featuring Hermann Doppler, co-founder and Vice President of the Peter Drucker Society Mannheim. Hermann Doppler, with many years of experience in senior management as plant manager, managing director, CEO and supervisory board member, presented the ‘5 Pillars of Action’, a […]
14.10.2025: Mentoring for the International Accelerator Program Up2B
This year, Ulrich Dietz was once again asked to provide mentoring for international startups as part of the BW Accelerator Up2B. Up2B is an accelerator program for B2B startups in the fields of IT, Industry 4.0, digitalization, big data, and IoT, and is funded by “Startup BW” and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor, […]
13.10.2025: Visit of the Work-Life Robotics Institute of Hochschule Offenburg
How can robotics and artificial intelligence help to address the shortage of skilled workers in Baden-Württemberg? This question was the focus of a joint event held on October 13 by the Ortenau and Villingen-Schwenningen/Donaueschingen sections of the Economic Council at the Work-Life Robotics Institute (WLRI) at Hochschule Offenburg (Offenburg University of Applied Sciences). The participants […]
01.07.2025: Deutsche Bank AG and Economic Council: Capital Market Outlook and Economy in Baden-Württemberg
With midsummer weather in full swing, there was hardly a more suitable place for a meeting of the Economic Council than the cool vaulted cellar in the Elisabethenturm, a former watchtower in the city wall of Villingen. Today, the Elisabethenturm is used as a meeting place by several local associations. Deutsche Bank AG and the […]
15.05.2025: German Engineers’ Day of VDI – The Association of German Engineers
This year, there was once again the opportunity to attend the VDI German Engineers’ Day (DIT) in Düsseldorf. In addition to many exciting technical presentations, this year’s event also focused on (socio-)political issues: there was consensus that the importance of German engineers for the success of Germany as a business location must be made much […]