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FOR HIGH-FLYERS
Successful in Cottbus
www.egc-cottbus.de/en
FOR THE DISCERNING
Successful in Cottbus
We are advisors, facilitators, and partners. As the intermediary between
municipal administration and the economy, we help businesses in Information, Communication and Media Centre
successfully establishing themselves in Cottbus. For already established (IKMZ) at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
companies, we offer support in their growth process with strategic analysis,
solution-oriented advice, and joined-up operations. Always committed,
confidential, and always in the interest of the entire business location.
Tina Reiche,
Managing Director at EGC Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus
www.egc-cottbus.de/en
EGC WIRTSCHAFTSFÖRDERUNG
COTTBUS PRESENTS ITSELF
Welcome to Cottbus, an emerging city
in transition with energy in its DNA and
where every corner resonates with
momentum. In Cottbus, projects are
promoted with full commitment – be it for
entrepreneurs, investors, or established
companies: Cottbus offers space for all
with an interest. Your idea, too, is perfect
here. Discover the promising economic
potential and site advantages – let us
together turn your vision into reality.
To successful cooperation!
Tina Reiche
Managing Director at
EGC Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus
VITAL MOMENTUM
FROM EGC
The key mandate of EGC Wirtschafts-
förderung Cottbus is to structure the city's
economic development in a future-proof
and sustainable manner. In doing so, EGC is
independent, neutral, competent, and very
discreet. Together with businesses and
stakeholders, EGC's objectives are active
urban development and the creation of a
diversified economic structure.
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FROM OUR WORK
VerbraucherRitter –
120 new jobs Forsa Institute Settlement
The ECR European Consumer Rights With the establishment of a Forsa Institute
GmbH, based in Gräfelfing near Munich, branch in 2020, the opinions of people
opened a branch office in Cottbus in 2018 across Germany are now being researched
after Steffen Matz, company founder also from out of Cottbus. The market and
of VerbraucherRitter, learned about the research institute opened a telephone
closure of a large local call centre. He studio for challenging surveys at the
decided to employ the over one hundred beginning of the year, creating about 40
well-trained professionals in his fast- new jobs. The decision in favour of Cottbus
growing company. Following contact as a location was preceded by intensive
with the Mayor of Cottbus, Holger Kelch, personal consultations with Mayor Holger
EGC Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus Kelch and the Chamber of Industry and
provided intensive investor support. Commerce. EGC Wirtschaftsförderung
Since its establishment, the team of Cottbus took on the search for premises;
VerbraucherRitter has been enriching the the Job Centre helped in the recruitment of
city’s modern service sector. personnel.
At our joint economic forum ‘Smart City’, organised
by EGC Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus and Siemens AG,
regional attendants from communal politics, communal
managers as well as top-class Siemens customers from
all over Lusatia got to talk to each other. I was delighted
that partners, who had previously not yet met, engaged in
animated discussions, exchanged ideas, and saw these as a
good basis for further talks.
The Economic Forum 2018, organised by EGC and Siemens AG
Torsten Arnold,
Torsten Arnold, Branch Manager at Siemens AG
Thanks to EGC and their excellent support we were
able to quickly find suitable rented premises. Everything went
well, despite the tight deadline. After only a short time we
already felt properly established in Cottbus.
Berthold Jansen,
Managing Director at Heusch/Boesefeld GmbH
Control Centre Heusch/Boesefeld GmbH 2018
www.egc-cottbus.de/en
FOR THE DECISIVE
Successful in Cottbus
FOR WHOM
As the municipal economic promotion
agency of the City of Cottbus, EGC supports
established businesses and future
investors of any size and in any sector. It
moreover actively supports entrepreneurs
and start-ups on their path to success.
EGC is the contact partner for:
• Visionaries who wish to invest in
Cottbus and launch project ideas.
• Initiators who wish to modernise,
expand, or change their business
within the city.
• Newcomers who venture to realise
their business idea in Cottbus and
seek interdisciplinary cooperation
with partners.
• All who decide to arrive in Cottbus
with an enterprising spirit, to grow
and to stay.
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FOR THE MOTIVATED
Successful in Cottbus
We were warmly welcomed by EGC and well advised, built
trust. The hard site factors are equally a match. We were
able to rent good premises in a central location and with the
fibre optic cable we have overall a better infrastructure than
in Munich.
Steffen Matz
Company Founder at VerbraucherRitter
www.egc-cottbus.de/en
EGC SUPPORTS
The implementation of a project idea
takes time, effort, and energy. The EGC
Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus’s Company
Service provides support in the search
for a suitable plot or industrial property
for lease or purchase from the start.
Depending on the requirements regarding
the space or property as well as the price,
EGC compiles the key data for the business
site, prepares specific proposals and
liaises with contact partners for financing
and funding options.
Businesses and fresh entrepreneurs
starting from scratch are supported by EGC
throughout on their way to independence
and successful development. EGC points
out the relevant authorities, chambers,
associations, and finance providers and
supports those interested in its sites
from the first inquiry to conclusion of the
authorisation processes.
In the implementation phase, too,
EGC Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus
supports investors, businesses, and
entrepreneurs, including ensuring the
skilled labour supply and recruitment.
EGC moreover promotes exchange and
technology transfer between the involved
parties, enables access to research and
development results and their transfer
into the economy.
Cottbus is pushed forward
by energetic businesses,
sustainable ideas, and the
courage to break the mould.
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FOR NEWCOMERS
Successful in Cottbus
We are the modern ‘capital’ of Lusatia. We live, shape and
explore structural change, especially in the energy industry.
We want to be pioneers of digitalisation, want to become a
hydrogen and health region. As a university and traditional
park city, we offer pulsating life for wellness.
Holger Kelch
Mayor of Cottbus
www.egc-cottbus.de/en
THIS IS COTTBUS 165 km2 total area (64 sq mi)
100,148 population
(Last updated: January 2019)
With a population of 100,000, Cottbus is
by now the largest regional growth centre 7,280 students (2019)
south of the Berlin-Brandenburg capital
city region. Its central location in the heart
of Europe, the efficient infrastructure, Employees subject to
social insurance contributions in Cottbus
the attractive industrial sites as well as
the surrounding nature and the people 10 %
themselves form a unique combination of service industry
locational advantages. They make Cottbus manufacturing industry
an interesting address for numerous 89
agriculture and forestry, fisheries
%
sectors.
In addition to the traditional sectors of Sector shares in the service industry
metal industry, mining, conventional energy
25 %
industry and technology, a host of innovative commerce, transport, hospitality industry
public administration,
businesses and future-oriented sectors 14 %
defence, social insurance
have discovered Cottbus. The sectors of 12 % healthcare sector
biotechnology, care, health, information 7%
real estate, freelance scientific /
technology and renewable energy in technical services
6% education / teaching
particular benefit from ideal conditions
regarding education, science and research
in the city.
Cottbus and its environs are home to over
6,700 businesses. In addition to innovative
2.28 km2 space/area potential
(0.9 sq mi)
SMEs, the pillars of economy include also
multicorporate enterprises such as LEAG, Unemployment rate
Deutsche Bahn, Carl-Thiem-Klinikum, ABB 9.7 % 7.4 %
Automation GmbH and Siemens AG.
N
POZNAŃ
220 km 2015 2019
BERLIN
(PL)
110 km
Net number of commuters (2017)
COTTBUS
A13 21,931 inbound commuters
A15 13,001 outbound commuters
A13 1,943
WROCŁAW hours of sunshine 2019
220 km
(PL)
74
nurseries and after
school care centres
DRESDEN
100 km 36
schools
PRAGUE
250 km 96.1 %
(CZE) care rate for ages 3 to 6 (2019)
8|9FOR THE AMBITIOUS
Successful in Cottbus
Cottbus centre
COTTBUS TODAY
Cottbus is the economic, service, and administrative centre of Lusatia,
with special framework conditions. The city is:
• strong with regards to infrastructure • a location for education and science
With its advantageous location between Cottbus is home to the only technical
Berlin and Dresden, Cottbus offers an university in the Federal State of
ideal intersection of important transport Brandenburg: BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.
routes, providing direct access to Eastern
and Southern Europe. • a location for research
The scientific community is varied,
• a location for health including research institutes focusing
Cottbus boasts Brandenburg’s largest on specific topics such as, in the field
hospital with 1,200 beds and 2,500 of energy technology, the Centrum für
employees. Moreover, it is an academic Energietechnologie Brandenburg and the
teaching hospital governed by Charité Fraunhofer Institut, as well as the Panta
Berlin and actively supports the practical Rhei research centre that primarily focuses
training of medical students. on lightweight construction materials.www.egc-cottbus.de/en
COTTBUS TOMORROW Cottbus has big plans
The flooding of the former lignite opencast mine
started in 2019. It will transform over the next few
Cottbus is a dynamic city that in the next few years into the Cottbuser Ostsee lake with a water
years faces wide-ranging structural change area of about 7.7 km2 (3 sq mi). This includes the
from a lignite mining region to an innovation creation of a CO2 neutral harbour district, among
region and which is ready for success. other things. Germany’s largest artificial water
body promises urban life, work and research by
• Smart City Cottbus the lake side including sport and leisure activities.
Cottbus backs digitalisation in all fields of
life – apps and municipal online services
make processes increasingly easier,
faster and sustainable. Digitalisation
projects are being systematically
pursued in the seven fields of action
Health, Economy, Energy, Education,
Administration, Urban Development and
Mobility.
• Academic Business Incubation Centre
The Business Incubation Centre on the
BTU campus with over 5,000 m² (53,893
sq ft) will open in 2021. It will provide
entrepreneurial opportunities for business Post mining landscape / future Cottbuser Ostsee lake
founders and start-ups and offers the
incentive to develop ideas to market
maturity on site and to successfully
manage businesses on a permanent basis.
• Hydrogen Model City
In future, Cottbus intends to use
A HIGHLY
hydrogen as an energy source. The LIVABLE PLACE
conversion of the energy system and
the establishment of emission-free local
transport are the stakeholders’ declared
goals. Cottbus has lots to offer not only from an
economic point of view – the ‘Lusatian
• Model Region Health Lusatia capital’ is also a great place to live in.
Cottbus aims at establishing state-run Private individuals benefit from attractive
university medicine. The Carl-Thiem- conditions for building as well as modern,
Klinikum is to become a teaching hospital affordable housing in a family-friendly
and a digital central hospital. environment. They can choose from a
wide range of nurseries and schools and
• Model Region Care the childcare provision is so good that
In line with the forecasts regarding Cottbus was ranked among the five best
skilled labour development in the cities in Germany according to a survey by
care sector, the city government, EGC www.betreut.de. The Spreewald and the
Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus and the Lusatian Lake District offer a host of leisure
Carl-Thiem-Klinikum have developed activities and nature in the immediate
their own concept ‘Model Region Care vicinity. Those with an interest in culture
Cottbus and Lower Lusatia’. It explores and sports are equally well catered for:
ideas for the innovative safeguarding with the Olympiastützpunkt, the city
of the skilled labour supply in the region boasts one of the largest and most modern
across sectors and disciplines. sports facilities in the country, in addition to
theatres and museums.
10 | 11FOR VISIONARIES
Successful in Cottbus
ROOM FOR IDEAS
Ideas fall on fertile ground in Cottbus due
to the considerable science, education
and research potential. Here, a host
of establishments engage in research,
development, trade and production,
from basic research to final economic
Technology and Industry Park Cottbus application. The BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
is usually the first port of call for scientists
and researchers. Cooperations between
the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, research
institutions, the city and businesses,
initiated by EGC Wirtschaftsförderung
Cottbus, promote the development.
The Regional and Cottbus Business
Incubation Centre, to open in 2021www.egc-cottbus.de/en
ROOM IN COTTBUS
Industrial or commercial premises – west of the city centre. The Technologie- und
EGC Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus is Forschungszentrum Cottbus (TFZ –
the most important port of call when it Technology and Research Centre), established
comes to industrial property marketing in 2011 on the TIP premises, serves as an
and development. Its range of spaces and ‘incubator’ for the implementation of new
properties on offer is hugely varied, ensuring ideas and the development of new products.
the satisfactory fulfilment of the needs of From 2021, start-ups and entrepreneurs
businesses deciding to settle here. With with (high-)tech competences will moreover
the Technology and Industrial Park Cottbus be able to access 5,500 m² (59,200 sq ft)
(TIP), among others, the business location of offices and workshops at the Business
is growing to become Brandenburg’s Incubation Centre on the nearby BTU Cottbus-
largest contiguous industrial site in the best Senftenberg campus.
location: over 11,000 m2 (118,403 sq ft)
are earmarked for investors, entrepreneurs Businesses from the fields of energy
and start-ups. The TIP Cottbus is in technology, metal construction, logistics and
the direct vicinity of the BTU Cottbus- craft-based food production have already
Senftenberg and only 3 km (1.9 mi) north- settled in the area.
Site plan Technology and
Industry Park Cottbus
Available
Sold
Under negotiation
Technology and
Research Centre
By car only
min to the Technology
1
and Research Centre
3 min to the BTU Campus
3 min to the Business Incubation
Centre (opening in 2021)
5 min to the city centre
5 min to the main train station
14 min to the motorway junction
Last updated: January 2020 BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and
the future Business Incubation Centre
To be aquired at the TIP:
1,100,000 m
The importance of Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus
2 is huge as it’s not only responsible for the development
approx.
and marketing of the numerous industrial estates, but also for
(11,840,301 sq°ft) empty industrial premises,
stock development, acquisition of supra regional investments, the
800,000 m2 (8,611,128 sq°ft) of which contiguous
future management of the Business Incubation Centre and the
implementation of the now approved projects in the action field
approx. 250,000 m2 Economy of the ‘Digital City Cottbus’.
Holger Kelch
(2,690,978 sq°ft) free industrial properties incl.
buildings (hangars, accommodation, technical and Mayor of Cottbus
administrative buildings)
12 | 13FOR TEAM BUILDERS
Successful in Cottbus
Our company has since its establishment been closely cooperating
with the Brandenburg University of Technology. Our core competence is
the development and marketing of innovative, decentralised energy conversion
systems based on micro gas turbines. Since our establishment, we have been on
site at the Technology and Industrial Park Cottbus (TIP) and will in future expand
with the hands-on support of EGC Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus.
Sebastian Kießling,
Managing Director at Euro-K GmbH Cottbuswww.egc-cottbus.de/en
EGC SERVICES
EGC Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus creates International Partnerships
the necessary framework conditions and and ‘Looking Eastward’
supports investors, local businesses and
entrepreneurs fast and solution-oriented EGC Wirtschaftsförderung Cottbus
in a range of fields. is a reliable partner for international
cooperations and partnerships. The EGC
team includes staff from the Russian-
Settlement Management speaking region and other European
countries who facilitate the development
EGC supports investors in the new of international business contacts.
establishment or relocation of businesses,
develops specific site proposals and
individual offers. EGC is a reliable partner Integrated Support
in solving challenges during authorisation
Each business’s journey passes through
processes and other issues that need
many stages. Where desired, EGC acts as an
resolving with the city administration and
advisor, facilitator and partner from the start
other authorities.
and provides active and personal support:
• in modernisation, expansion, or relocation
Funding within the city area
• in organising the business succession
A host of funding programmes and
with individual solutions as needed
financing options are available for
• in the representation of interests in political
supporting businesses and entrepreneurs.
committees and towards institutions
EGC provides advice and contacts,
appropriate funding options and supports
you in making applications.
Skilled Personnel Consultancy
Committed, qualified employees are the
backbone of every business. Therefore
EGC’s services also includes help in the
search for suitable personnel – in close
cooperation with the Job Centre and Sehnsucht Cottbus
other service institutions and recruitment All begins with longing. The longing for home, family,
agencies. friends or the one true love.
Sehnsucht Cottbus is the returnee initiative organised
by the City of Cottbus, EGC Wirtschaftsförderung
Cottbus and other partners from the fields of
industry and administration that aims at supporting
the (re-)settlement of new and native citizens.
Intensive marketing is already having an effect and
attracts more and more newcomers and returnees
to Cottbus. The close networking collaboration
between the partners ensures a warm welcome and
support – free of charge and personal.
willkommen@cottbus.de
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denburg in the context of the joint task: “Verbesserung der regiona- rung Cottbus; S.4: ©Siemens AG/Martin Roehr, Heusch/Boesefeldt; S.10: Torsten
Arnold/©Siemens AG; S.11 und 12: Rainer Weisflog, weisflog.net; S.12: © GWC
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