Regardless of whether it is a trade, trade, service, med/bio tech or digital start-up: at the free and compact after-work event START Rhein-Neckar you can ask the experts from the Chamber of Commerce and Crafts your questions about self-employment and starting a business , economic development agencies and banks in the region, deepen your knowledge in workshops and exchange ideas and network with other founders. Be there!

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Successful premiere as an after-work event with around 750 participants at START Rhein-Neckar 2023 in Heidelberg. “This is a success story made by Rhein-Neckar,” said Peter Johann, Managing Director of Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar GmbH, at the opening. The event for everyone who wants to successfully become self-employed will take place in Ludwigshafen in October 2024.

The START Rhein-Neckar program, the free after-work event for founders, start-ups, young entrepreneurs, the self-employed and companies, is now online at start-rhein-neckar.com.

The startup association reports a 16 percent increase in German startup founding activity compared to the previous year for the first half of 1 (report series “next Generation”, July 2023, 11.07.2023): Exactly the right time for START Rhein-Neckar. Preparations are in full swing here. 

"(...) The start-up scene is therefore given special support and promotion... and START Rhein-Neckar is particularly important in this respect," says Peter Johann, Managing Director of the Rhein-Neckar GmbH metropolitan region.