Em­ploy­ment and econ­omy

The Ro­s­tock re­giopoli­tan re­gion...

… is the col­lec­tive liv­ing en­vi­ron­ment and sub­urbs of the city of Ro­s­tock (the re­giopo­lis) and the sur­round­ing (re­giopoli­tan) re­gion. Re­giopolises are large cities with pop­u­la­tions of more than 100,000, which have a far-reach­ing im­pact as promi­nent cen­tres for fi­nance, ed­u­ca­tion and cul­ture, and which are gen­er­ally lo­cated a long dis­tance from es­tab­lished me­trop­o­lises. They thus have the power to de­velop their own mo­men­tum. This gives rise to the par­tic­u­lar im­por­tance and re­spon­si­bil­ity of re­giopolises, most no­tably in their ca­pac­ity as dri­vers of de­vel­op­ment for the sur­round­ing, of­ten rural ar­eas out­side the met­ro­pol­i­tan re­gions. High­light­ing and cul­ti­vat­ing this im­por­tance for Ger­many’s de­vel­op­ment is one of the main goals of the Ger­man re­giopoli­tan net­work, whose found­ing mem­ber is the Ro­s­tock re­giopoli­tan re­gion. 

The ties and in­ter­de­pen­den­cies be­tween the re­giopo­lis and the Ro­s­tock re­giopoli­tan re­gion re­quire, and will con­tinue to re­quire, close co-op­er­a­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween all re­gional part­ners, mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties, as­so­ci­a­tions and busi­nesses in or­der to be suc­cess­ful na­tion­ally and in­ter­na­tion­ally as a col­lec­tive re­gion.

Ge­o­graph­i­cally, the re­giopoli­tan re­gion en­com­passes the Hanseatic and uni­ver­sity city of Ro­s­tock, the dis­trict of Ro­s­tock with its medium-sized towns of Bad Doberan, Güstrow and Teterow, and the medium-sized re­gion of Rib­nitz-Damgarten.