About Us
Region Mainfranken GmbH is the central platform for the development, marketing, and future viability of the Regiopolis Region Mainfranken around Würzburg and Schweinfurt. As a regional development company, we bring together the strengths of politics, science, and business to position the region nationally and internationally as an attractive place to do business and live.
Our tasks: promoting innovation, location marketing, securing skilled workers
We strengthen the business location by promoting innovation, run active location and skilled worker marketing, and are committed to sustainable development. The region’s economic and scientific strength is particularly evident in our five fields of expertise – from Mechanical Engineering & Automotive to Medicine & Health and IT & AI. Our free whitepapers provide in-depth analyses of the location.
career-mainfranken.com – your portal for living and working in Mainfranken
This page is part of a funded project to secure and attract skilled workers. We support companies in recruiting qualified skilled workers and provide useful information for everyone who wants to work and live in Mainfranken: from career opportunities with our Hidden Champions to practical tips for getting a fresh start in the region.
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Learn more about our work and the economic strengths of the Regiopolis Region Mainfranken at www.mainfranken.org.
What is a Regiopolis Region?
Mainfranken – Innovation, Quality of Life, and Strong Perspectives
Mainfranken is one of Germany’s highest-performing economic and living areas. The region combines innovative companies, excellent science, modern industry, international research, a high quality of life, and a unique cultural landscape. This combination makes Mainfranken an attractive location for companies, skilled professionals, students, founders, and families.
Whether working, studying, founding a business, or living – Mainfranken offers ideal conditions for people who want to shape the future.
Science and Research with International Appeal
With the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Mainfranken possesses two high-performing universities that are recognized far beyond the region. In addition, there are numerous research institutes as well as transfer and innovation centers that bring scientific findings directly into the economy.
This close connection between research and application strengthens the region’s competitiveness and makes Mainfranken an attractive location for skilled professionals, students, companies, and technology-oriented startups.
Working and Living in Mainfranken
Career and quality of life go hand in hand in Mainfranken. The region offers attractive employers, diverse career opportunities, and at the same time short distances, affordable housing, and a high quality of leisure and life.
Between vineyards, nature parks, and historic towns, there are numerous opportunities for recreation, sports, and culture. The Würzburg Residence as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, traditional wine festivals, cultural events, and a diverse gastronomic scene characterize the region just as much as modern leisure and family offerings. This mix makes Mainfranken a place where professional and private life can be excellently combined.
Networked Throughout the Entire Region
The strength of Mainfranken lies in the interplay of its cities and districts. Together with Schweinfurt, Kitzingen, Bad Kissingen, Haßberge, and the surrounding districts, Würzburg forms a closely networked economic, scientific, and living area.
Companies, universities, municipalities, and institutions work together regionally and across sectors. This creates strong networks, joint innovation projects, and new opportunities for companies, employees, and founders. This close cooperation makes Mainfranken a high-performance location for the future with great dynamism.
Best Accessibility in the Heart of Germany
Mainfranken benefits from its central location in Germany and Europe. Via the A3, A7, and A81 autobahns as well as the Würzburg ICE hub, the region is excellently connected to the most important economic centers. International airports such as Frankfurt and Nuremberg are quickly accessible and create optimal conditions for companies with national and international business relationships.
The excellent infrastructure facilitates the exchange of people, knowledge, and innovations and contributes significantly to the attractiveness of the location.
Mainfranken as a Regiopolis Region
The special strengths of Mainfranken are also reflected in its classification as a Regiopolis Region. This term describes regions that, due to their economic performance, scientific excellence, cultural significance, and infrastructural networking, take on important functions far beyond their borders.
Mainfranken fulfills these characteristics to a particularly high degree. The region combines economic strength with top scientific performance, high innovative power, and an excellent quality of life. At the same time, the close cooperation between companies, universities, municipalities, and regional networks continuously creates new impulses for innovation, securing skilled labor, and sustainable development.
This makes Mainfranken not only an attractive economic and living area but also a significant innovation location for Northern Bavaria and beyond. The designation Regiopolis Region underlines this special role and makes visible the appeal the region holds for business, science, society, and culture.
Regiopolis Region – Briefly Explained
A Regiopolis Region is a particularly high-performing economic, scientific, and living area with supra-regional importance. It is characterized by strong companies, excellent universities, innovative research, a high quality of life, and close networking between business, science, administration, and society. Mainfranken is a prime example of this interplay and is thus one of Germany’s leading innovation regions.
