Mannheim is the place where the very best get together: at scientific congresses and conferences at m:con Congress Center Rosengarten, Germany's largest regional consumer fair, the Mannheimer Maimarkt, and at events in the SAP Arena, Baden-Württemberg's largest multifunctional hall.
The city of Mannheim is listed in various rankings. These are a tool for ranking or atlas presentations of the quality and performance of cities and regions (based on the rankings). Rankings can be regarded as a simplified representation of complex interrelationships of municipal and social structures as well as of the performance and quality level of municipalities.
Mannheim's internationality is seen as a cultural heritage and is visible in Mannheim through a culturally diverse urban society. This diversity holds an enormous knowledge potential. Mannheim would therefore like to use this know-how to help shape the sustainable development of the city. A corresponding Urban Design Thinking Team Mannheim will develop ideas that will continue to make Mannheim an attractive place to live, work and work for its residents - wherever they come from.
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Basic ethical values do not stop at the EU's external borders. Since 2009, the Fairtrade Campaign, which campaigns for fair wages and working conditions in the countries of origin and production of the food and clothing consumed here on a daily basis, has been pointing this out. Fairtrade Towns promote Fair Trade and are the result of a successful network of people from civil society, politics and business who are committed to Fair Trade in their home countries.
The World Urban Forum (WUF) is an international conference of experts which was launched by the United Nations in 2001. The aim of this biennial meeting, organised by UN-Habitat, is to agree on one of the biggest issues of today's world: the ever-increasing urbanisation and its challenges.
The City of Mannheim also addresses the issue of public welfare in terms of the qualitative growth of the city. What is meant is an added value in social and economic up to con-sumethical matters, which can be measured by an increasing quality of life for the urban society. For example, Mannheim's eight strategic goals use alternative indicators to measure the well-being (also in terms of prosperity) of the population in addition to classic indicators such as gross domestic product. Among other things, the following are measured