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Bottrop as a place to do business has a very attractive location on the fringes of one of Europe’s largest economic clusters. The city’s economic structure is extremely diverse and mainly made up of SMEs, with one out of two people working in the service sector industry. While mining still plays an important role, its significance for the Bottrop economy is slowly declining.

Economy

Bottrop as a place to do business has a very attractive location on the fringes of one of Europe's largest economic clusters. The city's economic structure is extremely diverse and mainly made up of SMEs, with one out of two people working in the service sector industry. While mining still plays an important role, its significance for the Bottrop economy is slowly declining.

"Hochschule Ruhr West" - the new university of applied sciences

At the new Hochschule Ruhr West (HRW) students will be able to take courses in Mechanical Engineering (Mülheim), Energy Systems and Energy Industry (Bottrop), starting in the winter semester 2009/ 10 for the first time. This is exactly the appropriate place for the curious, talented and ambitious who are interested in natural sciences and engineering.