The NRW-USA Year 2023/2024 was the focus of the summer festival hosted by the NRW State Representation in Berlin — and with it, the transatlantic relations between the federal state and the United States. Around 1,500 guests from politics, business, and media gathered to exchange views on current topics and developments in North Rhine-Westphalia and to celebrate the decades-long cultivated relationship between NRW and the USA. Münsterland e.V. was also present as one of the nine regional development organizations of the association regionen.NRW.

The guests discussed current issues, talked about the important transatlantic ties, and sampled typical American foods and beverages. At the NRW regions’ booth, visitors could experience the diversity of NRW through gins and cocktails from special local producers and manufacturers from the nine regions. An exhibition with historic steles also highlighted economic, political, and socially significant moments of friendship between NRW and the USA.

The idea behind the joint presentation of the nine regions under the title “regionen.NRW” is to position themselves collectively towards the state government. The association has existed since 2013 and includes the Zukunftsagentur Rheinisches Revier as well as the nine regional management organizations: Region Aachen – Zweckverband, Bergische Struktur- und Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft mbH, Regionalmanagement Düsseldorf/Kreis Mettmann, Region Köln/Bonn e.V., Münsterland e.V., Standort Niederrhein GmbH, OstWestfalenLippe GmbH, Regionalverband Ruhr, and Südwestfalen Agentur GmbH.