“Since the surveys began in 1999, there have never been so many people in work in the region,” says Peter Weißler, Head of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens Employment Agency. Following the slight decline in February, the number of unemployed people fell once again in March. The number of job vacancies in the region remained at a high level.

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Kaiserslautern is one of twelve model municipalities in a new nationwide research project by the German Institute of Urban Affairs (difu). The project, which is funded by the Mercator Foundation, is entitled “Shaping arrival districts – paths to socio-spatial integration” and supports municipalities in strengthening social cohesion locally.

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Never before – at least since data collection began – have so many people visited Kaiserslautern and stayed overnight here as in 2023: The city recorded 332,991 overnight stays and 142,303 guests, which is 14.7 percent more overnight stays and even 17.1 percent more guests than in the peak year of 2019.

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For its project “MINT-Mach-Pass”, the Landau Centre for Education and Research at Extracurricular Learning Venues “ZentrAL” has achieved first place in the “LeLa Prize” of the Federal Association of School Laboratories “Lernort Labor” (LeLa). The prize is awarded for outstanding achievements and merits of school laboratories and school laboratory networks.

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Since 2008, the research initiative of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate has been supporting the four state universities and the seven state universities of applied sciences. These funds are available to the universities in addition to the basic funding for their research profiles.

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