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Brain tissue from a petri dish
14-04-2017
The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of course, for ethical reasons, it is extremely difficult to do scientific experiments on it – ones that could help us to unde...
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Do you want your own 3D #SELFIE? Taking the next step in 3D body modelling
14-04-2017
Scientists at the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) are working on the next breakthrough in 3D scanning technology, and they need volunteers...
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Paladin Capital Group Joins with EIF and LFF to invest in EU Based Cyber Security Firms
13-04-2017
Paladin Capital Group is pleased to announce the initial closing of its European Cyber Fund based in Luxembourg, with commitments side-by-side from the European Investment Fund and Luxembourg Future F...
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LIST and Carlex to create the windshield of the future
12-04-2017
The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and Carlex, a high-end American automotive glass manufacturer operating in Grevenmacher, have announced the start of a promising new collabora...
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Motion-S develops GoodDrive application
12-04-2017
Automobility Cluster member Motion-S has developed the GoodDrive application, a new product from the insurance company La Bâloise. The application encourages young drivers to improve their skills and ...
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OHB Venture Capital and LuxSpace establishing company in Luxembourg to enable sustainable life in space
11-04-2017
OHB Venture Capital GmbH, Munich, and LuxSpace s.à r.l., Betzdorf, Luxembourg (both subsidiaries of OHB SE, Prime Standard, ISIN DE0005936124) have today announced the establishment of a company known...
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ESNC 2017 is looking for innovative satellite navigation applications
11-04-2017
The international contest annually awards the best services, products, and business ideas using satellite navigation in everyday life. Entries can be submitted until 30 June 2017. Ever since 2004, the...
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Ceratizit acquires majority share of Best Carbide Cutting Tools, LLC
11-04-2017
The carbide specialist CERATIZIT announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary CERATIZIT USA, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake of the Californian solid carbide round cutting tool ...
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Alexandre Tkatchenko wins prestigious ERC Grant
11-04-2017
Professor Alexandre Tkatchenko from the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit of the University of Luxembourg won a highly esteemed “Consolidator Grant” awarded by the European Research Council ...
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Luxembourg's e-Xstream wins Additive Manufacturing Innovation Award at JEC World 2017
11-04-2017
On March 15, 2017, Luxembourg based e-Xstream engineering, an MSC Software company, along with co-winners Solvay Engineering Plastics and Solvay Specialty Polymers were honoured with a JEC Innovation ...
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97% of Luxembourg Connected
11-04-2017
According to Statec’s ICT study, 97% of Luxembourgish households had internet access in 2016. In 2016, almost every home in Luxembourg (97%) had access to the internet. The few which did not either di...
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Luxembourg confirms its position as European leader in the field of digitalisation
11-04-2017
On the occasion of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Rome Treaty, the European Commission organised “Digital Day”. This was a high-level meeting on 23 March, 2017, in the Italian capital ...
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Luxembourg at the centre of a European network of supercomputers
11-04-2017
By 2018, Luxembourg will acquire an HPC (High Performance Computer) with the power of one petaflop per second, which corresponds to 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one thousand trillion) calculations per second.
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IBBL takes center stage in microbial sequencing
11-04-2017
Further to a successful follow-up audit, IBBL (Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg) becomes the first biobank worldwide to be accredited for the next-generation 16S rRNA gene sequencing, a cutting-edge m...
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Goodyear Unveils the Eagle 360 Urban, a Concept Tire powered by artificial intelligence
11-04-2017
Goodyear has revealed its long-term vision for future smart, connected tires. In an evolving mobility ecosystem defined by the transition to driverless vehicles and shared mobility in urban centers, G...
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EU and EEA Member States sign up for cross border experiments on cooperative, connected and automated mobility
11-04-2017
29 European countries, Members of the European Union and of the European Economic Area, have signed a Letter of Intent to intensify cooperation on testing of automated road transport in cross border t...
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The Faymonville Group acquires “Industrie COMETTO S.p.A.”
11-04-2017
Faymonville, the manufacturer of semi-trailers for the special haulage industry has reached an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of “lndustrie COMETTO S.p.A.” based in the North of Italy. With ...
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Spaceresources.lu cooperation between Luxembourg and the European Investment Bank
07-04-2017
The Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy and the European Investment Bank (EIB) today signed an Advisory Service Agreement in the context of Luxembourg’s SpaceResources.lu initiative. This initiative de...
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Index of Economic Freedom: Luxembourg increases its score
07-04-2017
The American ‘Heritage Foundation‘, in partnership with The Wall Street Journal, has published the 23rd edition of the ‘Index of Economic Freedom‘. Luxembourg comes in 14th pla...
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Amazon to create 15,000 jobs across Europe, including Luxembourg
07-04-2017
Amazon Luxembourg announced that the company will be recruiting hundreds of new positions in Luxembourg over the course of 2017, part of a pan-European expansion that should see some 15,000 new full-t...
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PM Bettel Launches Infrachain Initiative in Blockchain Area at LU-CIX Event
16-03-2017
On Wednesday 23 November, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister and Minister for Satte, Xavier Bettel, participated in the Luxembourg Internet Days 2016 organised by the Luxembourg Commercial Internet Exc...
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The European Commission opens a new in-house datacentre in Luxembourg
16-03-2017
European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Günther H. Oettinger, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Minister for Home Affairs, for the Civil Service and Administrative Refo...
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Vodafone and Technoport to set up an innovation center in Luxembourg
16-03-2017
On 14 December 2016, the Prime Minister and Minister of State, Xavier Bettel, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, announced the setting-up of a “Joint I...
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Talkwalker secures €5M funding from Main Mezzanine Capital
16-03-2017
Talkwalker, a major player in the social media analytics market, is pleased to announce it has secured €5 million in funding from leading Dutch software investor, Main Mezzanine Capital. The funding w...
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Luxembourg Pioneers Electronic Archiving Services in EU
16-03-2017
On 1 February 2017, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Etienne Schneider presented the first accredited certification body and first certified service provided in electronic archiving....
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APATEQ awarded Water Management Company of the Year by Texas Oil & Gas Awards
16-03-2017
Oil & Gas Awards announced its winners of the 2016 Texas Oil & Gas Awards with APATEQ being awarded Water Management Company of the Year. Companies were selected for their commitment to the ke...
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Presentation of strategic study on the "Third Industrial Revolution"
16-03-2017
Initiated by the Ministry of the Economy in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce and IMS (Inspiring More Sustainability) Luxembourg, the strategic study on the “Third Industrial Revolution...
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