(IN BRIEF) Connect Europe has responded to the EU’s Call for Evidence in support of a robust Digital Networks Act, urging radical deregulation, simplification, and harmonization to boost Europe’s digital competitiveness. Highlighting delayed full-fibre targets (2051) and lagging 5G rollout, … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, European Union, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, Telecom
Tagged 5G standalone, Alessandro Gropelli, B2B exclusion, CDNs, Connect Europe, deregulation, Digital Networks Act, DNA, EU governance, ex-ante control, ex-post oversight, full fibre target 2051, Gigabit Infrastructure Act, harmonisation, licence duration, national regulators, net neutrality update, peer review, same service same rules, simplification, spectrum policy
(IN BRIEF) SGS has been named to TIME’s 2025 list of the World’s Most Sustainable Companies for the second year running, topping the Testing, Inspection, and Certification category. Selected from over 5,000 firms, the 500 honorees were judged on a … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Business, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged 97% renewable electricity, Awards, corporate governance, environmental performance, Géraldine Picaud, leadership, net zero by 2050, s&p global sustainability yearbook, SBTi, science-based targets, SGS, social performance, Statista, Strategy 27, Sustainability Ranking, testing inspection certification, TIME World’s Most Sustainable Companies
(IN BRIEF) BBVA Research, ABN AMRO Bank, and BNP Paribas Fortis’ Prometis Lab have created a non-profit global network that transforms anonymized financial transactions into real-time, granular economic intelligence. Prioritizing openness, transparency, and collaboration, the platform will enable quicker and … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Financial, France, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, Netherlands, News, Spain, Technology
Tagged ABN AMRO Bank, anonymized data, BBVA Research, Big Data, BNP Paribas Fortis, financial transaction data, global research network, high granularity, IMF, non-profit platform, OECD, partnership, policymakers, Prometis Lab, real-time economic information, Scientific Council, seminars, societal benefit, Steering Committee, working groups, World Bank
(IN BRIEF) Empa, in partnership with ETH Zurich and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has developed a five-tier pyramid model to quantify energy supply security, addressing a longstanding gap in energy-system planning. Each tier—from self-production through complete autarky—provides quantitative indices that … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged autonomy, complete autarky, Empa, Empa Engineering Sciences, energy storage, energy supply security, energy trilemma, ETH Zurich, Georgios Mavromatidis, hydro reservoirs, iScience, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Matthias Sulzer, partnership, renewable energy, self-production, self-sufficiency, Switzerland 2050 scenario, system adequacy, thermal storage, vehicle batteries
(IN BRIEF) IKEA continues its long-standing commitment to making food an integral part of the store experience, blending Swedish roots with regional flavors at accessible prices. Ingka Group’s Food division, led by Lorena Lourido Gomez, highlights five “local hero” dishes—Belgian … Read the full press release
Posted in Apparel, Fashion & Beauty, Art & Culture, Business, Environment, Financial, Food & Beverage, Government, Industrial, Investment, Ireland, Management, Marketing, News, Retail, Technology
Tagged affordability, Älmhult, Belgian mussels, cultural identity, home-style dining, IKEA Food, Ingka Group, Ingvar Kamprad, local cuisine, Lorena Lourido Gomez, menu innovation, MSC certification, partnership, Pastel de Nata, plant-based baby Castella, Provençal lamb shank, sustainability, Swedish Meatballs, UK cooked breakfast, Zuidas
(IN BRIEF) Prosus has launched AI House Amsterdam, a campus-style hub embedded in its Zuidas headquarters, to bolster Europe’s transition from AI adopter to innovator. Backed by over $100 million in annual AI investments and partnerships with Techleap, AI on … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Education, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, Netherlands, News, Technology
Tagged AI education, AI events, AI House Amsterdam, AI on the Amstel, AI startups, Amsterdam Zuidas, dealroom.co, Europe AI powerhouse, Fabricio Bloisi, Innovation Hub, Jelle Prins, knowledge sharing, Maarten Cleeren, MLOps Community, Nxt Museum, Prosus, Prosus AI Marketplace, Prosus GenAI Fellowship, talent ecosystem, Techleap
(IN BRIEF) Prosus Ventures led part of a R$20 million (~$4 million USD) Series A round into Ursula, a Brazilian deep-tech company creating the “Artificial Life Engine.” Founded by an Emmy®-winning team from Pixar, Unity, Blizzard, and Google, Ursula’s platform … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Financial, Government, Industrial, Internet & Online, Investment, Management, Marketing, Netherlands, News, Technology
Tagged $4 million USD, AI Infrastructure, Artificial Life Engine, Betaworks, Brazil, deep tech, digital storytelling, emotionally aware AI, large language models, Latin America, long-term memory, Norte Ventures, partnership, Pedro Lucca, Prosus Ventures, R$20 million, symbolic AI, Thiago Viana, Ursula, user retention, Village Global, Worldbuild.VC
(IN BRIEF) Nagarro has entered into a strategic partnership with STACKIT, the GDPR-compliant, German-hosted cloud division of Schwarz Digits, to help organizations in retail and other regulated industries accelerate digital modernization while ensuring full European data protection compliance. The alliance … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology
Tagged Bernd Schulze, Bernie Wagner, cloud modernization, cloud-native technologies, data analytics, data sovereignty, DevOps enablement, digital transformation, GDPR Compliance, German-hosted infrastructure, Managed Services, Nagarro, partnership, regulated industries, retail, SAP S/4HANA migration, Schwarz Digits, Schwarz Group, Sovereign Cloud, STACKIT, sustainability
(IN BRIEF) Fresenius Kabi’s Santiago de Besteiros plant in Portugal has secured BSI Kitemark™ Certification for Minimized Risk of AMR in its Ceftriaxone production, confirming compliance with the AMR Industry Alliance’s Antibiotic Manufacturing Standard. Key measures include stringent controls to … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Germany, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Pharma & Biotech, Portugal, Science, Technology
Tagged AMR, AMR Industry Alliance, antibiotic efficacy, Antibiotic Manufacturing Standard, antimicrobial resistance, BSI Kitemark Certification, Ceftriaxone, Cristina Fernandes, EHS Management, emissions control, environmental protection, Fresenius Kabi, partnership, PORTUGAL, responsible pharmaceutical production, Santiago de Besteiros, sustainability, wastewater management, Zyad Hatquai
(IN BRIEF) At Luxembourg’s 2025 Pride Run, 475 EIB Group staff members participated—more than double the number from the previous year—demonstrating their strong support for LGBTIQ+ inclusion. Vice-President Robert de Groot emphasized the Bank’s ongoing commitment to European values of … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Luxembourg, Management, Marketing, Media, News, Society, Technology
Tagged 10 km run, 475 employees, 5 km run, DEI, diversity, EIB Group, equality, European Investment Bank, human rights, Inclusion, LGBTIQ, partnership, Pride Run Luxembourg, Robert de Groot, sustainable growth, United in Diversity, workplace culture
(IN BRIEF) At the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, “Duality of Skin and Core” demonstrates how LANXESS iron oxide pigments can transform 3D-printed concrete from uniform gray to vividly colored architectural elements. Developed by Eindhoven University of Technology with Vertico, the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Marketing, Netherlands, News, Technology
Tagged 3D concrete printing, additive manufacturing, Bayferrox, circular design, colored concrete, Colortherm, Cristina Nan, Duality of Skin and Core, Eindhoven University of Technology, iron oxide pigments, LANXESS, Mattia Zucco, modular construction, partnership, sustainable construction, TU Dresden, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, Vertico
(IN BRIEF) Henkel has implemented a mass balance approach to replace portions of fossil-derived materials with renewable raw materials in the production of its Bref toilet rim blocks across Europe. Working with partners Moeve and BASF, the company now uses … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Environment, Financial, Germany, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology
Tagged BASF, biobased feedstocks, Bref, CO₂ savings, Henkel, Marjon Stamsnijder, mass balance approach, Moeve, net-zero by 2045, partnership, recycled plastic, renewable raw materials, surfactant, sustainability, toilet rim blocks, upstream value chain
(IN BRIEF) At EMO 2025 in Hall 6 (Booth I46), Schaeffler is presenting new products tailored to the machine tool sector’s drive toward automation, digitalization and sustainability. Its KLLT four-row monorail systems handle substructure errors with minimal constraint, while the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Germany, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged 4 000 kN, 8–240 mm, AMOSIN, automation, ceramic rolling elements, digitalization, DKFLA, EMO 2025, Ewellix acquisition, false brinelling, Hall 6 Booth I46, KGT ball screws, KLLT four-row monorail guidance, linear motion, machine tools, PWG planetary screw drives, RGT ground roller screws, rotary tables, Schaeffler, sustainability, X arrangement, YRTA rotary bearings, YRTAG, YRTC series, YRTCG, ZKLF, ZKLN
(IN BRIEF) A June 2025 Forsa survey for Deutsche Post shows 65 percent of Germans prefer receiving traditional postcards over digital greetings, citing tangibility and personal effort. Three-quarters value that senders took the time to write; 69 percent see postcards … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Germany, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged 96 million postcards, Benjamin Rasch, Deutsche Post, digital vs. analog, Forsa survey, keepsakes, Museum for Communication Berlin, personal communication, postage rates, postcards, Postcrossing, tangibility, traditional mail, vacation greetings
(IN BRIEF) Exim Banca Romanească has joined the InvestEU Ukraine Export Credit Guarantee Facility, making Romania the tenth EU country to participate alongside nine others. The initiative, backed by the EIF within the EIB Group, provides guarantees to SMEs and … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, European Union, Financial, Government, Industrial, International Trade, Investment, Luxembourg, Management, Marketing, News, Romania, Technology, Transportation & Logistics, Ukraine
Tagged accession process, advanced technologies, construction materials, EIF, EU Single Market, European Commission, European Investment Bank, European Investment Fund, Exim Banca Romanească, export guarantees, InvestEU Ukraine Export Credit Guarantee Facility, machinery, Mid-Caps, Nadia Calviño, partnership, regional economic development, Romania, SMEs, Traian Halalai, Ukraine reconstruction, Valdis Dombrovskis, Yulia Svyrydenko, €300 million, €43.75 million
(IN BRIEF) Latvia’s finance institution Altum has signed up for the InvestEU Ukraine Export Credit Guarantee Facility, becoming the tenth EU country to do so alongside nine others. The facility, backed by the EIF and part of the EIB Group, … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, European Union, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Latvia, Luxembourg, Management, Marketing, News, Small Business, Technology, Ukraine
Tagged Altum, EIF, EU exports, EU Single Market, European Commission, European Investment Bank, European Investment Fund, export guarantees, InvestEU Ukraine Export Credit Guarantee Facility, Latvia, Mid-Caps, Nadia Calviño, partnership, Reinis Bērziņš, SMEs, sustainability, trade integration, Ukraine accession, Ukraine reconstruction, Valdis Dombrovskis, Yulia Svyrydenko, €300 million, €7.2 million
(IN BRIEF) The EIB and ICF have launched a €100 million loan—the initial tranche of a total €200 million facility—to finance sustainability-focused projects by Catalan SMEs. ICF will use these funds to underwrite investments in renewable energy systems, energy-efficiency retrofits, … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Luxembourg, Management, Marketing, News, Small Business, Spain, Technology
Tagged Climate Action, EIB, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, European Investment Bank, Gilles Badot, green transition, ICF, Institut Català de Finances, Mid-Caps, partnership, renewable energy, small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, Strategic Roadmap 2024–2027, sustainability, Vanessa Servera, waste management
(IN BRIEF) ZF’s new cubiX Tuner automates the calibration of multi-actuator chassis systems—brakes, steering, dampers, and drive—using AI-driven algorithms and an intuitive interface. Engineers input desired handling characteristics, and the tool automatically computes and writes tuning maps to the ECU, … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Financial, Germany, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology
Tagged AI algorithms, Android auto, Apple CarPlay, brand DNA, chassis calibration, Cloud Integration, cubiX Tuner, development acceleration, ECU tuning, Machine Learning, mobile app, multi-actuator control, PC version, software-defined vehicle, surrogate modeling, virtual validation, ZF
(IN BRIEF) ZF introduces a flexible Brake-by-Wire suite—purely electric (“dry”), purely hydraulic, or hybrid—that transforms braking with electronic actuation and software-defined control. Electric dry systems eliminate fluid drag and boost energy recovery; hybrid setups pair electromechanical rear axles with hydraulic … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Financial, Germany, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology
Tagged automated driving, BbW, Brake-by-Wire, chassis connectivity, drag torque, dry electro-mechanical brake, energy recuperation, hybrid brake system, IBC, Integrated Brake Control, Level 4 autonomous driving, Philippe Gasnier, software-defined braking, vehicle safety, ZF
(IN BRIEF) ZF will equip Mercedes-Benz with its steer-by-wire system in 2026, replacing the mechanical steering shaft with an electronic interface that enhances maneuverability, stability, and safety. The system’s software-controlled steering ratio adapts to driving conditions, while the Twin Worm … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Financial, Germany, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, News, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged active rear-axle steering, ASIL-D, autonomous driving, delivery vehicles, EasyTurn, electronic steering, Level 4 autonomy, Mercedes-Benz, partnership, software-defined steering, Steer-by-Wire, steering ratio, Torque Feedback, Twin Worm, urban mobility, vehicle agility, ZF
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