THE EU TECH CHAMBER

Alex Agius Saliba

Interview With Alex Agius Saliba
Wars For Power, Problems And Crises

July 01, 2022

Wars for power in the world created problems of environmental pollution and energy crises. These problems along with resource allocation got increasingly international in scope. Those concerned with these issues must be aware of the efforts that are being done by others.

European Parliament

Henning Vom Stien

QUO Vadis Technology

July 01, 2022

‘We cannot know’, the experts say! We can have expectations about the solutions that different developments will lead to, but the outcome, due to the dynamics in combining these new evolutions, we cannot foresee as yet.

Florian Frhr. Von Tucher

EUTECH: Where We Stand And Where We Go

July 01, 2022

As this is the year’s last edition of Visions for Europe, it seems appropriate to review the progress made in 2022 and to look ahead to where we will be going in 2023.

EU Tech Chamber

Benedikt Grütz

The European Senate Of Economy & Technology

July 01, 2022

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, With the first publication of our new magazine, Visions for Europe, we officially confirm the December 2020 establishment of the European Senate of Economy and Technology. The idea of a neutral committee has existed since antiquity.

European Senate of Economy and Technology

René Haßfeld

Respect Who Thinks of the Future: Taking Responsibility and Promoting more Sustainable Competition in DIY Sector

July 01, 2022

Interview appointment toom Baumarkt - Renè Haßfeld   With more than 330 stores, 18,200 employees and revenue of 3.2 billion euros, toom is one of the leading players in the German DIY sector.

toom Baumarkt GmbH

Dr. Takahisa Karita

Five Keys To Achieving Growth Of The International Market In An Uncertain Era

July 01, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic began in December 2019 as a great threat to humankind, and the subsequent emergence of various coronavirus strains poses an unpredictable threat. Furthermore, the Ukraine crisis has forced the international community to undergo a drastic paradigm shift.

UNIFY PLATFORM AG

Paula Huerta Andres

Scaling Up Industrial Organic Waste Conversion Systems Through Insect Farming

July 01, 2022

Brief Description: In order to achieve the European Union’s Circular Economy targets, the E-28 need to put a big emphasis into Waste Management solutions, not only to reduce waste to landfill but also to create sustainable waste-to-value industries that help close the loop on our resources.

Dieter Schwindt

Building Sustainable Global Bridges: A Paradigm Shift in Technological Innovation

July 01, 2022

The year 2021 exposed in a burdensome way how much the world has grown together – and at the same time hasn’t: While some rich industrial nations had to dispose of massive unused doses of the new liquid gold – the SARSCoV-2 vaccines –, in many poorer countries there was and still is not only a shortage of vaccines, but also a fatal scarcity of protective gear like surgical masks.

Nathalie Kazzi

The Value of Strategic Investment in Modern Businesses

July 01, 2022

Present climate and strategic investment The recent pandemic has reset every traditional norm and belief about the nature of investing or just how businesses operate in general. The start-up investing ecosystem in Europe had to adapt with the ever-changing nature of the world.

Thomas Schield

Actual Challenges of Mankind & How to Solve Them with Sustainable Solutions

July 01, 2022

2021 – we live in quite challenging times and we are facing many different problems that need to be tackled. For more than 1.5 years, the whole world is suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic and although the likelihood of such a pandemic was predicted by health experts for more than a decade, we have not been prepared for it.

Edmond Grace

Technology for Democracy

July 01, 2022

The Conference on the Future of Europe was officially inaugurated on 9 May 2021. In their joint declaration, the three presidents of the EU-institutions spoke of ‘a citizens-focused, bottom-up exercise.

Prof. Dr. Andeas Dahmke & Dr. Sonke Bohm

Sponge Cities- New Trends to Cool European Cities

July 01, 2022

Abstract: Urban areas are both contributors to and the main victims of the effects of climate change and will be confronted with drastic changes in terms of heat supply (heating and cooling) and urban climate in the years to come.

Jörg Tuchen

Becoming Climate Neutral as a Company

July 01, 2022

Jörg Tuchen - Climate Action Commission   No other topic - including COVID-19 - has so much destructive power and polarises so many public and private debates as climate change. Often, half-knowledge and emotions dominate the discussion, while concrete and implementable ideas about what companies can do regarding the duopoly of ecology and economy are often missing.

Dr. Martin Maier

Ethics and Sustainability

July 01, 2022

We are living not only an epoch of change but a change of epoch. Digital and technological innovations are creating a huge range of new opportunities. Technology offers instruments to build a better world but it needs ethical parameters.

Dr. Ann-Kristin Iwersen

Sustainability Through Technology

July 01, 2022

Introduction The present is lavish with superlatives. That holds true not only for prestigious technological products and architectural constructions, but also for strategic political and commercial ambitions. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (or the correct translation: ‘One Belt, One Road’), more commonly known as The New Silk Road, is one; ‘Make America great again’, less subtle and with an entirely different approach, is another.

Filomena Von Zeipel

Education, Technology and Learning Equity

July 01, 2022

Scientific discoveries and the results of research related to the introduction of digital technology in schools have significantly affected teaching, learning, psychology, and pedagogy have forced educational institutions to adopt new teaching methods to be more innovative and responsive to better meet students’ needs.

Massimiliano Pesce

A Simple and Professional Approach to Securing Internet of Things

July 01, 2022

IoT security-by-design is still a major roadblock to massive IoT adoption. To fill the gap, we need distributed awareness and collective cooperation along with accessible knowledge and ready-to-use frameworks.

Efi Ben Artzy

How to Assess a Start-Up-Practical Tips for Amateur Angle Investor

July 01, 2022

Introduction Ideas dominate contemporary society. They feed our curiosity, govern our decisions, and fuel our increasingly knowledge-based economy. The startup world houses an industry of ideas, providing mankind with cutting-edge solutions to everyday problems.

David Ackerman

Migration to Industry 4.0- Digitilisation of the Operations First

July 01, 2022

  Advanced manufacturing or Industry 4.

Senator Torsten Klawunder

Biometric Face Recognition, the Perfect Task for Artificial Intelligence

July 01, 2022

  Over the years, artificial intelligence (AI) is a term which has become more and more popular in views of innovative software solutions for different areas of technology.

Andrè Godo

Digitalisation in Elderly Care

July 01, 2022

  Indifference or urgent necessity? If someone had told me 15 months ago that a newly founded professional league would ask me if I could provide them with my expertise in creating a hygiene concept, I would have declared them crazy.

Lin Kayser

Digital Manufacturing is Driving a New Industrial Revolution- Is Europe Falling Behind

July 01, 2022

The world of manufacturing is undergoing a fundamental transformation, quietly, and almost unnoticed. The result, however, will be dramatic. The way we design and produce physical objects will change more in the next 15 years than in the 100 years since the Industrial Revolution.

Benjamin Hellman

Collaboration in the New Normal

July 01, 2022

With increasing connectivity, collaborative tools are becoming more and more important for companies. The year 2020 has shown us that digital collaboration must work regardless of location. One comprehensive collaboration and project management software is sharesuite.

Alessandro Iacoponi

The Use of Data and IoT in Sport

July 01, 2022

  IT ALL STARTED WITH FORMULA 1 IN THE LATE ’70S   Formula 1 is largely, a data-driven business: This late ’70s photo shows a Formula 1 car (a Tyrrell F1) equipped with a cassette recorder.

Florian Frhr. Von Tucher

Virtual Tech Center

July 01, 2022

    We started an earlier article by going back in history to find the future: Venice 1505, and the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, the German Merchants’ Inn, gloriously restored on the Grand Canal, an arrow flight from the Rialto Bridge.

Florian Schreitter Ritter

‘That’s Why It’s Important to me to Rethink Education Entirely!’

July 01, 2022

Covid-19 and the climate crisis show that people ‘no longer understand the world’. After a human history that, despite many setbacks, was characterized by social and technical progress, we now stand either intelligently in despair or stupidly in denial of and watch the Amazon burning and the polar ice caps melting.

Sammi Fu Bo

EUTECH Center in China, The Right Partner for your Expansion in China

July 01, 2022

The idea and vision of EUTECH Center There are 4 elements you must always consider for significant growth, that is Innovation, Technology, Cooperation, and Sustainability. Living in the Pandemic, we have realized more than ever the importance of equipping yourself with a futuristic view for sustainable development.

Daniel Shmidlin

Management Development Becomes Global

July 01, 2022

1. Globalization - or not?      1.1     Factor 1: Economic framework Having contributed strongly to economic growth in the past decade, globalization has recently been viewed more critically again.

Ron Keller

China in Transition: The Challenges Ahead

July 01, 2022

Introduction China has always puzzled the world. And continues to do so, even though China has never opened up so much towards the global community as today. While in the past China’s mysteries were interesting for scientists, explorers and the odd travelling merchant, currently every citizen in the world wants and needs to understand China.

Patience Chindong

How to Engage Africa as an Emerging Market for EU Investors and Businesses

July 01, 2022

Reshaping business engagement – growing inclusive benefits with Africa The world goes round and round because of business-related migration and tourism for business owners, investors, and executives. These business migrations, however, had been dealt a blow due to travel restrictions and the rising spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, causing major global trade falls as well as stocks swinging on an opposite pendulum.

Alexandra Lybaert

Healthy Hydrogen for Achieving Half a Degree Less Warming

July 01, 2022

Fast soot reduction from household energy and transport globally should be our number one priority if we put public health and nature’s health at the core of our investment decisions.

Marcus Wiemann

Developing Fit for Purpose Tech Solutions to Empower Africa

July 01, 2022

Both, Europe and Africa, are confronted by numerous common deficits in these days and it will be important, that Africa gets better equipped with an adequate skill and tech set in order to grow its own role as a solution provider for its own concerns.

Javier Lopez

Shared Services in the EU Tech Center

July 01, 2022

As we have seen in previous articles, our Tech Centers are a new development which we at EU Tech Chamber are very excited about. The inspiration comes from the Hanseatic League which set up hubs around Europe for predominantly German merchants and traders to use as bases in the countries where they wanted to conduct business.

Sierra Frfr. Von Tucher

An Agreement for the Future

July 01, 2022

Globally the world has changed, especially when it comes to technology and whilst the ongoing pandemic may have accelerated the digitisation of customer and supply-chain interactions and internal operations by three to four years it’s not the only change happening.

Javier Lopez

European Involvement in Africa

July 01, 2022

  I’m sure millions shared my feeling of relief when Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on 20 January 2021.

Roland A. Jansen

Paradigm Shift in Feeding the World

July 01, 2022

Problem Definition: Food Supply Current mainstream farming methods result in the loss of fertile soil and biodiversity. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world could run out of topsoil in about 60 years if we continue to destroy the soil at current rates.

Emile Jimenez

Will Your Personal Digital Twin Have Human Rights

July 01, 2022

The start-up company Mind Bank AI, in synergy with organizations such as the EU Tech Chamber and the European Senate, is spearheading an initiative that proposes to extend the protection provided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to your Personal Digital Twin.

David Ackerman

Industry 4.0- The Human Factor

July 01, 2022

We are all in a rush to automate, autonomize and robotize every process within the shop-floor. This is happening day by day, and by no doubt, is a revolution that improves efficiency and productivity.

Rainer Bachmann

Visions for Europe: Grid Stabilization Based on E-Mobility V2G Technology

July 01, 2022

Renewable Energy Sources (RES) are expected to become the most relevant source of energy and will replace the carbon based energy. RES are usually being used to provide electrical energy, these only count for around 20% of the primary energy being utilized, the residual part is energy for heating and cooling, for the industry and for mobility purposes.

John Tidmarsh

Why Invest in Tech?

July 01, 2022

Do you remember Doc Emmett Brown’s flying DeLorean car in the 1989 film “Back to the Future II”? Doc, the time-travelling gray-haired inventor, puts food waste into what looks like a food mixer, the car takes off with Marty McFly and the good professor disappearing into the future… flying cars! Back then I would never have suspected that one day I would see one – I was all the more astounded to read that in 2021, according to TNMT, a little over 5 BILLION USD dollars have been invested in businesses developing flying taxi services.

Lars Gunnar Fledsberg

Gamification and Learning Based Games Spike Growth in a Global Market

July 01, 2022

The market for gamified learning experiences is in rapid growth. The digitalization of education has been in the crosshairs of many governments and organizations in more than a decade already, and the markets are still looking for new, better and innovative solutions to provide learning experiences fit for the twenty-first century.

Frank Scheelen

Leadership in Europe What Is Needed in the Future

July 01, 2022

  The secret of good leadership is very complex.

Dr. Halit Unver

The European Green Deal and Sustainable Business Growth

July 01, 2022

From the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has been influencing our lives, forcing the whole world to rethink and reset many aspects of the global economy and society. The World Economic forum speaks of the so-called ‘Great Reset’; which comes about five decades after the publication of ‘Limits to Growth’.

Franck Milet

Virtual Reality but Real Impact

July 01, 2022

What is Virtual Reality?     1.1 Definitions and principles There are various definitions of what Virtual Reality (VR) is. Different sources indicate that “Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world”.

Florian Frhr. Von Tucher

EU Tech Center China

July 01, 2022

Let’s start by going back to the future. It is Venice in 1505. A burnt-out ruin just a gondola ride down the Grand Canal from the Rialto Market and right next to the Rialto Bridge is the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, the German Merchants’ Inn.

Muhammad A. Sajid

How Does Design Work as a Catalyst for European Innovation

July 01, 2022

My purpose for writing about design and innovation in the context of technological development is mainly to portray the deep connection between the two. I am a young, ambitious designer myself, and what drives my motivation is my diversity in visualising, thinking and processing.

Sierra Frfr.Von Tucher

Europe Must Up its Game in the EUTECH Sector

July 01, 2022

Before the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, the digitisation of education was regarded as just a complimentary part of the modern classroom, whether that be digital whiteboards or the increasing use of computers as part of normal lessons.

Dr. Laura Bechthold

Female Empowerment in the Digital Age

July 01, 2022

SDG #5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls The words of UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #5 are easy to read. Since the peak of the #metoo movement at the latest, the zeitgeist of female empowerment is breezing through board rooms, parliaments and lecture halls around the world.

Dr. Matthias Ernst and Anna Tomfeah

Ethics Matters!

March 08, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us all what was already certain: We find ourselves no longer in the age of globalization, but have long since arrived in the age of globality.

Story maker GmbH

Dominika Osvald

Corporate Sustainability & ESG: shifts in 2021 and what companies can expect in 2022

March 07, 2022

There have been great strides in the field of corporate sustainability over the last 12 months, but more companies need to get a better grasp of this topic. Why? Because it’s going to have a tremendous impact on their business in the coming years as new regulations come into force and the demand for transparency increases.

SmartHead

René Haßfeld

Fit for Europe`s green future

February 24, 2022

Europe is heading for a global pioneering role in climate protection and has recently confirmed this with the ambitious goals of the European Union's Green Deal. In this concept, companies are seen as key players and drivers of change.

toom Baumarkt GmbH

Alexander Hernandez Muñoz

Interview with Alexander Hernandez Muñoz for SDG #9

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? At GLASST, we want to leave a positive footprint on the environment, to give the earth a second chance through new materials and sustainable processes that transform industries and have a favorable impact on people and their environment.

GLASST INNOVATION COMPAY

Kimani Gichuche

Interview with Kimani Gichuche for SDG #8

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? Adili Solar Hubs uses clean energy to deploy productive use of energy (PUE) solutions in the water and food sectors to elevate the economies of marginalized communities.

Adili Solar Hubs Limited

William Brent

Interview with William Brent for SDG #7

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? Husk has taken a 360 degree approach to innovation, looking at technology, business model and financing when determining how to best electrify communities in rural Africa and Asia that have never had an energy supply.

Husk Power Systems

Dr. Hamed Beheshti

Interview with Dr. Hamed Beheshti for SDG #6

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? At Boreal Light GmbH, we are dealing with the basics, with the very basics in which the healthy daily life of people is dependent upon.

Boreal Light GmbH

Volker Kunze

Interview with Volker Kunze for SDG #4

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? Our main focus areas are: Sustainability³ due to Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing with Digital Value Chains; (Spare) parts if required and predict & fulfils demand but also optimize costs, Sustainability in design by reducing material requirements, reducing size and weight, Sustainability in education through global online courses and training, xR (AR-VR) training at the moment of need, Sustainability in education through global online courses and training, xR (AR-VR) training at the moment of need.

Additive Minds Academy - A Brand of EOS

Raphael Schäfer

Interview with Raphael Schäfer for SDG #3

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? Intervivos' unique approach to achieving sustainable development is to provide responsible and equitable access to healthcare and wellness.

INTERVIVOS AG

Saed Harsini

Interview with Saed Harsini for SDG #2

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? According to figures released by the FAO, between 2018 and 2020, an average of 8.

Sarin Fam Sabz

Florence Akara

Interview with Florence Akara for SDG #5

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? Our solution, the Twende Initiative’s biggest customer value proposition is its ability to leverage on low-tech, already existing community systems, because after a decade of implementation and learning, it is clear that the move to digital technology is not very inclusive of particularly rural regions' in East Africa with a dire lack of resources or infrastructure to support that use of tech.

Femme International

Tanja Olbert

Interview with Tanja Olbert for SDG #17

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? From day 1 we developed the idea together on partnership with two non-profit organizations.

Allianz SE

Nikita Lukianets

Interview with Nikita Lukianets for SDG #16

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? AI regulation is necessary but not sufficient to address the sustainability crisis brought by the disruptive technology.

Open Ethics

Sascha Schwindt

Interview with Sascha Schwindt for SDG #15

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? Nanopool has succeeded in developing a technology that solves the central problems of our time without harming the environment.

Nanopool GmbH

Stephan Mangold

Interview with Stephan Mangold for SDG #14

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? The unique approach is to create a product that is multifunctional and therefore prevents more disposable products than others.

Unda GmbH

Jörg Tuchen

INTERVIEW WITH JÖRG TUCHEN SDG #13 WINNER

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? As a Climate Consultancy we support your company in showing your customers, investors & employees that you are taking sustainability seriously.

GO.BLUE.NOW

Mitchell Anderson

Interview with Mitchell Anderson for SDG #12

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) is a wonderful material which is strong, durable, and light.

Composite Recycling

Maarten Vandecruys

Interview with Maarten Vandecruys for SDG #11

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? At Urban Crop Solutions, our foremost mission is to contribute to making the world a better place for all those that live on it.

Urban Crop Solutions

Marcel Wroblewski

Interview with Marcel Wroblewski for SDG #10

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? We prioritize using our limited and most valuable resources: time and capital to increase life quality of people by decreasing poverty and preserving the beauty of nature, by implementing sustainable tech on large scale, ultimately shaping a world of resonance.

Kabena

Robert Zinser

INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT ZINSER FOR SDG #1

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company’s unique approach in integrating technology to achieve UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? The implementation and integration of technology in our projects helps us further our objectives to make progress in SDGs 3 and 5.

ROTARY ACTION GROUP FOR REPRODUCTIVE, MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH

Jörg Tuchen

The Link Between Climate Action and Technology – Go.Blue.Now ARTICLE

February 04, 2022

Q1. What was your company's unique approach in integrating technology to achieve your Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)? As a Climate Consultancy we support your company in showing your customers, investors & employees that you are taking sustainability seriously.

GO.BLUE.NOW

Florian Frhr. von Tucher

EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY CHAMBER: VIRTUAL TECH CENTER

January 31, 2022

We started an earlier article by going back in history to find the future: Venice 1505, and the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, the German Merchants’ Inn, gloriously restored on the Grand Canal, an arrow flight from the Rialto Bridge.

EU Tech Chamber

Florian Schreitter Ritter von Schwarzenfeld

INTERVIEW WITH FLORIAN SCHREITTER RITTER VON SCHWARZENFELD

January 31, 2022

Covid-19 and the climate crisis show that people ‘no longer understand the world’. After a human history that, despite many setbacks, was characterized by social and technical progress, we now stand either intelligently in despair or stupidly in denial of and watch the Amazon burning and the polar ice caps melting.

EU Tech Chamber

Irene Kilubi

INCREASING INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH START-UPS IN THE EU

January 31, 2022

Start-up companies have enormous potential to increase innovation and competitiveness in the national economy. Through effectiveness, they succeed in responding to existing needs on the market and serving new requirements through innovations.

EU Tech Chamber

Lin Kayser

DIGITAL MANUFACTURING IS DRIVING A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: IS EUROPE FALLING BEHIND?

January 31, 2022

The world of manufacturing is undergoing a fundamental transformation, quietly, and almost unnoticed. The result, however, will be dramatic. The way we design and produce physical objects will change more in the next 15 years than in the 100 years since the Industrial Revolution.

Hyperganic Group

Benjamin Hellmann

SHARESUITE COLLABORATION IS THE NEW NORMAL.

January 31, 2022

With increasing connectivity, collaborative tools are becoming more and more important for companies. The year 2020 has shown us that digital collaboration must work regardless of location. One comprehensive collaboration and project management software is sharesuite.

sharesuite GmbH

Alessandro Iacoponi

HOW DATA AND THE IOT ARE CHANGING SPORT IT ALL STARTED WITH FORMULA 1 IN THE LATE ’70S

January 31, 2022

Formula 1 is largely, a data-driven business: This late ’70s photo shows a Formula 1 car (a Tyrrell F1) equipped with a cassette recorder. Of course, we can say that the cassette was not intended to play the driver’s favourite songs during his race but had many other purposes, useful to the Formula 1 engineers.

IoT Alliance, EU Tech Chamber

David Ackermann

MIGRATION TO INDUSTRY 4.0 – DIGITALIZATION OF THE OPERATIONS FIRST

January 31, 2022

Advanced manufacturing or Industry 4.0 (I4.0) entails huge opportunity and anticipation. We are all fascinated by the new technologies that are showing more and more in the shopfloor as well as in our lives in general.

Briefery Ltd

André Godo

DIGITALISATION IN ELDERLY CARE

January 31, 2022

Indifference or urgent necessity? Foreword Andrè Godo has worked in the healthcare industry for over 20 years. He has extensive experience in the acquisition and valuation of full stationary nursing homes, the management of nursing facilities and the development of new real estate concepts.

Senioren & Pflegeheim Margarethenhof GmbH | European Senate of Economy and Technology

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING EQUITY

January 28, 2022

Scientific discoveries and the results of research related to the introduction of digital technology in schools have significantly affected teaching, learning, psychology, and pedagogy have forced educational institutions to adopt new teaching methods to be more innovative and responsive to better meet students’ needs.

Esybee AB

Efi Ben Artzy

HOW TO ASSESS A START-UP: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR AMATEUR ANGEL INVESTOR

January 28, 2022

Introduction Ideas dominate contemporary society. They feed our curiosity, govern our decisions, and fuel our increasingly knowledge-based economy. The startup world houses an industry of ideas, providing mankind with cutting-edge solutions to everyday problems.

Immersion VR

Dr Ann-Kristin Iwersen

HOW EUROPE SHOULD LEAD THE CHANGE FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD THOUGH TECHNOLOGY

January 28, 2022

BACKGROUND The present is lavish with superlatives. That holds true not only for prestigious technological products and architectural constructions, but also for strategic political and commercial ambitions. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (or the correct translation: ‘One Belt, One Road’), more commonly known as The New Silk Road, is one; ‘Make America great again’, less subtle and with an entirely different approach, is another.

RT DE Productions GmbH

Dr. Martin Maier SJ

THE COMBINATION OF ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY

January 28, 2022

We are living not only an epoch of change but a change of epoch. Digital and technological innovations are creating a huge range of new opportunities. Technology offers instruments to build a better world but it needs ethical parameters.

Ethics & SDG Commission - EU Tech Chamber

Dr. Laura Bechthold

FEMALE EMPOWERMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: FIVE STARTING POINTS

January 28, 2022

BACKGROUND Dr. Laura Bechthold is a social scientist and innovation professional from Munich. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrichshafen Institute for Family Entrepreneurship at Zeppelin University, she works on questions regarding responsibility and decision paradigms of family entrepreneurs.

Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen

Prof. Dr. Andreas Dahmke

THERMAL SPONGE CITIES NEW TRENDS TO COOL EUROPEAN CITIES

January 28, 2022

Abstract: Urban areas are both contributors to and the main victims of the effects of climate change and will be confronted with drastic changes in terms of heat supply (heating and cooling) and urban climate in the years to come.

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Institut für Geowissenschaften Kompetenzzentrum Geo-Energie

SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

January 28, 2022

Sustainability is an incredibly broad and popular term in our modern, developed society that encompasses everything from people to nature and, generally, rethinking the way we approach current procedures. It is somewhat difficult to pinpoint where to begin, what to look for and how to navigate through the various complexities that make up sustainability.

SMART CITIES Alliance

Jörg Tuchen

FIVE CONVINCING REASONS FOR YOUR COMPANY TO PROTECT THE CLIMATE

January 28, 2022

INTRODUCTION No other topic - including COVID-19 - has so much destructive power and polarises so many public and private debates as climate change. Often, half-knowledge and emotions dominate the discussion, while concrete and implementable ideas about what companies can do regarding the duopoly of ecology and economy are often missing.

Climate Action Alliance

Nathalie Kazzi

THE VALUE OF STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN MODERN BUSINESSES

January 27, 2022

Present climate and strategic investment The recent pandemic has reset every traditional norm and belief about the nature of investing or just how businesses operate in general. The start-up investing ecosystem in Europe had to adapt with the ever-changing nature of the world.

Blue Tree Advisors

Edmond Grace

TECHNOLOGY FOR DEMOCRACY

January 27, 2022

The Conference on the Future of Europe was officially inaugurated on 9 May 2021. In their joint declaration, the three presidents of the EU-institutions spoke of ‘a citizens-focused, bottom-up exercise.

Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC)