Category: Business

The EIT Digital Challenge is Europe’s flagship Deep Tech competition for fast-growing digital scaleups, and a win represents a significant milestone for scaleups to grow and expand internationally. The challenge covers a wide variety of topics ranging from Digital Finance, Digital Tech, and Digital Wellbeing to Digital Cities and Digital Industry. Apply for the Challenge […]

The Fez Smart Factory Competitions, launched as part of the FSF Ecosystem led by EuroMed University of Fes (UEMF), Morocco, is a competition for companies to become part of an all-in-one support zone for innovative activities, aimed at developing a competitive industry by improving its productivity or developing new factories for innovative products. By implementing […]

ViennaUP is a decentralized, community-driven festival in the heart of Europe, shining a light on what the future of technology holds. The festival is curated by the Vienna Business Agency and brings you a selection of the most exciting events from the ViennaUP community. This year, together with several contributing partners, ViennaUP 2023 offers a […]

EIT Digital is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Co-funded by the European Union (EU), EIT Digital builds the next generation of digital ventures, products, and services. In less than a year, the EIT Digital Venture Program takes you from idea to investment. Starting with a brilliant […]

Russia announced earlier that it would agree to a 60-day extension, which is half the number of days agreed when it first expired in November. The UN-brokered deal also endorsed by Türkiye in Istanbul – which includes a Memorandum of Understanding between Russia and the UN to facilitate fertiliser exports – has allowed the exports of 24 […]

Pierre Vauthier is the chief of office for the FAO in Ukraine. He told UN News how the FAO team in the country – around 100 staff members, mostly Ukrainian specialists in agriculture-related areas – was dispersed throughout the country, in often difficult working conditions. “One of the difficulties we faced, once the war began, […]

The jobs gap for women is a “stubborn and damaging reality of the global labour market” but it is particularly worrying in developing countries, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said, with almost one in four women unable to find a job, compared with 16.6 per cent of men. ‘Bleaker picture’ That assessment is based on new data gathered from […]

The Fez Smart Factory (FSF) Competitions, launched as part of the FSF Ecosystem and led by the EuroMed University of Fes (UEMF), Morocco, is a competition for companies to become part of an all-in-one support zone for innovative activities. This competition is launched to improve industrial productivity and other KPIs or develop new factories for […]

On Monday at the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), a series of roundtable discussions saw global leaders, ci confront two of the most fundamental hurdles facing LDCs: how to make better use of science, technology and innovation (STI), and how to promote structural transformations that can help overcome the real impediments […]

“Countries with the least need support the most. And you need it now. You represent one in eight people on earth. But your countries are trapped in vicious cycles that make development difficult, if not impossible,” Mr. Guterres told the Summit of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), in Doha, Qatar Today’s Summit of Heads of State […]