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Joost Ortjens talks about Luxembourg’s automotive industry
12-04-2017
In an interview with Luxemburger Wort, Joost Ortjens, Head of Sector Development – Automotive at Luxinnovation, talked about opportunities and challenges for Luxembourg’s automotive sector. ...
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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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University achieves 11th place in young University rankings
12-04-2017
The University of Luxembourg improved its position in the 2017 issue of the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings reaching the eleventh place worldwide. The results were announced dur...
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New call for proposals "Cluster Go International"
11-04-2017
The European Commission has launched a new call for proposals to support cluster internationalisation. The objective of this action is to support cluster and business network collaborations across Eur...
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EO Browser officially launched at the World Cover conference
11-04-2017
A free satellite imagery visualization tool – EO Browser – provides immediate and full resolution insight into all European Space Agency (ESA) optical missions’ data – more tha...
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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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M-ERA.NET Call 2017 is open
11-04-2017
The aim is to fund ambitious transnational RTD (Research and Technological Development) projects addressing materials research and innovation including materials for low carbon energy technologies and...
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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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Automotive Business Night
11-04-2017
On March 23, 2017, the second edition of the Automotive Business Night was held. The Luxembourg Automotive Cluster (now Automobility) managed by Luxinnovation, had the pleasure of hosting active repre...
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Preparation of CLEPA strategic workshop “Road Transport 2030 – European suppliers’ scenarios”
11-04-2017
On March 30, 2017, the LAC (Luxembourg Automobility Cluster renamed from Automotive Components) along with ILEA (Association of Luxembourgish Automotive Suppliers) members met at FEDIL (Business Feder...
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2017 Luxembourg and Global Automotive Market Study
11-04-2017
KPMG Luxembourg hosted an automotive industry breakfast seminar on March 29, 2017 on the Plateau de Kirchberg to present KPMG’s Luxembourg Automotive Market Study 2017 as well as review KPMG’s Global ...
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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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Nomoko
28-03-2017
Nomoko has developed the world’s first compact gigapixel camera system and 3D reconstruction software. It is the combination of the best hardware and software that enables the creation of truly realistic 3D models of the world that the human eye can therefore not distinguish from reality.
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