Jean Monnet, one of the founding fathers of ever closer union in Europe, held the mantra that crises are opportunities. The coronavirus pandemic certainly falls into the...
Tag - Technology & Innovation
With over three billion people across the globe now in lockdown due to Covid-19, the world’s largest hackathon, The Global Hack, begins today, running until April 12...
A new report by the Open Data Institute (ODI) has outlined key findings into the language of European ‘smart cities’, concluding that there needs to be a shift towards...
Contrary to the media narrative across emerging Europe (and, indeed, much of the world), that coronavirus is the only story in town, there are still a number of major...
Like many small entertainment businesses all over the world, Purple Carrot Events, a Romanian outfit which hosts weekly English-language pub quizzes in the country’s...
By the middle of March, with the number of coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic creeping up and amidst surging public interest in how best to stay...
Born as part of Hack the Crisis, an event organised by Garage48 and Accelerate Estonia as part of Estonia’s start-ups’ plan to hack the Covid-19 crisis, chatbot Suve is...
Across Europe and much of the world, social and public life has ground to a halt as social distancing measures and curfews are enacted to help prevent the spread of the...
Hungarian energy giant MOL has started production of hand and surface sanitisers to offer protection against the coronavirus. Both products have been in short supply in...
With an increasing number of countries in Europe now locked down in order to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus epidemic, governments, institutions and the...
The Covid-19 pandemic has now swept through every country in Europe, causing many to close down schools and ban any public gatherings. But the sudden halt to public life...
“We are not a traditional government department,” says Ott Vatter, the managing director of Estonia’s enormously successful e-residency programme. One look at the...
The countries of Central and Eastern European countries are slowly embracing automation as a response to an aging population and shifting demographics. Over the past 15...
