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Jemmic & Trust1Connector – Simplicity is Key
04-01-2018
Jemmic is a Luxembourg company established in 2009 that helps companies digitalise their business. As a FinTech expert, Jemmic serves over thirty banks with over one million online users – be it...
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Tetrao wins BNP Paribas Hackathon
04-01-2018
From 9 to 11 June 2017, BNP Paribas in Luxembourg took part for the first time in the International Hackathon organised worldwide by the BNP Paribas Group and running simultaneously with 160 start-ups...
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2017 SPACENEWS AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE & INNOVATION
20-12-2017
A member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party would seem to be an unlikely champion of asteroid mining ventures. But Étienne Schneider, who represents his party in Luxembourg’s coalition governm...
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Japanese pharma company JCR to set up a manufacturing plant in Luxembourg
19-12-2017
JCR Pharmaceuticals, a Japanese public company engaged in research, development, manufacture and sales of pharmaceuticals, has chosen Luxembourg to set up a new manufacturing plant of Active Pharmaceu...
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Molecular Plasma Group – A successful start facilitated by Luxembourg’s eco-system
14-12-2017
On December 4, 2017, the newly created MPG (Molecular Plasma Group) invited upwards of 70 representatives of the Luxembourg materials industry to an Open House. The occasion was officially to celebrat...
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New ArcelorMittal HQ coming to Kirchberg
13-12-2017
ArcelorMittal has announced its plans to build a new global headquarter in Luxembourg. The new building will be located near the Philharmonie and is set to be completed by 2021.
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Google deal one step closer
12-12-2017
Google Europe confirmed on Monday to have secured 33.7 hectares of land in the Bissen Commune in Luxembourg. Google plans to continue to expand their data center presence in Europe.
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The Breadwinner gets Golden Globe nomination
12-12-2017
The Breadwinner, a Canada-Ireland-Luxembourg co-production, has been nominated for the 75th Golden Globes Awards. The Luxembourg production company Melusine Productions, specialised in animated movies and documentaries, was involved in the project.
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Luxembourg has highest share of population with at least basic digital skills in EU
08-12-2017
The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) is a composite index that summarises some 30 relevant indicators on Europe’s digital performance and tracks the evolution of EU Member States, across five ...
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Étienne Schneider – one of Politico Europe 28 people shaping, shaking and stirring Europe
07-12-2017
Politico* Europe is a very well respected Brussels-based European affairs weekly newspaper. This is the third instalment of their guide to the people to watch in the year ahead: 18 men and 10 women fr...
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New brochure: Ten good reasons to choose Luxembourg
05-12-2017
Luxembourg is an excellent location for any company looking to launch or scale up its business. Luxinnovation’s new brochure “Ten good reasons to choose Luxembourg” highlights some of the main advanta...
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State visit to Japan: several agreements have been signed
01-12-2017
Late November, HRH the Grand Duke and the Princess Alexandra accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy Etienne Schneider, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Jean Asselborn...
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Guala closures
01-12-2017
Guala Closures is a success story for Luxembourg. Its new technological research centre opened recently, coupled with the company’s open innovation attitude, could prove quite significant for Luxembou...
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Sompo becomes third japanese insurer to set up EU base in Luxembourg
30-11-2017
Japanese insurer, Sompo International, has today become the latest leading Japanese financial institution to announce plans to establish its new European insurance headquarters in Luxembourg following...
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Luxembourg and Japan agree to cooperate on exploration and commercial utilization of space resources
29-11-2017
Luxembourg, November 29, 2017 - The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, represented by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, and the Cabinet Office of Japan, represented by Masaji Matsuyama, Minister of State for Space Policy, signed today in Tokyo a memorandum of cooperation on exploration and commercial utilization of space resources.
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Luxembourg and Japan Agree to Cooperate on Exploration and Commercial Utilization of Space Resources
29-11-2017
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, and Masaji Matsuyama, Minister of State for Space Policy of Japan, signed a memorandum of cooperation on exploration and commercial utilization of space resources.
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Luxembourg ranks 10th in attracting and keeping talent
27-11-2017
Each year, the World Talent Report, produced by the Institute for Management Development (IMD) with the help of the Chamber of Commerce in Luxemburg case, estimates countries’ capacity to attract and ...
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ICT development index in 2017: Luxembourg comes 9th in the world ranking
23-11-2017
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a specialised United Nations institution which has just published the 9th edition of the annual report‘Measuring the Information Society‘...
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Luxaviation Group enters US FBO market by joining forces with The Paragon Network
22-11-2017
Luxaviation Group, the world’s second largest private aviation company, is today announcing a strategic collaboration with Paragon Aviation GroupTM, the US facilitator of The Paragon NetworkTM, creating a new network of 52 Fixed Based Operators (FBOs) around the world, of which 25 are in the US.
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New brochure featuring Luxembourg as a logistics hub
22-11-2017
Over the past decade, Luxembourg has continuously improved its positioning as an intercontinental and multimodal logistics hub in Europe for value-added logistics activities. The efforts of the countr...
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Japanese Insurer Sompo sets up new EU HQ in Luxembourg
21-11-2017
Sompo International will further enrich Luxembourg's financial services ecosystem already composed of six leading Japanese banks and now the three Japanese Mega-Insurers.
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The Fintech Hotline, a simple solution to a common problem
16-11-2017
The LHoFT Foundation is launching the “Fintech Hotline” to meet the needs of the Fintech startups: "One question - One answer - One immediate solution". The first Hotline session will take place on November 23 and will focus on how to set up a company in Luxembourg.
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Luxembourg Government and Spire Global signed cooperation agreement to open a European HQ in the Grand Duchy
16-11-2017
Spire Global announced today that it is continuing its global expansion with the opening of the new Luxembourg office and a closing of its Series C. The Luxembourg Future Fund (LFF) has committed toda...
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Luxembourg Government and Spire Global signed cooperation agreement to open a European HQ in the Grand Duchy
15-11-2017
The Luxembourg Government and Spire Global signed a cooperation agreement to develop, through the opening of a European HQ, several key activities in the Grand Duchy focused on space platform engineering, data analytics, infrastructure engineering and business development.
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Former Director of Partnerships at NASA Ames Joins the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy
14-11-2017
The Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy today announced that Mr. Gary Martin, former Director of Partnerships at NASA Ames, recently joined its Space Affairs Department. As an independent advisor, Gary Martin assists the Directorate-General for Research, Intellectual Property and New Technologies, in charge of Space Affairs.
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Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider talked about the space industry at the New Worlds conference in Austin, Texas
14-11-2017
Luxembourg now generates nearly 2 percent of its annual gross domestic product from the space industry, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy Etienne Schneider told an audience Saturday, in a speech at the New Worlds conference in Austin, Texas.
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Innovative materials for tomorrow’s economy
13-11-2017
For two days, Luxembourg hosted the sixth edition of the world Summit for Materials. Organised by The Economist magazine, with the support of Luxinnovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technol...
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The space industry is now 2% of Luxembourg’s GDP
13-11-2017
Luxembourg now generates nearly 2 percent of its annual gross domestic product from the space industry, according to Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider.
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BS Innoclean: Revolutionary cleaning
10-11-2017
BS Innoclean, a specialist in the cleaning and treatment of industrial surfaces, is a start-up very much in keeping with the times. Established at the end of 2014, and installed at Technoport incubato...
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Doctena pursues its international expansion
10-11-2017
Doctena, the Luxembourg-based online platform for booking medical appointments, announced in early November, 2017 its acquisition of the Austrian leader in the field, Mednanny.com. This represents a n...
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