More and more zero-waste shops and eateries like “In Guter Gesellschaft” on Hamburg’s Sternschanze are catering to people keen on sustainable lifestyles. There, food is bought and sold entirely free of pa…

Around 19 so-called proptechs or fledgling start-up are aiming to turn the property market digital, according to a “2019 Comdirect study”:https://www.der-bank-blog.de/hamburg-fintech-2019/studien/37659047/). The city of Hamb…

The Ministry of Science, Research and Equality (BWFG) has approved EUR 1.8 million in funds for 18 new research projects respectively, a press release said Tuesday (January 28, 2020)…

E-scooters, designed to make traffic in cities calmer, faster and environment friendlier are collected at night and loaded onto diesel-powered trucks over Hamburg, which is not in keeping with climate protecti…

Everything is becoming different as the world changes driven by technological, economic and cultural developments. The Hamburg-based data website Statista has identified the most important…

Hamburg is injecting EUR 520,000 per annum in the gaming industry from 2020 to 2023. The gamecity:Hamburg will advise and handle the new funding for the sector. The s…

Impact-orientated companies, for instance, Viva Con Aqua and Lemonaid, that strive to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined by the United Nations, through their business id…

Die Hamburger Visable GmbH, die übergeordnete Unternehmensmarke des B2B-Marktplatzes Wer liefert was und der eu…

Residents of Hamburg, who rented green kayaks free of charge at six different paddle stations, have hauled 3,166 kg of waste out of waterways. The kayaks were booked 936 times on condition that kayakers clear the waterways of …

Around 50 per cent of 10 million disabled people across Germany would like to go on holiday preferably in their own country, often in the same place and rarely alone. However, the potential of b…

Young Talents Hamburg is hosting career guidance events including workshops and lectures during the so-called “Find Your Perspective” day on January 18, 2020 followed by the *“Day of Flying” on Fe…

Visable GmbH, the operator of the B2B websites Wer liefert was and Europages, earned a record EUR 55 million in turnover and achieved growth of around 10 per cent in 2019, the company said Tuesda…

Passenger numbers at Hamburg Airport remained stable in 2019 and there were 42 per cent fewer delays between 11 pm and midnight than in 2018, the airport announced on Friday (January 3, 2020). The year was marked by a difficult m…

Around 1,700 guests are expected at the Pottkieker cooking festival, the biggest in “northern Germany”, on March 29, 2020. Ten top chefs from the Hamburg Metropolitan Region will give dem…

The Hamburg exhibition halls are set to become a hotspot of camping enthusiasts from February 5-9, 2020. This comes amid the ongoing popularity of camping and caravanning and as the number of overnight …

The number of overnight guests in Hamburg last year is expected to exceed the 15 million-mark for the 19th consecutive time while overnight stays grew 5.9 per cent to some 13 million in late October. More than&nb…

Twenty national and international experts cited interactive video formats, blockchain and artificial intelligence as the likely trends in media and digital banking this year in interviews with nextmedia.Hamb…

Hamburg will become one of the first German states to introduce third-level midwifery courses when the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hamburg and the Hamburg University of Applied Scien…

Two out of three German companies use 3D printing for their production, according to a survey conducted by the Ernest & Young management consultancy last autumn. EY interviewed 222 com…

Hamburg Airport is launching the “Offset locally – plant a future together” initiative giving passengers an opportunity to offset their carbon footprint, a press release said Wednesday (December 18, 2020). Passengers can offset their …

An idea can gain momentum when someone like Greta Thunberg is behind it. Just a year after beginning her school strike for clim…

Hamburg’s first unpackaged shop called Stückgut has been operating an entirely different concept successfully since 2016. Food, hygiene products and cleansing agents are sold entirely without packaging –…

The global shipping industry presented a proposal Tuesday (December 17, 2019) to set up its own global research and development fund to the tune of USD 5 billion (EUR 4.49 billion) over…

Hamburg will host the all about automation from January 15 to 16, 2020. Component and system manufacturers, distributors, dealers and service providers will present their products …

Around 3,800 people will have gained further qualifications as well as valuable career and leadership skills through scholarships, workshops, advisory services, coaching and networking events when Pro Exzellenzia 4.0, Hambur…

Clean Logistics has received a grant of EUR 3.3 million from the German Ministry of Transport to convert heavy diesel trucks to run on hydrogen hybrid drive in future…

The Hamburg-based grocery store chain, Edeka and its discounter Netto, will issue mandatory receipts on blue-grey thermal paper to comply with a new law effective from January 1, 20…

Violence is not their thing. Natalie Richter and Mar Navajas Garcia, the founders of Terrorists of Beauty, see their provocative company name as a kind of communication strategy: “We do…

Michael Westhagemann, Senator for Economics, discussed key, forward-looking issues facing industry particularly in east Hamburg at a meeting of the Billbrookkreis association on December …

Hamburg will host the all about automation from January 15 to 16, 2020. Component and system manufacturers, distributors, dealers and service providers will present their products …