Evil witches beware! The end is nigh and defeat is certain by the time the first visitors have ended their interactive tour of the new 3,000 square metre Märchenwelten, which opens Saturday (September 14,2019) in Baakenhafen. …
Interactive "Märchenwelten" to open in HafenCity
Summit to focus on key future issues in city and global trends
The annual meeting of Hamburg’s ten external representatives gets underway Wednesday through September 12, 2019. This year, the focus will be on mobility of the future as Hamburg gears up to host the ITS Wor…
Congress helps wide range of companies to manage digital change
Experts and managers will meet for Solutions.Hamburg from September 11-13, 2019 in Hamburg’s Kulturfabrik Kampnagel. Around 100 partners, 500 speakers and 6,000 delegates are expected at the congress focusing on digi…
Conference to highlight global, local, technological, entrepreneurial and scientific dimensions
The NEXT19 digital conference underway from September 19-20, 2019 as part of Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival will bring around 1,5000 digital decision-makers, marketing executives, IT &a…
Diakonie Hamburg backs alliance for improved nursing - over 80 institutions join
The Diakonisches Werk Hamburg presented Cornelia Prüfer-Stocks, Senator for Health, with 87 membership declarations Tuesday (August 27, 2019) of the “Alliance for Care” launched by the German Health …
Recycled plastic goes digital with Cirplus - 30 global firms in pilot project
A digital online market for recyclates, set up by the Hamburg-based Cirplus start-up, is growing in popularity after 90 companies from 15 countries enquired about several ten thousand ton…
EUR 450,000 set aside for climate protection initiatives and projects
Hamburg’s Ministry for the Environment has set aside EUR 450,000 to fund local environment protection measures by 2020. The grant, dubbed #moinzukunft-Klimafonds, will make funds available f…
Hydrogen key, future technology - decision on electrolysis plant before close of 2019
A decision on building the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts in the Port of Hamburg will be made before the close of 2019, Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa …
Female entrepreneurs wanted - university career centre encouraging entrepreneurship
Women are behind just 15 per cent of all start-ups in Germany, according to the “Deutsche Startup Monitor 2018”, which analysed 1,550 start-ups and found a rise in the number of female entrepreneu…
Research into new ULTRASAT satellite planned - one of several projects
Closer co-operation on research projects in particle physics have been agreed during a trip by a delegation to Tel Aviv (September 3-6, 2019). Efforts will focus on e.g. the search for dark matter an…
Industry to become role model for energy transition
Switching to renewable energies is proving a challenge even though the process has already begun. The German government confirmed its goal of reducing dangerous emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030 and 70 per cent by 2040 i…
Delegates from 79 nations expected at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER)
Around 3,000 delegates from 79 countries are expected at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) from September 3-9, 2019 to discuss education in an era of risk hosted by the&n…
Five European start-ups in music industry get backing
Five international start-ups focusing on blockchain, augmented reality and gamification entered Monday (August 26th) the three-month Music WorX Accelerator 2019. The support programme, run by the Minis…
Hamburg-based acCELLerate develops gentler method of freezing cells
Sales of acCELLerate’s new Assay Ready kits are going well in Europe and the United States. However, this success was preceded by a risky project backed by IFB Hamburg and a positive outcome was by…
Closer ties sought - emphasis on urban development, science and commerce
Dr. Peter Tschentscher, Mayor of Hamburg, began a three-day visit to Shanghai Sunday (August 25-27, 2019) accompanied by a 50-strong delegation of representatives from politics, business, science and culture…
New centre (HAIH) holds great potential, says Fegebank
Hamburg’s first corporate network for promoting artificial intelligence in medicine, the “Health AI Hub Hamburg (HAIH)“, began operations Wednesday (August 28, 2019) following a ceremony attended by Katharina Fegebank, Deputy…
Latest season features seven-strong, biggest ever den - and Nils Glagau
The sixth season of VOX TV’s “The Lion’s Den” (DHDL) goes on air Tuesday (September 3, 2019) featuring eleven episodes. This comes after a record 3.04 million viewers tuned into the final …
Project to enable documentation, analysis and mobility in co-operation with Wunder Mobility
The Hanseatic city and Wunder Mobility are launching a unique platform to make new mobility offers more transparent marking a first in Germany. This comes amid the rising importance of sus…
AI-assisted candidate screening proving double-edged sword, says Professor David Scheffer
The use of artificial intelligence is still in the early stages and gradually spreading to diverse fields of application including personnel recruitment. Professor David Scheffer of Nordakad…
Food start-up better known after appearance on "The Lion's Den" show
The Hanover-based cable and satellite-shopping network Channel 21 has bought Hamburg’s Veluvia start-up for an undisclosed sum. Veluvia sells dietary supplements based on superfoods and made headlines through it…
Senate to develop climate protection strategy with concrete measures by end of 2019
The Hamburg senate has agreed on guidelines and measures to reduce CO2 emissions by 55 per cent before 2030 over levels in 1990 as part of a new climate protection strategy. Hamburg remains commit…
Ambassador of SDGs highlights potential of blockchain for sustainable development
This year’s Earth Overshoot Day, the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources, occurred on July 29, 2019 and earlier…
Media and transport experts focus on content over next five to 15 years
Teams participating in the “Content Foresight Mobility” project will present their results in HafenCity on September 5, 2019. The Cross Innovation Hub and nextMedia.Hamburg, both initiatives of the Hamburg Kr…
Linking online and offline business - lessons from first Hamburg Trade Congress
Experts in retail, the property sector, logistics and politics gathered Wednesday (August 21, 2019) at the first Trade Congress in the Chamber of Commerce to discuss trade in future. Emphasis was…
What can Germany learn from health systems in Denmark, Sweden and Estonia?
International experts, scientists researchers and industrialists will meet at the Chamber of Commerce on August 29 for the 2019 eHealth-Day in Hamburg. Emphasis is on smart health systems from De…
Meeting point, workbench and shop window for wind industry
Around 650 exhibitors from Germany and neighbouring countries as well as 18,000 trade visitors from all sectors of the wind energy industry are expected at Husum Wind 2019 underway from September 10-13, 2019. The fair wil…
Hamburg News presents young entrepreneurs as "Hamburg meets ..." launches in VRHQ
Hamburg gained yet another event Wednesday (August 21, 2019) with the start of the new “'Hamburg meets …’” event series at the Virtual Reality Headquarters (VRHQ). Hamburg News is now goin…
Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft boosting 11 eleven sectors in Hamburg's creative economy
The Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft showed just how closely creativity and innovation are intertwined at its two-day congress Mind the Progress in mid June. Stimulating innovation has become an inc…
Berlin's Sirplus on mission to make waste food mainstream - over 100 enquiries from Hamburg
The founder of the Berlin-based Sirplus founder Raphael Fellmer is aiming to give edible food that has been discarded based on visual faults, overproduction or the best-before da…