Press
Here you find the latest press releases and images of MFG Baden-Württemberg, Public Innovation Agency for ICT and Media. More images for your media coverage (print, blogs and social networks) can be found on Flickr. With appropriate acknowledgement (MFG Baden-Württemberg) all images are available free of charge.
Press Releases
13.02.2012 - Software Solutions from Baden-Württemberg Ensure Security and Trust at the CeBIT 2012
17 companies, higher-education institutions and public sector organisations will be represented on Baden-Württemberg's joint stand at the CeBIT. From 6 to 10 March 2012, they will present trendsetting software solutions and application examples on the hall 7, stand C40. The Minister of Finance and Economics of Baden-Württemberg, Dr. Nils Schmid, will visit the exhibitors at the fair on 8 March 2012. The joint stand has already been operated for over ten years by MFG Innovation Agency for ICT ...
05.10.2011 - Heidelberg Innovation Forum: Cloud-Based IT Business Ideas Sought
The Heidelberg Innovation Forum on 17 April 2012 will offer company founders and high-tech researchers in the field of cloud computing a prime opportunity to meet potential investors and application partners. The closing date for applications from anyone interested in presenting their business ideas or research findings to investors and industry partners at this event is 5 December. An expert jury will select the best submissions from among all the applicants.
27.07.2011 - Inventors’ Oscar: MFG Baden-Württemberg and European Media Laboratory Nominated for Diesel Medal
The Heidelberg Innovation Forum has been nominated for the Diesel Medal, since 1952 one of the most coveted national awards in the entire field of research and development. The decision recognises the matchmaking initiative’s strategic orientation and success rate ...
19.05.2011 - MFG Baden-Württemberg Receives Special Prize in Innovation in Training Competition
How can employee knowledge gaps be identified, bridged with appropriate training and the updated skills effectively applied in practice? MFG Baden-Württemberg set about meeting this challenge with a four-step concept that integrates and aligns multiple training tools ...
28.03.2011 - Immersive Technologies Stimulate Innovation in Creative Industries
3D browser games, virtual classrooms and adaptable online workplaces: the 10th Heidelberg Innovation Forum on 12 April 2011 will focus on immersive technologies, an important topic for creative industries in the future. More than 20 business ideas will be outlined in short presentations in the Studio at Heidelberg’s Villa Bosch ...
04.03.2011 - Regional Study: Internationalisation of the IT Sector Calls for More Foreign Language Competence
In a current survey, MFG Baden-Württemberg is investigating educational and further training needs in the Upper Rhine Valley's IT industry together with IHK Zetis and its fifteen partners in the IT2Rhine IT network. The findings will be used to develop a strategy for boosting the IT region's competitiveness and attractiveness on an international level. The first outcome of this long-term study is that linguistic monoculture inhibits economic relations ...
20.02.2011 - CeBIT 2011: Baden-Württemberg presents itself as modern IT and knowledge management location
A total of 22 companies, universities and public institutions from the state of Baden-Württemberg will be sharing a stand at CeBIT (Hall 9, Stand C40) from 1 to 5 March 2011 to present pioneering software solutions and application scenarios for knowledge-intensive services. Minister President Stefan Mappus and Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economic Affairs Richard Drautz will visit the Baden-Württemberg exhibitors on 2 and 3 March. The stand has been organised for over ten years ...
12.11.2010 - How Italian Avatars Interpret and How Swabian Medium-sized Companies Learn About Social Media
With about 1,100 participants the international conference for creative industries, Create10 and the German Multimedia Summit (DMMK) exceeded the expectations of the hosts. In two days of conference on the 10th and 11th November representatives from the industry and trade met designers and communication strategists at Römerkastell in Stuttgart. They sketched successful strategies for the European creative industries and discussed current topics and trends with international media researchers ...
01.09.2010 - IT Top Manager Meets Top Creative Persons
Microsoft Director Germany, Ralph Haupter and Jochen Rädeker, Chief of Executive of the Art Directors Club in Germany (ADC), open the German Multimedia Summit DMMK and the international conference for creative industries, Create10 at Römerkastell, Stuttgart. Together with several partners, MFG Baden-Württemberg connects digital masterminds and practitioners from Germany and all over Europe and creates a comprehensive hot spot for creative industries ...
26.05.2010 - Create10: MFG Hosts European Future Conference for Digital Trends in the Creative Industries
Create10, the European Future Conference for Digital Trends in the Creative Industries, will be staged for the first time on November 10 and 11, 2010 in Stuttgart. Together with partners from Stuttgart itself, the surrounding area and South-West Germany, MFG Baden-Württemberg will bring together digital pioneers from all over the country and indeed throughout Europe. Not only Create10 but also this year's German Multimedia Summit DMMK will make its debut at Römerkastell, Stuttgart ...
