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It’s travel season! Let’s go to France, Italy, Norway, Malaysia or Peru! Sounds like a busy itinerary and a faraway destination? It doesn’t have to be – Thuringia, an intercultural state and inspiring tourist locale, offers nearby sites…

“The art gallery is always worth a trip to Apolda” – that is the closing sentence on the website of the Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde art gallery. Indeed, thousands of visitors come to this central Thuringian town every year to experience…

Thuringia plays in the big leagues worldwide – through medium-sized companies that have achieved market or technology leadership through innovative products and services and leading technologies. As a first step, LEG identified almost 90…

Thuringia is home to one of the largest investments of this kind in Europe and marked a major milestone at the beginning of the year: Chinese global market leader Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) is building its first battery…

Companies seeking new business opportunities in dynamic markets amid global upheaval were offered attractive options at the end of April: Led by Economics Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee and State Secretary for Economics Carsten Feller, a…

After considerable growth in recent years and the successful completion of a financing round, FBGS Technologies GmbH launched its expansion project in Jena last September with a groundbreaking ceremony. The new building expands office and…

Around 300 participants attended the 15th Thuringian Foreign Trade Day on March 1, 2023, to learn about strategies and ways to successfully internationalize despite challenging uncertainties. The Volkshaus Jena provided the perfect setting…

Fingerprints can be captured with greater speed and security thanks to an invention from IDloop GmbH, a Jena-based biometrics start-up: The company has developed the world’s first ever 3D scanner that records fingerprints at a microscopic…

Thuringia leads in the use of Industry 4.0 technologies: MantaMESH, a company from western Thuringia, was honored as a global lighthouse during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos and accepted into the Global Lighthouse Network.

The path to greenhouse gas-neutral production is strewn with challenges. This includes switching to renewable energies, using environmentally friendly materials and increasing material efficiency. To support the Thuringian economy, the…