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Hydrogen – education – broadband: Elbe-Weser region gears up for 2019
© aconium, New Year's reception of the Stade Chamber of Industry and Commerce for the Elbe-Weser region, 16.01.2019 What challenges will 2019 bring for the region between the Elbe and Weser rivers? The IHK Stade 's New Year's reception yesterday gave around 900 guests...
Final Conference “Connecting Seas” of Two INTERREG Projects in Hamburg
© herrvonfuchs, Shutterstock From February 13 to 14, 2019, the final conference "Connecting Seas" of the two INTERREG projects "NorthSEE" and "Baltic LINes" funded by the European Union will take place in Hamburg. The conference will focus in particular on the status...
Fast Internet for the Spreewald – commissioning and handover of funding decision in Krausnick
l-r: Vesta von Bossel, Telekom Board Representative for Broadband Expansion; Dahme-Spreewald District Administrator Stephan Loge; Brandenburg's Minister of Economic Affairs Jörg Steinbach and Ulf Freienstein, Head of Infrastructure Funding aconium, Project Management...
Fulda district in the fast lane: Network launch in Hosenfeld and another funding decision
District Administrator Bernd Woide (district of Fulda, left), Mayor Malolepszy (municipality of Hosenfeld, right) and Regional Manager Manfred Henning (aconium, center) at the commissioning and handover ceremony in Hosenfeld (district of Fulda, Hesse) on 14.12.2018. ©...
Medium-sized family business BASS benefits from broadband expansion in the Main-Tauber district
The Main-Tauber district is the northernmost district in Baden-Württemberg. With its north-south extension of over 100 kilometers, it is one of the largest of the 35 districts in Baden-Württemberg, but with around 132,000 inhabitants on an area of over 1,300 km², it...
Working in the Digital Age
Michael Schwemmle (sociologist) during his lecture. © aconium GmbH How is work changing as a result of the digital transformation? What does this development mean for the balance of power on the labor market? These questions were explored at an event organised by the...
Workshop for grant recipients from Saxony
On December 12, aconium GmbH held a meeting at its regional office for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia with applicants/beneficiaries of the federal broadband funding program. Representatives from five municipalities came to Leipzig to find out more about the...
Information from the BMVI on “self-installation”
On October 24, 2018, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure issued an instruction to the project sponsor regarding so-called "in-house co-laying". In it, the BMVI comments on the question of the conditions under which companies that carry out an...
Will AI Make us immortal? – Artificial Intelligence as a Global Challenge for Germany and Europe
It is a cross-sectional and key technology with disruptive potential and is already beginning to change all areas of society. At the 2018 Digital Summit in Nuremberg, the immensely growing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) once again became clear. The breadth...
Expansion project in the Neuwied district completed
After 20 months of construction in eight phases, the subsidized broadband expansion project in the district of Neuwied was completed on November 22, 2018. The commissioning of the network with bandwidths of at least 50 Mbit/s marks an important step into the future...
Groundbreaking ceremony for broadband expansion in the district of Lüneburg
Lüdersburg, a municipality in the joint municipality of Scharnebeck, was the venue for the start of the expansion of the fiber optic network in the district of Lüneburg. The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony took place in front of the volunteer fire department...
Winner of the European Broadband Awards
The winners of the European Broadband Awards 2018 were honored at an awards ceremony in Brussels on 19 November. The European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel and the Commissioner for Regional Development Corina Creţu honored five projects....