By Anja Knass, RBI | Dr. Claudia Witzemann is the Managing Director of weXelerate – Austria’s leading start-up and innovation hub. We talked with her about the Austrian start-up ecosystem, the importance of disruption and Austria’s role as a bridge between East and West. weXelerate is Austria’s largest start-up hub and located in the center […]
By Andreas Ecker, RBI| Snail farmer and manufacturer Gugumuck aims at a future-oriented urban agriculture Ten years ago Andreas Gugumuck started breeding escargots on the vegetable field of his family’s farm. Today, his Viennese Escargots, the “Wiener Schnecken”, are a well-established culinary brand served in Austria’s top restaurants and his “Future Farm” in the South […]
By Anja Knass, RBI | Sara Koslinska, co-founder and CEO of the micro-investing app limitless, was recently named as one of “30 under 30” by Forbes Poland. In this interview she talks about what inspired her to launch her app and why she thinks that Millennials need to start talking about their finances. Sara, you […]
by Linda Struckl, RBI | 1. The parachuted cell – an early version of the ejection seat You know the scenario from many action films: The chase on land or in the air gets a little too hot, so the hero catapults himself out of the danger zone with an ejection seat – usually seconds […]
By Benedikta Schlange, RBI| Next to restaurants in Paris, Milan, London or Berlin, the “Mullixhiu” in Albania’s capital Tirana is one of the best restaurants in Europe. The owner and chef Bledar Kola started his magical journey as a dishwasher in London. His story is so exceptional that German news magazine “Der Spiegel” wrote a […]
By Galina Tsvintarnaya, Raiffeisen Bank Aval | Founded in December 2015 in the Vinnytsia region in Ukraine, Biofarm Organic Company is a new-generation agricultural company, which grows, on the basis of organic farming principles, and sells organic crops and berries, mostly for export. Svitlana Viyazlovska, co-founder of Biofarm Organic Company, talks about her organic business […]
1. Strawberry tree The strawberry tree is the world’s first public solar charger for mobile devices. It was developed in 2011 by Milos Milisavljevic, the founder of the Strawberry Energy company, during his studies at the University of Belgrade. It contains 16 chargers for a variety of mobile phones and tablets as well as its […]
Explorers and scientists of Bulgarian descent created numerous inventions that are a part of our daily life. Also nowadays Bulgaria is an interesting country in terms of innovations: in the course of the Central European Startup Awards (CESAwards 2017), which aims to distinguish the best businesses in the region, a total of 32 Bulgarian companies […]
By Veronika Novakova | Raiffeisenbank a.s. Daniela Komatović is a graphic designer, painter, photographer and, above all, designer of jewellery. She was born in Prague, where she studied graphic design. In January 2015, she launched her own line of fine art jewellery, which in a short period of time has become a well-recognized and successful brand. Luxurious, […]
When talking about Hungarian inventions, you may at first not come up with too many ideas but in fact this country has produced a nearly unbelievably high number of innovations. 1.The Rubik’s cube The famous Rubik`s cube was invented in Hungary by professor Ernő Rubik. Today, more than forty years after the cube was […]
You cannot talk about Eastern Europe, without mentioning caviar. Here’s the portrait of a Ukrainian entrepreneur, who breeds the black gold in an ecologically and socially responsible manner. Osetr is a black caviar producing company in Ukraine, located in the town of Ukrainka, 20 kilometers from Kyiv. The aquaculture enterprise with a closed cycle production, […]
The Belarusian ambassador in Austria, Alena Kupchyna, talks about Belarus as a business location, what you have to keep in mind, when it comes to business relations with Belarus, the Northern Silk Road and the must-sees in her country Belarus. What makes Belarus as an economic location special? Belarus is a dynamically developing country […]