Latest news from #brnoregion

The gaming industry has been thriving in #brnoregion, with numbers of foreign investors, studios, and game developers rising every day. What role do the local community and cooperating organizations play in all of this? And what does it take for other globally successful games to be developed in Brno? Here’s an interview with Roman Hladík, head of Game Cluster.

At the Jobspin Job & Relocation Fair, professionals and recent graduates have the opportunity to meet the most important international employers in Brno face-to-face, in a friendly and professional environment. The fair also features many services useful to expats - from English-friendly banking to education.

In the realm of technological prowess, #brnoregion stands tall as a true leader in cybersecurity. While the city is renowned for its overall remarkable achievements in information technology, local companies have thrived in the cybersecurity arena, making it an exceptionally compelling and noteworthy aspect to highlight.

Exploring new materials for chip production and enabling their analysis directly in the production environment – these are the tasks of two scientific teams from #brnoregion – from Thermo Fisher Scientific and Brno University of Technology. Electron microscopes play a key role in their efforts. Thanks to them, as part of the three-year European ALL2GaN project, we can look forward to a solution that has enormous potential to save energy and thus mitigate the climate crisis by reducing CO2 emissions. Indeed, the gallium nitride chips being developed will be used in a wide range of applications including telecommunications and e-mobility.

#brnoregion has been awarded the prestigious European Entrepreneurial Region 2024 award, making it the first recipient of this title from the Czech Republic. The European Committee of the Regions particularly appreciated the long-term strategy of supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in the region and the resulting current activities aimed at greater resilience, sustainability and digitalization of companies.

We celebrated 200 years since the birth of father of genetics – Gregor Johann Mendel, who lived in worked in Brno, our innovation capital of #brnoregion. To spread the fascinating tale of his work and life, we offered young and talented researchers from all over Europe to win a trip to follow in his footsteps. How did our winner Emanuele enjoy her journey?

Every creative person understands how difficult it is to come up with genuinely good ideas. They, like mushrooms in the wild, require the correct conditions to develop into something remarkable. To find those conditions, a growing number of people have been moving out of classic offices and into unique places where they can get inspired by others. What are the top coworking spaces in Brno?

What role does innovation play in times of uncertainty? This is the fundamental question that this year's EBN Congress is asking. A number of personalities from major European innovation institutions and incubators will come to Brno this year to lecture and discuss.

Developers from the biggest game studios in the world gathered in #brnoregion this weekend to enjoy Game Access Conference. Here is a quick report.