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Industry 4.0 sets up shop in Brandenburg

The advent of the smart factory places manufacturing on the threshold of a new era. The transformation in progress is so profound that it is often referred to as a new industrial revolution — the fourth, also known as Industry 4.0. In Brandenburg, a dedicated innovation centre is helping SMEs to explore the new world of opportunity created as digitisation and advanced automation combine. 

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TeKiDe technology creates sustainable new textiles from waste cotton in Helsinki-Uusimaa

A method to turn old cotton textiles into sustainable, high-quality fibre has been demonstrated in Finland’s Helsinki-Uusimaa region by the TeKiDe project. The innovation aims to boost the region’s clean technology specialisation and could support a new low-waste textile industry. As part of the project VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has designed a production platform to dissolve waste cotton and re-spin it into a viscose-like fibre using less-polluting chemicals and producing less waste than current techniques used for common textiles. 

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Lifelong learning programme in Amsterdam: towards a skills-oriented labour market

To solve the mismatch between employee development goals, jobseekers and the needs of a quickly changing labour market, skills-oriented career programmes and matching tools have been created in the Amsterdam Metropolitan area.

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