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  • Estonian startup MyGames raises €100K in a pre-seed round

    Estonian startup MyGames raises €100K in a pre-seed round

    At the beginning of 2020, MyGames joined Tehnopol Startup Incubator and closed 100K in the pre-seed round at the end of January.

    Just a bit later when COVID-19 locked down pretty much every single tennis court in Europe they started building the ”tennis court in a box” as they call it.

    This is a hardware product coupled with the MyGames booking system which is the key for maintaining fully automatic tennis courts.

    Though the solution was built keeping tennis in mind, the product is fully applicable for both tennis and padel courts.

    How MyGames system works

    In July 2020 the very first self-service outdoor tennis court was opened in Pärnu, Estonia.

    With the MyGames demo court, the players could simply book, pay and play without any contact with employees because there are none.

    The booking system controls everything from the reservation and payment to the access, lighting and even irrigation if needed. 

    From the launch, MyGames has delivered more than 2000 bookings with a value of over €50K.

  • Citycon acquired plots adjacent to the Kristiine centre in Tallin

    Citycon acquired plots adjacent to the Kristiine centre in Tallin

    Citycon acquired the plots at Kotkapoja 1, 3, 5 adjacent to the Kristiine centre’s parking lot and is planning real estate development on the acquired land.

    The plots have an area of 5690 square meters and have the intended purpose of residential area.

    Approximately 130 stores on more than 40 000 square meters of business space are operating in Kristiine.

    Kristiine has 110 different fashion stores and 16 places to eat and is daily visited by about 16,000 people.

    The future development plan of the company also envisages the development of Rocca al Mare, another centre located in Tallinn, into a multifunctional living environment of the region. 

    Rocca al Mare centre in western Tallinn is planning to expand on account of the current parking lot, by building additional shopping as well as office space with the plans to also construct residential premises and a hotel.

  • CoinLoan, an international crypto-lending platform, goes mobile

    CoinLoan, an international crypto-lending platform, goes mobile

    CoinLoan, an international crypto-lending platform, announced that all the services previously available only from a desktop are now at a distance of a few taps, with a new mobile app.

    What you can do with the new CoinLoan app:

    • Interest Account, the feature that allows users to earn up to 10.3% on idle assets annually just for parking them on the platform.
    • Instant Loans, the place for asset-backed loans with interest rates as low as 4.5%. No paperwork or credit checks needed.
    • Crypto Exchange is a tool to buy, sell, and swap assets at competitive rates, with no deposits and withdrawals fees.

    The tools mentioned above create a multi-purpose platform for asset management, beneficial for traders and miners, investment funds, private investors and all the crypto enthusiasts.

    Earlier this month, CoinLoan received the renewed European virtual currency provider license.

  • Woola from Estonia wins the EIT InnoEnergy 2020

    Woola from Estonia wins the EIT InnoEnergy 2020

    The jury of the sixth edition of the PowerUp! Challenge announced the winner of the CEE region’s most prominent contest for innovative enterprises and business solutions.

    Woola from Estonia was awarded a cheque for 50 000€ as well as the opportunity to join EIT InnoEnergy’s business accelerator programme.

    The prize is complemented by other valuable contributions from key partners such as Amazon Web Services, Vestbee and the SpeedUp Group.

    The Challenge saw record participation this year, with over 360 start-ups from 20 countries across Central and Eastern Europe in the running for the main prize and future investment opportunities.

    In the sixth edition of the competition, Woola has been awarded the “Startup of the year in the CEE region” title and a cheque for 50,000€, along with the opportunity to join the EIT InnoEnergy’s business accelerator programme. Furthermore, key partner Amazon Web Services offered credits to their AWS Activate program and business support, and other partners such as Vestbee and the SpeedUp Group also awarded the winner with services and grants.

    Who is Woola

    Woola is engaged in production of  packaging material from sheep’s wool residues which is used in decreasing the production, consumption and landfill waste of environmentally harmful materials like Styrofoam and plastic.

    Woola is an eco-friendly bubble wrap made from sheep wool.

    The product is shockproof, heatproof, and at-home compostable within six months.

    Woola makes use of an abundant resource that would otherwise be thrown away. Every year, 135 tons of sheep wool ends up in a landfill in Estonia alone.

    Viezo, Lithuania in 2nd place

    Viezo from Lithuania the runner-up of the Grand Final is active in developing new types of material that can produce energy from vibrations and use this instead of batteries.

    The electricity generated from wasted vibrations can power wireless IoT sensors, therefore prolonging their lifetime or increasing the amount of signals.

    They received a €10,000 prize.

    Pocket Virtuality, Czechia, is 3rd

    The third place and a cheque of €5,000 went to the team of Pocket Virtuality from Czech Republic who came up with a solution of augmented and virtual reality technology that specializes in real-time remote communication.

    The solution may be used in the fields of engineering, medicine and smart cities.

    Thanks to this technology, the on-site worker can connect with an external expert who sees a virtual representation of the environment and can fully assist from a distance.

    Audience award went to Slovenia

    The audience award went to TROIA from Slovenia, with their solution TROIA AR platform, which is an asset management tool.

    The platform, with the help of AR glasses, tablets or phones, displays computer-generated key data in real time, thus enabling exceptional improvements in terms of operational excellence and quality at work.

    It offers endless possibilities and business opportunities for all industries and the TROIA team can customize it for different applications, for different organizations.

  • Which are the best CEE universities in QS World University Ranking

    Which are the best CEE universities in QS World University Ranking

    Politecnico di Milano, ranking 137, with 37.226 students registered is the first university in CEE, followed by University of Vienna, 45.623 students, ranked 150, latest QS World University Ranking shows.

    The latest QS World University Ranking includes around 1,000 universities.

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the first ranked university in the world and University of Oxford is the first European university (ranked 5 in the world).

    Other 36 universities from Italy in top 1000

    Top 500 include the following universities from Italy, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (160), Sapienza University of Rome (171), Università di Padova (216), University of Milan (301), Politecnico di Torino (308), University of Pisa (383), University of Naples – Federico II (392), Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Milano (392), University of Trento (403), University of Florence (432), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (511-520), University of Turin, University of Milano-Bicocca (521-530).

    Other Italian institutions in top 1000 are Free University Bozen, Bolzano, Università degli Studi di Pavia (601-650), University of Genoa, University of Siena (651-700), University of Trieste (701-750), Politecnico di Bari, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, University of Brescia (751-800), Catania University, Universita’ degli Studi di Ferrara, University of Salerno, Università degli Studi di Udine, Università degli studi Roma Tre, University of Calabria, Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, University of Palermo, University of Bari, University of Parma, Verona University (801-1000).

    7 other Austrian universities in the top

    Austria has other universities in top: Vienna University of Technology (191), Universität Innsbruck (265), Graz University of Technology (275), Johannes Kepler University Linz (362), University of Klagenfurt (511-520), Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz (581-590), Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (751-800).

    Czechia has 8 universities in Top 1000

    Charles University Prague, 48,623 students, ranked 260, is the first Czech university in QS World University Ranking, followed by University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (342), Masaryk University Brno (531-540), Brno University of Technology, Mendel University in Brno (701-750), Technical University of Liberec (751-800), Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, University of Pardubice (801-1000).

    First university in the Baltic States is ranked no 285

    University of Tartu (Estonia), ranked 285, is the best university in the
    Baltic States, followed by Vilnius University (Lithuania), ranked 423 and Riga
    Technical University (Latvia), ranked 701-750.

    Other two Estonian universities are in Top 1000, Tallinn University of
    Technology (TalTech) is ranked 651-700 and Tallinn University is no 801-1000.

    Lithuania has three more universities in Top 1000, Vilnius Gediminas
    Technical University (651-700), Kaunas University of Technology and Vytautas
    Magnus University, Kaunas (801-1000).

    Other two universities in Latvia are present in QS World University Ranking,
    Riga Stradins University and University of Latvia, Riga (801-1000).

    Poland has 15 universities in the first 1000

    According to the latest QS World University Ranking, University of Warsaw (321) is the first Polish institution ranked.

    Other Polish universities included in the ranking are Jagiellonian University (326), Warsaw University of Technology (511-520), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Cracow University of Technology (Politechnika Krakowska), Gdansk University of Technology, Lodz University of Technology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poznań University of Technology, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, University of Gdansk, University of Lodz, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (WRUST) (801-1000).

    First Greek university is ranked no 477

    National Technical University of Athens, ranked 477, is the first Greece university in QS World University Ranking, followed by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (571-580), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (651-700), Athens University of Economics and Business, University of Crete (801-1000).

    University of Szeged, the first in Hungary

    First Hungarian institution in the QS World University Ranking is University of Szeged (ranked 501-510), followed by University of Debrecen (521-530), Eötvös Loránd University (601-650), University of Pecs (651-700), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest, Szent Istvan University, University of Miskolc, (801-1000).

    Bulgarian and Slovenian universities, at the same level

    Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, home for 19.086 students, is the only Bulgarian University in the top, ranking 601-650.

    First ranked Slovenian University is University of Ljubljana (601-650), followed by University of Maribor (801-1000).

    Slovakia has 4 universities in QS World University Ranking

    Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice is the first university from Slovakia in the QS World University Ranking and is ranked 651-700, followed by Comenius University in Bratislava (701-750), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Technical University of Kosice, (801-1000).

    Romania and Croatia are at the bottom

    Romania and Croatia are the worst ranked countries from CEE region with Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and University of Bucharest (Romania) and University of Rijeka or University of Zagreb ranking 801-1000.