Covid 19
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One man, two pandemics
Dr. Bonaventura Clotet has devoted his life to fighting infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and Covid-19. When the Covid-19 virus first reached Barcelona in early 2020, Dr. Bonaventura Clotet was more prepared than anyone
To ski or not to ski
Jeremiah Thoronka, a 17 year old young man from Makawo in Sierra Leone, has launched his own startup, Optim Energy, to power homes via kinetic energy transfer.
Capital vision for the Middle East
As the pandemic transforms the daily life of billions of people around the world, the fast-growing Saudi capital of Riyadh is preparing to lead a new era in urban living.
SEAT launches a new, more flexible, digitalised and sustainable way of working
SEAT has set up a new work model to promote a flexible, dynamic working environment that favours the work-life balance. This initiative is called Smart Work.
SEAT’s Hola Tapas Bar is off the ground in Vienna
The company created in Barcelona combines the culinary and automotive worlds and opens a restaurant in the Austrian capital. SEAT partners with chef Juan Amador to offer a new customer experience concept.
Cooperation and technology hold key to Covid-19 response
In December 2019, when few people could point to Wuhan on a map and even fewer knew what a coronavirus was, a risk software company in Toronto was already using AI to scrawl through websites and databases and accurately predict…
New hope for plastics recycling
The critical part played by plastics in modern life has never been clearer. This much misunderstood material has proved its worth across all facets of the global response to Covid-19. One of the world’s largest plastics companies is demonstrating a…
Sputnik moment for humanity
When the Soviet Union launched the world’s first man-made satellite in 1957, it triggered a Space Race that would revolutionise global communications, take mankind to the moon and transform humanity’s understanding of its place in the cosmos.
Cars vs Boredom
In the midst of the COVID-19 health crisis, forced confinement is also an opportunity for doing relaxing, leisure activities at home.