The investment location of Saxony-Anhalt in April 2015

The Investment and Marketing Corporation Saxony-Anhalt (IMG) has been honoured with the Best to Invest Top Agency Award 2015. In addition to the agency Business Birmingham, the IMG prevailed as the best regional development agency in Western Europe. The prize was conferred by a 25-head international jury consisting of site consultants and site selection experts. Read more.

The starting shot has been fired for supporting innovation in the federal state during the new period of EU structural funding: from now on, small and medium sized companies as well as handicraft businesses are able to submit funding applications for research and development projects to the State Investment Bank, as well as for knowledge and technology transfer projects. Read more.

The company FEV in Brehna (District of Anhalt-Bitterfeld) is continuing to grow. The company FEV Dauerlaufprüfzentrum GmbH is a subsidiary company of the globally operating FEV Group which is based in Aachen, and completes continuous tests on internal combustion engines for vehicle manufacturers. The company has its own specialist testing centre at the Brehna location for this very purpose Read more.

"German Nobel Prize": Saxony-Anhalt is very attractive as a location for science and research. The latest proof: for the third time, the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg has succeeded in attracting an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship exceptionally quickly. This international research prize is one of the most highly endowed in Germany, with a value of five million euros, and this year, along with three additional scientists, it has been awarded to American ecologist Tiffany Knight. Read more.