How to protect businesses and employees during the crisis. How to optimise working from home. Ideas, services and technology that make our tasks easier in these extreme circumstances.
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Plexiglass screens to protect cashiers
Plexiglas screens serve as a physical barrier between cashiers and custormers in supermarkets.
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Simplifying doctor-patient communication
New policies enable consulting a doctor and receiving prescriptions without personal contact.
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“Emergency” marketing package for businesses
The emergency package helps businesses quickly retune their sales processes, change priorities and communication strategy, and minimise financial losses.
Financial support for local business vouchers
A municipality in Italy pays half of the cost for vouchers for local businesses that have been hit by the coronavirus crisis.
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Risk-mitigating measures for public transport
How to ensure that the local traffic infrastructure can continue its services, while at the same time protecting its staff and passengers from infection.
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Promotion fund for home office and works council communication
Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour adapts fund for crisis.
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3D printing valves for reanimation devices
When parts for reanimation devices can not be delivered through the usual production chains, 3D printing can be an alternative.
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Tech emergency aid for administration and social sector
An initiative provides support by volunteer tech talents so that health, logistics, and administration systems can continue their work.
Automatically opening and closing doors in public transport
To reduce the risk of infection, passengers no longer have to touch the door openers of metros, trams, and buses.
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Co-creation platform for Covid-19 challenges
A platform calls for challenges related to the Covid-19 outbreak and facilitates the collaboration of different stakeholders to find solutions.
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A data sharing platform for researchers
To enable the efficient collection and sharing of available research data in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak, the European Commission starts a new platform.
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COVID-19 Worldwide online investment conference
An online conference aims to accelerate innovations to fight the coronavirus and to prevent it from hurting societies in the future.