Digital News Initiative: €150m Innovation Fund now open In April, we launched the Digital News Initiative , a partnership with eleven European news organisations to support high quality journalism... Read more...
Investing in Africa’s largest wind project We’ve come a long way since we first started investing in renewable energy, committing more than $2 billion to 22 clean energy projects, and... Read more...
Google’s Growth Engine goes local to get Belgian businesses online Back in February, we invited entrepreneurs from across Europe to celebrate their online success stories in Brussels. We also announced our p... Read more...
Introducing the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, for a faster, open mobile web Smartphones and tablets have revolutionized the way we access information, and today people consume a tremendous amount of news on their pho... Read more...
View the “Chopin Olympics” on YouTube and the Google Cultural Institute If you’re a piano afficionado, then you’re quite possibly also a fan of the great Polish piano virtuoso and composer Fryderyk Chopin. And i... Read more...
YouTube Space Paris: a new home for French creators In France, just like in other cultural centres in Europe, the YouTube creative community is booming. French creators like Poisson Fecond (a... Read more...
Celebrating Europe’s rich festival culture The European Festivals Association (EFA) has been uniting distinguished music, dance, theatre and multidisciplinary arts festivals from Eur... Read more...
Frisians Rally To Bring Native Tongue To Google Translate It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world--the vast majority of them used by less than 100,000 people.... Read more...
Spending time backstage with Europe’s digital creators We’re huge fans of the amazing creative Europeans who make a living entertaining, educating and informing people around the world via YouTub... Read more...
Dutch wind for a Dutch data centre This week, our infrastructure and energy team visited Delfzijl, a blustery coastal town in the far north of the Netherlands. They were there... Read more...
Vote now open in France’s Google Impact Challenge In April we launched the Google Impact Challenge in France, inviting all French non-profits and foundations to share their ideas for how th... Read more...
Matching your donation to humanitarian relief for refugees and migrants Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog My name is Rita Masoud and I am a refugee. I was born in war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan. When I was ... Read more...