MonacoTech, the Incubator and Accelerator of startups created by the Monegasque State, in partnership with Monaco Telecom and Xavier Niel, convened last month to consider applications, the Government confirmed on Thursday.
Out of 67 entries, five were shortlisted for assistance.
CIEL markets or leases airborne drones that can fly for several days, carrying a heavier load than traditional drones (up to 70 kg) and at a lower cost. The target markets for this equipment are surveillance, surveying, civil and public safety, communications, information and entertainment.
Hyve is a mobile event ticketing application that will permit users to buy, exchange and also sell tickets. The app that also organises your events from start to finish, integrating additional services, such as booking transportation, accommodation.
KeeSystem offers an innovative solution to simplify wealth management – independent asset manager, family offices and private banks – with a customised tool to manage all strategic activities and simplify the business of wealth management in an increasingly complex environment.
TerraioT consists of creating complete IoT solutions for the smart city – IoT for transport, parking, security, business intelligence.
YouStock is an app that allows you to order storage boxes of all sizes, store unused items and store them in secure storage for a specified period of time without moving from home.
For the second MonacoTech call for applications, which had a deadline of August 20, 105 files were submitted. A new jury will meet on September 18, 2017 to designate future projects.
A Moroccan man has been jailed in Monaco for a string of break-ins during which he stole cash, phones, and other valuables.
Monaco’s Criminal Court heard that the 19-year-old, who had no criminal record in Monaco or France, had arrived on August 25 from Paris. He burgled an apartment at 3 rue Louis-Aureglia, at about 3 pm on the same afternoon.
Laptop, eight gold chains, four valuable watches, headphones, camera, cell phone, two passports, a knife were stolen. The value of the stolen goods has been estimated at €34,895, and he sold the booty for €300 in the Notre-Dame district of Nice.
Three days later, on August 28, at around 2 pm, the police were alerted to a robbery that was committed at the Da Caterina restaurant at Larvotto. A window was broken, the cash drawer emptied of some €300 in notes and many coins. A mobile phone also disappeared. Ten minutes later, the police heard the sound of breaking glass at “The Rose of the Winds”. They arrested the young man walking on the beach.
He was carrying numerous notes and coins still in rolls for a total of €1,162 plus a few items of food.
“La Bionda”, rue Suffren-Reymond, had been broken into the previous day and €250 was stolen.
During his time in custody, the culprit admitted all of the offences and claimed he had stolen to eat. He was sent to jail for 10 months.
On Sunday, September 3, MonacoUSA will lay a memorial wreath to commemorate the American-led liberation of Monaco from German occupation 73 years ago. The ceremony begins at 5 pm in the cemetery in Monaco, located just below the Princess Grace Hospital. The remembrance ceremony will also include prayers at the tombs of two Monaco resistance fighters executed shortly after the Allies arrived in the south of France in 1944.
The wreath will be presented by Merrily Lustig-Tornatore, a 20-year member of MonacoUSA, who also serves on its Board.
“Many people think that the close relationship between Monaco and the US started with the marriage of American-born Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier,” said Annette Anderson, MonacoUSA Director, “but certainly the US role in liberating the Principality during World War II had already cemented an important friendship.”
On August 15, 1944, allied forces landed along the coast west of Nice. Within two weeks, allied airplanes had bombarded and badly damaged the port area of Monaco. Five days later, the naval battering of La Turbie and Mont Agel signalled the moment for the German troops to depart.
On September 3, the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team arrived in Monaco.
Ms Anderson cites an oft-repeated story about that momentous day: “A jeep with two American GI’s drives into Monte Carlo and pulls up to the Tip Top Bar. One of the GIs, the future-bestselling author Irwin Shaw, jumps out, orders some drinks and announces that Monaco had been liberated.”
Unfortunately, Ms Anderson added, Monaco historian, Pierre Abramovici, the author of “Monaco Sous l’Occupation,” recently documented that the story is urban legend and not true. “Shame,” she said, “it’s a great story.”
The Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation invites contemporary literature lovers to a reading evening hosted by Daniel Mesguich at Fort Antoine on Thursday, September 7, starting at 8:30 pm.
The famous comedian will read excerpts from the first novels selected for the 2017 Discovery Exchange: Pierre Adrian, Simple Souls (Ecuador, January 2017); Cédric Gras, Anthracite (Stock, August 2016); Frédéric Gros, Owned (Albin Michel, August 2016); Nehémy Pierre-Dahomey, Returnees (Seuil, January 2017); and Blandine Rinkel, Abandonment of pretensions (Fayard, January 2017).
This will be a literary evening to enjoy on deckchairs set around the stage, or more traditionally on tiered cushions. Admission is free, and reservation advised on +377 98 98 85 15
In the event of of bad weather, the Lectures will take place at the Princess Grace Theatre.
The dire state of the Mediterranean due to pollution has been highlighted by a recent study by the Italian environmental organisation Legambiente. Its research ship, Goletta Verde (Green Boat) has reported that 40 percent of coastal seawater samples it tested from the 7,412-kilometre length of Italy’s coastline contained pollutants above legal limits.
The 40 percent of samples contained bacterial charges above legal limits, according to the Legambiente report.
The regions of Lazio, Campania, Calabria and Sicily were the worst effected, with Campania and Sicily accounting for 30 percent of the total of all tests.
Legambiente has said that waste at sea is a planetary emergency.
The report adds that the number of prosecutions against individuals for acts of pollution against the sea halved in 2017 when compared with 2016, but overall there has been a slight dip since 1999 in the number of cases of pollution reported off Italy’s coast.
I was first introduced to Gitte Peters at a party in a swanky apartment facing port Hercules. Her multi-coloured blots of paint splashed across an imposing canvas captivated my attention. With its contagious vibrancy, I found myself thinking about my mom, who started painting at the age of seventy.
“It’s stunning, isn’t it?” one of the others guests, also dressed in yacht attire as per the dress code, commented softly. “It’s by the Danish artist, Gitte Peters, who lives in Monaco.”
Gitte Peters comes from a family of musicians, including her music-teaching father, but even though she has an ear for music and briefly studied classical piano as a child, art came to her in another medium.
Gitte grew up in Jutland, Denmark, and while she was always aware she could draw, her talent as a painter was discovered as a young adult. “In my twenties, I passed by an art gallery and what I saw in the window hit me,” Gitte told me from her airy Monaco residence, in the company of her daughter Mia. “I have to do this, I thought.” On her way home, she bought easels, paint and canvas and she started to paint.
Mia Peters admires her mother’s work
“When I was ten years old,” Mia shared, “I came home from school one day and our living room had become my mom’s atelier.” Mia, who assists her mom in business, expressed. “Mom created such a synergy working at home. It was just natural, and her painting life became integrated in our family life.”
With no formal art training, Gitte concentrated on perspective. “I wanted to understand why I am attracted to the skilled hand work of one painting and not another.”
Stocked with supplies, Gitte, who says art comes from feelings inside, started out as expressionism first working with acrylics. “I couldn’t paint with oils, because of the odour, in our home.
“Painting was exciting and it still is. You start off with a colour, and the result should be sparkling, happy and calm. In between you ping-pong back and forth from the canvas.”
Gitte’s career began after she gave her first painting to her then sister-in-law in Hamburg, whose neighbour owned an art gallery. He was confident he could sell the work.
She then, by chance, met her art-collecting manager-to-be at a framing shop, Knud Thorbjørnsen (impresario for Rolling Stones and Beatles in Scandinavia), who was reminded of Asger Jorn when he saw Gitte’s work.
Knud Thorbjørnsen was also responsible for putting Gitte in touch with Gallery Knud Grothe in Copenhagen, which continues to carry her work.
“The owner came to see me and said I had to paint 300 more works and then we would talk. So I did.” And when he came back, she was working on a piece and he asked her to create 50 of the same quality and style.
Springtime 170 x 240 cm
She moved from brushes to a spatula, and from faces to flowers, juggling colour. By 2004, she had rented an apartment and studio in Vence to work on a 6-metre canvas commissioned by the Danish Handball Championship team to celebrate their 25th anniversary.
“When I first moved to Vence in 2004, I was sitting on a high rocky hill, and I could see the sea in the distance, and in this rough environment I felt so many flowers and gratefulness and this inspired my work”. A new style was born and the rough pots for the impressionistic flower paintings came to life. “And this energy is still the core of my flower paintings today.”
Since then, she relocated to Monaco. Gitte has had exhibitions in Copenhagen and Seattle, and this fall in New York. Locally, she did an exhibit at the Monte Carlo Art Gallery in 2010 (it has since changed owners) and donated her work for charity auctions (which is how the tableau I saw found its home). Gitte shared that there is so much to discover as a painter and discipline is the key word. She admitted she doesn’t really have time to sit around and drink coffee with other artists in the Monaco art scene but she wouldn’t be opposed to a showing at the Jonckheere Gallery on ave Princess Grace.
Over twenty years, the artist says she has evolved. “I’ve had many moments that have moved me as an artist. Particularly when I speak to individuals who have saved to buy one of my paintings, maybe not going on a vacation in order to do so. Or at my exhibition in June in Copenhagen, a couple of people came with photos of my art they had bought and talked to me about how happy they were. It was very touching.”
Portrait of artist
Calming Harmony – 98 x 130 new
The Eagle was created in 2009 for Eco Art and Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
Source of Love – 130 x 140 new
The Falcon was created in 2010 for Eco Art and Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
Happy Moments 170 x 240 new
While Gitte is currently looking for an atelier in Monaco, her work can be viewed by appointment or by ordering a copy of her splendid book, Glimpses of Beauty (Une Parcelle du Beau).
“You don’t choose to be a painter – especially if you want a secure income. You just are a painter,” Gitte, who lives by her motto “Love you life … every day”, emphasised.
As for Mia, she added, “I am grateful for my mother’s art. Being up close with art adds a different dimension to life, and there are other ways to do things in life by breaking with conformity. You see what is required to be a professional painter, it’s not a 9 to 5 job with rules – but its an exciting adventure to be part of, and no two days are alike.”
The Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation invites contemporary literature lovers to a reading evening hosted by Daniel Mesguich at Fort Antoine on Thursday, September 7, starting at 8:30 pm.
