Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2022

Nominated by: Lotta Lehikoinen, Chalmers Ventures Presented by: Johannes Henriksson

Rogers Githinji’s project aims to use technology to break the barrier that exists between people and lawyers. With legal information, individuals can uphold the law and protect themselves and their families.

Professor Marcus Mall is chair of the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. He is a physician-scientist and specialist in pediatric pulmonology and one of the founding directors of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL). His research focusses on cystic fibrosis,…

The nominating institution Under the Microscope on the breakthrough: In most African countries, there is a lack of sophisticated diagnostic devices & limited expertise in high-tech diagnostics of infectious diseases. This hinders the clinical decision-making ability of healthcare providers. The Nyan- test is portable, affordable, fast & easy to use…

The Future of AI in the Industrial and Physical World Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. As technology advances, artificial intelligence…

The age of digitisation, ‘datification’, and ever smarter machines has opened up huge opportunities, from improving national security and healthcare to shopping and making travel plans. At the same time the combination of machine learning and massive data that is increasingly driving many of the automated decision-making systems that govern…

Kush R. Varshney is a distinguished research scientist and manager with IBM Research – T. J. Watson Research Center, where he leads the machine learning group in the Foundations of Trustworthy AI department. AI Fairness 360 is an extensible open-source toolkit designed to help data science practitioners examine, report, and…

HOW PRIMATE NEUROSCIENCE REVEALS THE MECHANISMS OF OUR PERCEPTION Who does not fear attention disorders? How many times have we over-looked what was right before our eyes? Many are the paranoias of a society drowning in a deluge of information. While we know that attention disorders, like attention deficit hyperactivity…

The BLCKB Brain Dictionary project is an AI Model that is using neuromarketing data to reconstruct what subjects perceive based on their brain activity captured by EEG.   Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Bio-Tech, Neuroscience.

BrainReach is an outreach programme that provides free bilingual neuroscience education to students in underserved neighborhoods in Montreal and remote indigenous communities of Quebec. Volunteers visit the same classroom every month to deliver interactive workshops. The mission of BrainReach is to educate school students on how their brains function, reduce…

How Neuroimmunology Develops New Strategies Against Brain Ageing and Degeneration Michal Schwartz’ studies revolutionized the current understanding of degenerative conditions of the central nervous system. Her theory broke the long-held dogma that immune cell entry to the brain should be completely blocked by a cellular wall, and shattered the understanding…

How Neuroscience Explains The Rise of Experience from the Brain Over the last years, much has been learned about the neuronal basis of consciousness in the brain. Together with a recently developed Integrated Information Theory of consciousness, this progress raises the possibility that science will soon come to grips with this most…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Mark Ferguson, digital participants had the chance to discuss and ask questions. The interview series provided an intense personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 focused on their individual research, career paths and experiences.…

Nikita Sud is Professor of the Politics of Development at the University of Oxford. She is Governing Body Fellow and Vicegerent of Wolfson College, and a faculty member of the Oxford Department of International Development. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, educated at the Universities of Delhi and Oxford. Nikita’s research…

We offer custom data solutions using cutting-edge technologies based on AI and machine learning and we are building a kind of SaaS platform connected to Salesforce to automatise predictions. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Foresight, Nonprofits.

The nominating institute Charité on the breakthrough: Petra Ritter has developed “The Virtual Brain”, a computational platform for the virtualization of brain structure and function. It uses novel concepts from computational, cognitive and clinical neuroscience. By using personalized data, patient-tailored models are created to better understand pathomechanisms in the brain,…

DreamSpace Academy is a Community Innovation Centre which was created to tackle authentic socio-economic and environmental challenges using Project Based Learning (PBL). Our mission is to empower creative minds through Maker Education, to create innovative solutions using Open Innovation, and ultimately leading them to become successful social entrepreneurs. It is…

Municipal waste, which includes domestic rubbish (garbage) and some industrial and building waste, is usually consigned to landfills. These may vary from holes in the ground to engineered sites designed to protect the environment from pollution by run-off waters and leachates. Zahrat Al-Finjan landfill is located in Jenin Governorate. It.…

Our project is aimed to train kids aged (8-14) years coding, so they can be able to program their own programs and games. Also training kids how to design simple educational projects using robots and electronic circuits. We have a cooperation with Iraqi private schools to introduce our courses to…

Biodegradable plastics have existed for several years now and have been marketed as a means to fight the global plastic waste crisis. But even in the best cases, the process of degrading this plastic can be incredibly slow. It would take a typical water bottle 2-3 years to biodegrade in…

Tags: Diversity, Education, Science Communication, Trust in science.

Taking third place was Srilahari Namani of India. She presented a computer-aided method to rapidly identify different species of mosquitos which can be used locally to prevent diseases transmitted by mosquitos.

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious”, Albert Einstein said. “It is the source of true art and science.” In her project, the internationally renowned photographer Herlinde Koelbl places the main focus on this playfulness, the amazement which is driving every researcher: A formula, a philosophy, a…

Set the saponin extraction method, formulate the biofungicide product, evaluate its effectiveness against phytopathogen in different crops. Tags: Bio-Tech, Circular Economy, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture.

Markus Rex and Stefanie Arndt have respectively led and participated in the MOSAiC expedition. Between 2019 and 2020 the German icebreaker Polarstern spent a year drifting through the Arctic Ocean trapped in ice. The goal was to improve the understanding of the full seasonal cycle of processes and interactions in…

The world has clear goals on reducing CO2 emissions to limit catastrophic climate change. But society needs chemicals – fuels, fertilizers, precursors for plastics and pharmaceuticals – where do these come from if we must reduce and eventual stop fossil fuel use? With easy availability of low-cost renewable electricity comes…

Voice of nature art installation uses a living tree to uncover the impact of climate change in real time. In collaboration with the scientific partner Stefano Mancuso of the LIVN lab of the University of Florance and the sensor department of the Technical University of delft Artist Thijs Biersteker Developed…

Future of Forests – Dramatic Impacts of Climate Change Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. In this Falling Walls Circle Table,…

Our project is a narrow-spectrum therapy to deal with A. baumannii infections and in a long term provides a modular protein expression system that can be used to design new proteins for other species.   Tags: Bio-Tech, Engineering, Global Cooperation, Med-Tech, Science Communication.

Improving Global Health is a fundamental challenge, in which science and technology play important roles. Whether it is ultra-fast sequencing of whole genomes, mRNA vaccines or gene editing: Recent innovations could change and improve the life of millions of people around the world. But only if science can make it…

Cindy Ow transforms cancer signalling pathways into otherworldly musical opuses, highlighting cancer mutations with auditory distortions.

Cystic fibrosis remains one of the most common fatal genetic diseases, as well as the most common fatal hereditary lung disease worldwide. In recent years, medical scientists have made intensified attempts at understanding the disease mechanism at the core of cystic fibrosis, namely the defect in the CFTR protein. In…

Gendered Innovation and International Community Learn more about the history behind the Gender Summits, the need for a ‘systems change’, and the linkage between gender sensitive research and excellence in science by joining Prof. Dr Ruth Morgan in the third panel of this series. The panelists are Prof. Dr. Rana…

My project is about finding the protein aggregates as the pathophysiology of preeclampsia Tags: Health Science.

Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature and is essential for understanding the behavior of the Universe. This research introduces the development of our understanding of gravity. Also the graviton is related to the geometry of the universe which therefore obviously controls the geometry of…

COVID-19 has hit the NGO sector hard, with the closure of study centres and workshop facilities, compounded by uncertainty about future re-openings. For many organizations, the transition to offering classes and learning content online has been beset with challenges, as there are few affordable platforms with the necessary infrastructure to…

How Robotics and Digital Data Will Change the Future of Agriculture The history of agriculture is one of constant evolution and a fair share of ground-breaking revolutions. Domesticated animals, employed to do some of the back-breaking work formerly done by farmers themselves, were replaced by tractors about a hundred years…

Nominated by: Serge Cosnier, University Grenoble Alpes Presented by: Jules Hammond

Ready to take a deep dive into the Top 10 breakthroughs in the Physical Sciences category? This Winners Session will take you from the bottom of the ocean all the way to outer space to explore the most remote living environments. Learn about new ways to observe climate-related changes on…

The nominating institution Worcester Polytechnic Institute on the project: The concert series pairs scientists with artists (composers, performers, dancers) around a central theme. The artists work with the scientists to develop musical works that reflect, represent, comment on, or are otherwise inspired by the research and concepts of the scientific…

Aquí Nos Cuidamos is a project of the nonprofit Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) that promotes COVID-19 prevention and the well-being of vulnerable and marginalized communities in Puerto Rico through a culturally relevant multimedia education, community engagement, science and solidarity. To read the speech in Spanish, please click here. / Para leer el…

Diamond on the Soles of their Feet is an inclusive citizen science project focusing on groundwater monitoring in Hout Cachment in the Limpopo province. Through graphic facilitation, storyboards and participatory methods such as network mapping and the “river of life”, the project involves actors at various levels – from local…

Medical Adhesive Revolution has developed a new technology which can seal internal and external wounds. We have developed the only known product capable of both functioning as a hemostat and as a sealant inside the body. To be used by surgeons, it seals wounds and stops bleeding within seconds. As…

The two most common mental health issues, depression and anxiety, are also the leading cause of disability globally. The economic impact and societal ramifications are increasingly being recognised and a cultural and policy shift in the way mental health disorders are perceived and tackled is already underway. However, much remains…

At Kvark Science Show, science meets entertainment and collaborates to create an event never before seen in Europe. The main goal of the show was branding knowledge as a superpower thus making STEAM more interesting and intriguing to students, children, and adults. During the show, two performers displayed and explained…

Li-ion batteries are currently the most potent and widely used energy storage concept. To render the use of Li-Ion Batteries sustainable, suitable recycling concepts are urgently needed.

To attain the full potential promised by quantum technologies, joint efforts to cross borders between countries, continents, science and industry is an absolute necessity. In this Round Table talk, the status, future development and the applications of quantum technologies will be discussed with scientists, managers and international officials. The event…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Londa Schiebinger, digital participants had the chance to discuss and ask questions. The interview series provided an intense personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 focused on their individual research, career paths and experiences.…

PRESENTED BY Jannis Fischer NOMINATED BY Stiftung Technopark Zürich Tags: Nuclear Medicine, Medical Technology, Medical Imaging, PET ,PET Scanner

A gender equality and menstruation normalisation project. A very simple solution to change the interactions in the public toilet: a very common and public place designated to very private activities. Tags: Discrimination, Diversity, Future /green cities, Gender, Social Cohesion, Sustainability & Gender Equality.