Data Garden: Breaking the Wall to Storing Data in Plants Cyrus Clarke, Monika Seyfried 2022 Art & Science Breakthrough Day Talk Science Breakthrough of the Year Data Garden: Breaking the Wall to Storing Data in Plants In our connected world, data is all around us. We generate data, we use data and we store data at an ever-increasing rate. This comes at a price: The data storage industry could soon account for 20% of global energy usage while creating more CO2 than the aviation industry. But… Watch Video Share
2022 Art & Science Breakthrough Day Talk Science Breakthrough of the Year Data Garden: Breaking the Wall to Storing Data in Plants In our connected world, data is all around us. We generate data, we use data and we store data at an ever-increasing rate. This comes at a price: The data storage industry could soon account for 20% of global energy usage while creating more CO2 than the aviation industry. But… Watch Video Share
Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Marius Brand Marius Brand 2021 Engineering & Technology Science & Innovation Management Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Marius Brand In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Marius Brand, 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.… Watch Video Share
2021 Engineering & Technology Science & Innovation Management Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Marius Brand In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Marius Brand, 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.… Watch Video Share
Zeinab Khalil: Breaking the Wall of Superbugs With Soil Zeinab Khalil 2023 Science Engagement Zeinab Khalil: Breaking the Wall of Superbugs With Soil Superbugs are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics and threaten to cause 10 M deaths per year worldwide by 2050. Without a commitment to finding new antibiotic leads now, we will head back into the pre-penicillin era, where a scrape could cost you your life if it became infected. Soils for… Watch Video Share
2023 Science Engagement Zeinab Khalil: Breaking the Wall of Superbugs With Soil Superbugs are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics and threaten to cause 10 M deaths per year worldwide by 2050. Without a commitment to finding new antibiotic leads now, we will head back into the pre-penicillin era, where a scrape could cost you your life if it became infected. Soils for… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of Solar Energy Conversion Frank Dimroth Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall of Solar Energy Conversion The nominating institution Fraunhofer ISE on the breakthrough: Standard solar cells can only convert light of a limited wavelength range optimally while other regions of the sun’s spectrum are not or poorly used. This is mainly influenced by the electronic bandgap of the absorber material. Therefore, the conversion efficiency of… Watch Video Share
Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall of Solar Energy Conversion The nominating institution Fraunhofer ISE on the breakthrough: Standard solar cells can only convert light of a limited wavelength range optimally while other regions of the sun’s spectrum are not or poorly used. This is mainly influenced by the electronic bandgap of the absorber material. Therefore, the conversion efficiency of… Watch Video Share
Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Metin Sitti Metin Sitti 2021 Engineering & Technology Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Metin Sitti Metin Sitti is working on wireless miniature medical robots that can be used for local on-demand drug delivery, fluid pumping, biopsy, and vessel clogging. At Falling Walls, Sitti gave insights into his research, explained how these tiny robots function, and presented them live. Watch Video Share
2021 Engineering & Technology Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Metin Sitti Metin Sitti is working on wireless miniature medical robots that can be used for local on-demand drug delivery, fluid pumping, biopsy, and vessel clogging. At Falling Walls, Sitti gave insights into his research, explained how these tiny robots function, and presented them live. Watch Video Share
Promoting Gender Equality for Innovation Monika Lessl, Simone Menne, Londa Schiebinger , Kumsal Bayazit, Tatjana König, Stefanie Molthagen-Schnöring Science & Innovation Management Promoting Gender Equality for Innovation Promotion of gender equality drives innovation both in science and in industrial organisations. However, we often fail to put scientific knowledge into practice. This Falling Walls Circle Plenary Table explores the following questions: How to implement gender equality to increase the quality of innovation? And who needs to change: decision… Watch Video Share
Science & Innovation Management Promoting Gender Equality for Innovation Promotion of gender equality drives innovation both in science and in industrial organisations. However, we often fail to put scientific knowledge into practice. This Falling Walls Circle Plenary Table explores the following questions: How to implement gender equality to increase the quality of innovation? And who needs to change: decision… Watch Video Share
The Transfer of Technologies to Enhance Innovative Entrepreneurship Jonathan Wareham Global Call Winner Science & Innovation Management The Transfer of Technologies to Enhance Innovative Entrepreneurship Transfer of Technologies: Bringing Deep Tech of Big Science Research to the Market. ATTRACT is a unique funding instrument of the European Commission designed to tap into the world-class deep tech developed by Europe’s world-renowned scientific research infrastructures like CERN, European Southern Observatory, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and some 600… Watch Video Share
Global Call Winner Science & Innovation Management The Transfer of Technologies to Enhance Innovative Entrepreneurship Transfer of Technologies: Bringing Deep Tech of Big Science Research to the Market. ATTRACT is a unique funding instrument of the European Commission designed to tap into the world-class deep tech developed by Europe’s world-renowned scientific research infrastructures like CERN, European Southern Observatory, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and some 600… Watch Video Share
No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis Serena Parekh 2022 2022 Winner 2022 Winner | Social Sciences & Humanities Global Call Winner Social Sciences & Humanities No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis Serena Parekh is a Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book, No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (Oxford 2020), which won the North American… Watch Video Share
2022 2022 Winner 2022 Winner | Social Sciences & Humanities Global Call Winner Social Sciences & Humanities No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis Serena Parekh is a Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book, No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (Oxford 2020), which won the North American… Watch Video Share
From Evidence to Action: Restoring Planetary Health with Science and Collaboration Nicole de Paula, Jean-Claude Burgelman, Patrick Cramer, Felix Dapare Dakora, Abir Haddad, Phaedra Henley 2022 Circle From Evidence to Action: Restoring Planetary Health with Science and Collaboration Restoring Planetary Health with Science and Collaboration? The role of research and applying scientific discovery have proved to be fundamental to both human and planetary health. In many cases, solutions are at hand, but their development and subsequent application must be accelerated to turn evidence into action. This session will… Watch Video Share
2022 Circle From Evidence to Action: Restoring Planetary Health with Science and Collaboration Restoring Planetary Health with Science and Collaboration? The role of research and applying scientific discovery have proved to be fundamental to both human and planetary health. In many cases, solutions are at hand, but their development and subsequent application must be accelerated to turn evidence into action. This session will… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall to Foldable Glass Alexander Glacki Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall to Foldable Glass The nominating institution SCHOTT on the breakthrough: SCHOTT is the first company to mass produce ultra thin alumino-silicate glass, as required for foldable mobile display covers. Thickness below 0.1 mm allows for bending radii below 2 mm, after a so-called chemical toughening process. The glass is produced directly in the… Watch Video Share
Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall to Foldable Glass The nominating institution SCHOTT on the breakthrough: SCHOTT is the first company to mass produce ultra thin alumino-silicate glass, as required for foldable mobile display covers. Thickness below 0.1 mm allows for bending radii below 2 mm, after a so-called chemical toughening process. The glass is produced directly in the… Watch Video Share