How development economics changes the lives of the world’s poorest Esther Duflo Social Sciences & Humanities How development economics changes the lives of the world’s poorest Since the Berlin Wall has fallen, the World has made real progress in the fight against extreme poverty: the number of people living in extreme poverty has declined from 1.4 billion then to 800 million today. The number of children dying under the age of 5 every year has been… Watch Video Share
Social Sciences & Humanities How development economics changes the lives of the world’s poorest Since the Berlin Wall has fallen, the World has made real progress in the fight against extreme poverty: the number of people living in extreme poverty has declined from 1.4 billion then to 800 million today. The number of children dying under the age of 5 every year has been… Watch Video Share
Ayhay Christian School: Breaking the Wall of Inadequate Early Childhood Education Notoavina Ravel Emerging Talents Global Call Winner Ayhay Christian School: Breaking the Wall of Inadequate Early Childhood Education Ayhay is a Montessori-inspired for-profit and national accredited primary school that provides quality education for children in Madagascar with affordable tuition and local Montessori materials. Watch Video Share
Emerging Talents Global Call Winner Ayhay Christian School: Breaking the Wall of Inadequate Early Childhood Education Ayhay is a Montessori-inspired for-profit and national accredited primary school that provides quality education for children in Madagascar with affordable tuition and local Montessori materials. Watch Video Share
BREAKING THE WALL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY Engineering & Technology BREAKING THE WALL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY In third place was the Israeli Shani Elitzur from Technion for her innovative renewable energy concept. Her research focuses on safer and more demand-based hydrogen production, which offers potential for storing electrical energy from aluminium-water reactions. Watch Video Share
Engineering & Technology BREAKING THE WALL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY In third place was the Israeli Shani Elitzur from Technion for her innovative renewable energy concept. Her research focuses on safer and more demand-based hydrogen production, which offers potential for storing electrical energy from aluminium-water reactions. Watch Video Share
Fabrice Cotton: Breaking the Wall of Earthquakes Fabrice Cotton 2023 Breakthrough Day Talk Fabrice Cotton: Breaking the Wall of Earthquakes Fabrice Cotton: Breaking the Wall of Earthquakes – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Earthquakes pose significant dangers to societies, leading to loss of life, injuries, and displacement of people. These events cause extensive damage to infrastructure, disrupt essential services, and have a profound economic impact, requiring substantial resources for recovery.… Watch Video Share
2023 Breakthrough Day Talk Fabrice Cotton: Breaking the Wall of Earthquakes Fabrice Cotton: Breaking the Wall of Earthquakes – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Earthquakes pose significant dangers to societies, leading to loss of life, injuries, and displacement of people. These events cause extensive damage to infrastructure, disrupt essential services, and have a profound economic impact, requiring substantial resources for recovery.… Watch Video Share
High-density Energy Storage: Zinc-Air Batteries Jung-Ho Lee Engineering & Technology Global Call Winner High-density Energy Storage: Zinc-Air Batteries Creating a fibrous and conductive cathode from a mix of copper, phosphorus, and sulfur served as a catalyst, dramatically speeding up oxygen’s reaction with water. This insight produced batteries that could be charged and discharged quickly and had high capacity, 460 watt-hours per kilogram (compared with about 75 Wh/kg for… Watch Video Share
Engineering & Technology Global Call Winner High-density Energy Storage: Zinc-Air Batteries Creating a fibrous and conductive cathode from a mix of copper, phosphorus, and sulfur served as a catalyst, dramatically speeding up oxygen’s reaction with water. This insight produced batteries that could be charged and discharged quickly and had high capacity, 460 watt-hours per kilogram (compared with about 75 Wh/kg for… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of High Blood Pressure Medication Ornella Fenosoa Randrianantoandro Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of High Blood Pressure Medication Manufacture of subcutaneous implant made with Polytetrafluoroethylene, tolerated by human body, releasing continuously the required hypotensive substance at a flow equal to the recommended daily dose. Tag: Med-Tech. Watch Video Share
Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of High Blood Pressure Medication Manufacture of subcutaneous implant made with Polytetrafluoroethylene, tolerated by human body, releasing continuously the required hypotensive substance at a flow equal to the recommended daily dose. Tag: Med-Tech. Watch Video Share
BREAKING THE WALL TO PRECISE GENE SURGERY Emmanuelle Charpentier Life Sciences BREAKING THE WALL TO PRECISE GENE SURGERY How a Bacterial Defence System Revolutionizes Biomedical Research Many past scientific revolutions started with basic research, curiosity and a surprise moment. When Emmanuelle Charpentier and her co-workers were busy studying the defence system used by bacteria to shake off attacking viruses, they knew that this discovery was relevant way beyond… Watch Video Share
Life Sciences BREAKING THE WALL TO PRECISE GENE SURGERY How a Bacterial Defence System Revolutionizes Biomedical Research Many past scientific revolutions started with basic research, curiosity and a surprise moment. When Emmanuelle Charpentier and her co-workers were busy studying the defence system used by bacteria to shake off attacking viruses, they knew that this discovery was relevant way beyond… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of Conventional Teaching Ravi Srinivasan Future Learning Breaking the Wall of Conventional Teaching Forced by the sudden lockdown of their physical campuses in Botswana, Lesotho, eSwatini and Namibia, Botho university went into a partnership with the internet service providers to white list and zero rate their learning management system Blackboard which allowed students uninterrupted access to the learning content 24 hours. Through their… Watch Video Share
Future Learning Breaking the Wall of Conventional Teaching Forced by the sudden lockdown of their physical campuses in Botswana, Lesotho, eSwatini and Namibia, Botho university went into a partnership with the internet service providers to white list and zero rate their learning management system Blackboard which allowed students uninterrupted access to the learning content 24 hours. Through their… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of Wastewater Treatment Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall of Wastewater Treatment Ashwin Charles of Malaysia was awarded the second place for his new and low-cost method of breaking down the pollutants resulting from palm oil production by using solar power. Watch Video Share
Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall of Wastewater Treatment Ashwin Charles of Malaysia was awarded the second place for his new and low-cost method of breaking down the pollutants resulting from palm oil production by using solar power. Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall to Gravitational Energy Hussam Elbehiery Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall to Gravitational Energy 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… Watch Video Share
Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall to Gravitational Energy 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… Watch Video Share