Breaking the Wall of Official Urban Landscape Katya Assaf Zakharov, Tim Schnetgöke Social Sciences & Humanities Breaking the Wall of Official Urban Landscape This project seeks to reveal the nature of graffiti prohibition as content-based speech regulation. It will unearth the practice of favoring messages conforming to prevailing narratives and aesthetic standards. This research is very timely given the role of graffiti in the recent “Black Lives Matter” uprisings. The authors’ groundbreaking proposal… Watch Video Share
Social Sciences & Humanities Breaking the Wall of Official Urban Landscape This project seeks to reveal the nature of graffiti prohibition as content-based speech regulation. It will unearth the practice of favoring messages conforming to prevailing narratives and aesthetic standards. This research is very timely given the role of graffiti in the recent “Black Lives Matter” uprisings. The authors’ groundbreaking proposal… Watch Video Share
BREAKING THE WALL OF SUSTAINABLE SYNTHESIS Engineering & Technology BREAKING THE WALL OF SUSTAINABLE SYNTHESIS In his 3-minute talk, titled “Breaking the Wall of Contamination”, Quirin demonstrated a fully developed method for cleaning and recycling chemical products. The current solutions for synthesizing pharmaceutics heavily depend on toxic catalysers. These elements need to be isolated in chemical processes, which are costly and energy-intensive. Based on highly… Watch Video Share
Engineering & Technology BREAKING THE WALL OF SUSTAINABLE SYNTHESIS In his 3-minute talk, titled “Breaking the Wall of Contamination”, Quirin demonstrated a fully developed method for cleaning and recycling chemical products. The current solutions for synthesizing pharmaceutics heavily depend on toxic catalysers. These elements need to be isolated in chemical processes, which are costly and energy-intensive. Based on highly… Watch Video Share
BREAKING THE WALL OF PRE-TERM BIRTH Life Sciences BREAKING THE WALL OF PRE-TERM BIRTH Dr. Sabrina Badir from ETH Zurich was the jury’s choice and winner of the Falling Walls Lab 2015 with the development of a reliable and easy-to-use device that allows the risk of premature birth to be recognized in time so that appropriate treatments can be started promptly. Watch Video Share
Life Sciences BREAKING THE WALL OF PRE-TERM BIRTH Dr. Sabrina Badir from ETH Zurich was the jury’s choice and winner of the Falling Walls Lab 2015 with the development of a reliable and easy-to-use device that allows the risk of premature birth to be recognized in time so that appropriate treatments can be started promptly. Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of Neuroscience Education for Youth Alexia Ostrolenk Science Engagement Breaking the Wall of Neuroscience Education for Youth 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… Watch Video Share
Science Engagement Breaking the Wall of Neuroscience Education for Youth 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… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall to Communal Scientific Funding Johan Bollen Science & Innovation Management Breaking the Wall to Communal Scientific Funding SOFA proposes a more efficient system to distribute research funding than the present grant proposal review process. All researchers periodically receive an equal and unconditional base amount of funding, but they have to donate a fraction of everything they receive to other researchers of their choice. As such, funding circulates… Watch Video Share
Science & Innovation Management Breaking the Wall to Communal Scientific Funding SOFA proposes a more efficient system to distribute research funding than the present grant proposal review process. All researchers periodically receive an equal and unconditional base amount of funding, but they have to donate a fraction of everything they receive to other researchers of their choice. As such, funding circulates… Watch Video Share
Inclusive Design: Teaching Deaf Students to Programm Sound Experiences Tatsuya Honda Future Learning Global Call Winner Inclusive Design: Teaching Deaf Students to Programm Sound Experiences Students at schools for the deaf design their own sound experiences through Ontenna programming Ontenna is a user interface that can be attached to the hair, earlobe or neck to feel the characteristics of sound through vibration and light. As of June 2021, Ontenna has been installed in more than… Watch Video Share
Future Learning Global Call Winner Inclusive Design: Teaching Deaf Students to Programm Sound Experiences Students at schools for the deaf design their own sound experiences through Ontenna programming Ontenna is a user interface that can be attached to the hair, earlobe or neck to feel the characteristics of sound through vibration and light. As of June 2021, Ontenna has been installed in more than… Watch Video Share
Connecting Generations of Entrepreneurial Researchers to Rapidly Build Effective Research Innovation Ecosystems Benjamin Miles Global Call Winner Science & Innovation Management Connecting Generations of Entrepreneurial Researchers to Rapidly Build Effective Research Innovation Ecosystems Our lean ecosystem generation model, emphasises maximising the number of innovation ideas explored and researchers commercially upskilled while minimising costs to support this activity across a city or economic region. We believe that by raising the level commercial awareness and connecting generations of researchers to existing local innovation activity, this… Watch Video Share
Global Call Winner Science & Innovation Management Connecting Generations of Entrepreneurial Researchers to Rapidly Build Effective Research Innovation Ecosystems Our lean ecosystem generation model, emphasises maximising the number of innovation ideas explored and researchers commercially upskilled while minimising costs to support this activity across a city or economic region. We believe that by raising the level commercial awareness and connecting generations of researchers to existing local innovation activity, this… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of Novel Earthquake Forecasting Marco Bohnhoff Physical Sciences Breaking the Wall of Novel Earthquake Forecasting Bohnhoff et al. develop an entirely new scale-invariant and process-oriented approach to unravel earthquake nucleation and rupture physics. This bears enormous potential for future generations of adaptive seismic hazard assessment at major tectonic plate-boundaries and associated risk at colocated population centers. This will also critically improve mitigation of man-made seismic… Watch Video Share
Physical Sciences Breaking the Wall of Novel Earthquake Forecasting Bohnhoff et al. develop an entirely new scale-invariant and process-oriented approach to unravel earthquake nucleation and rupture physics. This bears enormous potential for future generations of adaptive seismic hazard assessment at major tectonic plate-boundaries and associated risk at colocated population centers. This will also critically improve mitigation of man-made seismic… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of Tropical Skin Diseases Elias Barbosa 2023 Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of Tropical Skin Diseases Elias Barbosa is addressing neglected tropical diseases, affecting over a billion people and leaving chronic sequelae, by developing experimental models for leishmaniasis and Hansen’s disease using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The project aims to accelerate the development of regenerative therapies to address both the diseases and their chronic sequelae,… Watch Video Share
2023 Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of Tropical Skin Diseases Elias Barbosa is addressing neglected tropical diseases, affecting over a billion people and leaving chronic sequelae, by developing experimental models for leishmaniasis and Hansen’s disease using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The project aims to accelerate the development of regenerative therapies to address both the diseases and their chronic sequelae,… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall to a Youth-Led Science World Oscar Contreras-Villarroel Science Engagement Breaking the Wall to a Youth-Led Science World Bayer Kimlu Science Fellowship has the aims to shape the next generation of STEM leaders in Latin America. Each year we select 40 young people (age 14-18) to be part in a 10 days STEM-leadership science camp in which their develop their science competences and leadership skills. After this, they’re… Watch Video Share
Science Engagement Breaking the Wall to a Youth-Led Science World Bayer Kimlu Science Fellowship has the aims to shape the next generation of STEM leaders in Latin America. Each year we select 40 young people (age 14-18) to be part in a 10 days STEM-leadership science camp in which their develop their science competences and leadership skills. After this, they’re… Watch Video Share