Anita Schjøll Brede

Founded in 2016, Plastic Odyssey is a floating laboratory/recycling centre powered entirely by plastics. Their three-year mission will deliver and support low tech solutions in communities across three continents.

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…

Pei Leng Tan is addressing the challenges of skin autografting in managing large burn wounds by proposing a solution involving the delivery of high-density proliferative skin cells encapsulated in biodegradable core-shell microspheres. This innovative approach supports cell proliferation, and upon release at the wound site, the cells expand into epidermal-dermal…

HOW PEER-TO-PEER WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS ARE REPLACING CENTRALISED CONNECTIVITY On 28 January 2011 the Egyptian government, after three days of massive anti-regime protests, mostly organized through social networks, switched off 93 percent of the nation’s Internet. The top-down vulnerability issue of the web was obvious: most individual users are connected…

By developing high-performance non-classical light sources and multi-photon interference, Jian-Wei Pan and his colleague Chao-Yang Lu together with their team have implemented boson sampling with up to 76 photons out of a 100-mode interferometer, which yields a Hilbert state space dimension of 10^30 and a rate that is 10^14 faster…

The nominating institution Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on the breakthrough: The Molecular Foundry provides visiting researchers (“users”) with access to leading-edge scientific instruments. In an innovative twist on the traditional user facility model, users also gain access to world-renowned scientists who devote their expertise to the users’ research goals in…

The project aims at investigating indigenous strains of rhizobacteria that could be used for rhizobia inoculant for use as biofertilizers.   Tags: Bio-Tech, Climate change, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture.

Graphite as it occurs in pencils is a brittle material that does not exactly spur the imagination, but modified into a two-dimensional web of hexagonal structures, it gains extraordinary superpowers. Graphene, a nanomaterial discovered in 2004, is 200 times stronger than steel, conducts both electricity and heat, and is almost…

SprinD is a front-runner organization in Europe with a completely new approach to breakthrough innovation. I does not rely on peer-review-based identification and selcetion processes. Rather it aims at recruiting forward-looking innovation managers to select research and innovation projects which are both research-intensive and application-oriented. Rafael Laguna will be able…

Prof. Fabio Terribile is coordinator of LANDSUPPORT (awarded as “success story” by the European Commission) and explains in his video why LANDSUPPORT is breaking the wall to open-access tools for agriculture, forestry and land management. LANDSUPPORT is an H2020 project aimed at developing a completely free, open-access GeoSpatial Decision Support…