Falling Walls Science Summit 2022

BENYAMIN ROSENTAL - BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV

Breaking the Wall to Stem Cell Transplantation for Corals Cell-Therapy

Benyamin Rosenthal developed a technology to isolate and transplant coral stem cells as a base for future cell-therapy for instinct reef corals.

DEMIS HASSABIS – DEEPMIND

Breaking the Wall to Protein Structure Prediction

Demis Hassabis led the team that created AlphaFold, the AI system for precise protein structure imaging that enabled the most accurate and complete picture of the human proteome, and has predicted the structure of every protein known to science.

EVAN EICHLER – UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Breaking the Wall to the Complete Sequence of a Human Genome

Evan Eichler completed the remaining 8% of the human reference genome, presenting for the first time its complete 3.055 billion-base pair view.

IAIN COUZIN - MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANCE

Breaking the Wall to Understand Individual and Collective Decision-Making

Ian Couzin’s research revealed fundamental geometrical principles according to which animals' brains cope with environmental complexity to achieve effective decision-making.

JASON CHIN - MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Breaking the Wall to Reprogramming the Genetic Code

Jason Chin created the largest synthetic genome, whose cells are fully resistant to viruses and enable genetically encoded polymer synthesis.

MARCUS MALL - CHARITÉ – UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN

Breaking the Wall to Cystic Fibrosis Treatment

Marcus Mall led a clinical study of a combination therapy with three CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) modulators showing 90% efficiency rate.

PIRO LITO - MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER

Breaking the Wall to Inactivate Mutant KRAS for Cancer Treatment 

­­­Piro Lito’s research led to the approval of sotorasib, the first KRAS inhibitor in 40 years to be approved for the treatment of lung cancer.

RANDALL PLATT – ETH ZURICH

Breaking the Wall to Measuring Gut Health Using Sentinel Cells

Randall Platt created sentinel cells that reveal gut composition and can serve as a biomedical tool for disease diagnostics.

STEFANO SACANNA – NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Breaking the Wall to New Fundamental Understanding of Cell Biology

Stefano Sacanna built minimal-ingredient abiotic cells that can target, ingest, process, and expel foreign objects from microplastics to living bacteria.

TOBIAS MOSER - UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN

Breaking the Wall of Hearing Restoration

Based on his contribution to gene therapy targeting inner ear synapses, Tobias Moser and his team prepare the first in-man trial for gene therapeutic and optogenetic approaches for hearing restoration.

ALEX ZYLSTRA & ANDREA KRITCHER - LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY

Breaking the Wall to Self-Heating Plasmas

Alex Zylstra and Andrea Kritcher generated self-heating fusion plasmas, which makes the discovery a key scientific milestone towards net gain and energy applications.

ANTHONY KUCERNAK - IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

Breaking the Wall to Cheaper Hydrogen Fuel

Anthony Kucernak developed new "single atom" catalysts which can replace platinum as the active component in electrochemical devices to produce cheaper hydrogen fuel.

LUCIANO REZZOLLA - GOETHE UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT

Breaking the Wall to the First Image of Black Holes

Luciano Rezolla constructed a computational infrastructure to perform numerical simulations and generating the intricate synthetic images that helped the Horizon Telescope to confirm first black holes.

NATHALIE PICQUÉ – MAX-PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM OPTICS

Breaking the Wall of the Limits of Interferometry

Nathalie Picqué developed the dual-comb interferometer that can be used in spectroscopy and holography and offer unique features such as frequency measurements, accuracy, precision, and speed.

PETER BAUM – UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANCE

Breaking the Wall to Visualize Material Transformations on Atomic Dimensions in Space and Time

Peter Baum created the microscope electron beam with the optical cycles of laser light that made possible to visualise material transformations on atomic dimensions.

ROMAN FASEL - SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Breaking the Wall to Atomically Precise Carbon Quantum Materials

Roman Fasel developed an approach for the atomically precise fabrication of low-dimensional carbon nanomaterials that can be used in carbon-based quantum devices.

SEBASTIAN KLEMBT - UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG

Breaking the Wall to Topological Transport of Light

Sebastian Klembt successfully used concepts from topology that allow multiple lasers to emit a uniform source of light coupled with a defined wavelength and phase.

SILKE OSPELKAUS-SCHWARZER - LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER, INSTITUTE OF QUANTUM OPTICS

Breaking the Wall to the Molecular Quantum World

Silke Ospelkaus-Schwarzer develops methods for cooling and trapping complex molecules to enable the future formation of a BEC (Bose-Einstein condensate) from diatomic molecules.

STEFAN ULMER - RIKEN, INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL SCIENCES

Breaking the Wall to Matter-Antimatter Comparisons

Stefan Ulmer performed several world record matter-antimatter comparisons including studies of antimatter dark matter couplings and the first differential study of antigravity.

YANG SHAO-HORN – MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)

Breaking the Wall to Deep Decarbonization

Yang Shao-Horn applied universal principles to uncover key mechanisms of electrolyte degradation, design new electrode surfaces, and new electrolytes to enhance high-energy Li-ion batteries.

ALDO STEINFELD – ETH ZURICH

Breaking the Wall to Producing Sustainable Fuels from Sunlight and Air
Aldo Steinfeld demonstrated the stable operation of the entire thermochemical solar fuel production chain to drop-in fuels from sunlight and air.

CARSTEN STREB – UNIVERSITY OF MAINZ

Breaking the Wall to On-Demand Solar Fuels

Carsten Streb created a molecule based on the rare metal ruthenium that can store solar energy and use it to release hydrogen on demand.

HUISHENG PENG – FUDAN UNIVERSITY

Breaking the Wall to Flexible Fiber Batteries

Huisheng Peng invented the first fiber polymer lithium-ion battery that can be woven into breathable battery textiles and used for flexible, wearable, and implantable electronics.

JAMES COLLINS - BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT & HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Breaking the Wall to Inexpensive, Wearable Diagnostics

James Collins prototyped a face mask with incorporated cell-free biosensors that can detect Covid-19 infection and provide diagnostic for other diseases.

JOHN ROGERS - NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Breaking the Wall to Digital Health Monitoring

John Rogers developed flexible biocompatible forms of electronic, optoelectronic, and microfluidic systems to enable minimally invasive integration with soft tissues of the human body.

MAZHAR ALI – DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Breaking the Wall to One-Way Superconductivity and Faster Electronics

Mazhar Ali created the Josephson Diode, a one-way superconductor that allows superconducting electronics in a faster and more energy efficient way.

PHILIP WALTHER AND ROBERTO OSELLAME – UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, ITALIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

Breaking the Wall to Neuron-Like Quantum Computers

Philip Walther and Roberto Osellame created quantum memristor that combines AI and quantum technology, can act on quantum states, and encode and transmit quantum information.

TING XU – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKLEY

Breaking the Wall to Programmable Plastic Degradation Through Enzymes

Ting Xu developed enzyme-embedded polymers that afford on-demand modification and/or programmable plastic degradation during manufacture, utilization, and disposal.

XIA CHUAN AND ZENG JIE, YU TAO - UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Breaking the Wall to Recycling CO2 to Tackle Food Crisis

Xia Chuan, Zeng Jie and Yu Tao created a hybrid electro-biosystem that efficiently converts CO2 to glucose and can be extended to produce fatty acids and other food additives.

YI LONG - NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Breaking the Wall to Smart Windows

Yi Long created scalable smart windows using a solution process to regulate radiative cooling (RC) automatically, giving up to ~ 10% of energy saving in buildings compared with commercial windows.

EEVA LUHTAKALLIO - UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

Breaking the Wall to Recognizing Visual Politicization

Eeva Luhtakallio’s project ImagiDem addresses the visual dimension of the public sphere and political participation of young Europeans.

HEIDI J. LARSON - LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE

Breaking the Wall of Rumors and Rejection of Science

Heidi J Larson leads the Vaccine Confidence Project where she researches the attitudes towards vaccines in neoliberal contexts. 

NIKITA SUD – UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Breaking the Wall to the Making of Land

Nikita Sud’s research explores the ways in which human-nature interactions shape the social life of the land, and its relationships with history, memory, state authority, and the idea of property.

RACHA KIRAKOSIAN - ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITY FREIBURG

Breaking the Wall to Neuromedievalism

Racha Kirakosian established an explorative lab that unites medievalists with neuroscientists to elaborate a new theory of mental images.

SERENA PAREKH - NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

Breaking the Wall to Understand the Depth of the Global Refugee Crisis

Serena Parekh offers a two-dimensional analysis of the current refugee crisis to emphasise the moral obligation of modern societies to provide refugees with conditions of human dignity.

SHEILA JASANOFF - HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL

Breaking the Wall to a Global Observatory on the Ethics of Human Genome Editing

Sheila Jasanoff serves as a Director of the Global Observatory for Genome Editing and researches the implications of gene editing and its ethical aspects.

SUNIL AMRITH – YALE UNIVERSITY

Breaking the Wall to Reimagining Environmental Justice in Historical Perspective

Sunil Amrith argues for a new perspective on environmental history with focus on the problematics of environmental harm accelerated in tandem with human inequality, deepening unfreedom und global migration. .

SUSHRUT JADHAV – UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Breaking the Wall of Oppression and Social Defeat in the Clinic

Sushrut Jadhav developed a method of radical intervention and political therapy to address discrimination and social defeat among Indian Dalit and “upper” casts.

ULRIKE FELT – UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA

Breaking the Wall to a Different Understanding of Innovation in Societies

Ulrike Felt critically explores the concept of innovation to study the past and the possible future of innovation societies.

VICTORIA REYES-GARCÍA - ICREA, UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA

Breaking the Wall of Knowledge Systems to Understand Local Climate Change Impacts

Victoria Reyes-García’s project Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts (LICCI) aims to bring indigenous and local environmental knowledge into policy-making processes and climate crisis negotiations.

ANDREAS TJELDFLAAT – FRAMLAB

Breaking the Wall to Cooler Cities

Andreas Tjeldflaat’s project Oversky presents a futuristic take on eco-friendly city building using zeppelin technology and heat-reflection that turn houses into shaded microclimates.

CHRISTIAN KOSMAS MAYER – DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Breaking the Wall to the Vocal Sounds of an Ancient Mummified Body

Christian Kosmas Mayer synthesized a voice using data from CT scans of a 2000-year-old Egyptian mummy’s vocal tract and created an instrument that produces changing human vocal sounds.

DORA BARTILOTTI – INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Breaking the Wall of Violence in Cities through Textile Fabrics

Dora Bartilotti creates electronic textiles and participatory electronic art pieces to draw attention to the female victims of enforced disappearance in Mexico.

EMEKA OGBOH – INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Breaking the Wall to Migration Through Our Senses

Emeka Ogboh’s project Stirring the Pot interrogates the experiences of migration through a unique balancing of five basic human senses.

GIL WEINBERG - GEORGIA TECH SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Breaking the Wall of Mistrust between Humans and Robots through Music and Dance

As part of Gil Weinberg’s project FOREST, a deep learning network was trained to generate emotion carrying sounds to accompany emotional human-inspired gestures for non-anthropomorphic robots.

HOLLY HERNDON – INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Breaking the Wall of Digital Identities

With her digital avatar Holly+ Holly Herndon explores the economy around her digital avatar by allowing users to create art with her AI voice and image.

LIBBY HEANEY - INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Breaking the Wall to Visualizing invisible Processes within a Quantum Computer through Art

Libby Heaney wrote her own code for IBM's quantum computers to reveal unique signatures of entanglement & used these to create a new visual language visualizing the invisible processes inside a quantum computer. 

MONIKA SEYFRIED, CYRUS CLARKE, JEFF NIVALA – DATA GARDEN

Breaking the Wall to Organism-Based Data Centers

Data Garden is an organism-based data center and an interactive installation of a carbon negative data infrastructure that features tobacco plants and Arabidopsis containing text, image, and sound files in their DNA.

SOFIA CRESPO – INDEPENDENT NEURAL ARTIST

Breaking the Wall to Visualize Endangered Species through AI

Sofia Crespo uses images from the natural world and convolutional neural networks to interpret them exploring the limits of available data to engage with critically endangered species.

TOM CORBY, GILES LANE - CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS - UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON

Breaking the Wall to Understanding Climate Change through Art

Materialising Data: Embodying Climate Change is a series of artworks that translate climate data into images to promote better public understanding of climate abstractions.

ALINE SARA – NATAKALLAM, USA

Breaking the Wall to High-Quality Digital Language Services with Impact

NaTakallam offers digital language services such as language classes, translation, virtual interpretation, and cultural exchange delivered by refugees through the digital economy.

ANDREW PRESTON – CASSYNI, UK
Breaking the Wall to Accessible Online Seminars

Cassyni helps researchers to organise and publish seminars using AI to extract information to make the recorded vide discoverable, accessible, and citable for others.

BRUNA ENNE – SINALIZA, BRAZIL

Breaking the Wall of Deaf Students Accessing Higher Education

Sinaliza Enem is an online platform that offers learning and teaching materials in Brazilian sign language and includes a donations program to provide scholarships for low-income deaf students.

DANIELA LABRA CARDERO – EDUCATING FOR WELLBEING, MEXICO
Breaking the Wall to Scalable Programmes for Student and Educator Well-being

The project aims to transform learning environments and provides policymakers with a scalable, evidence-based approach to embed SEL in the public preschool system.

JONATHAN MENDONCA – REHNUMA, INDIA
Breaking the Wall to Online Training and Research in Under-Resourced Schools

Rehnuma is an online training and research lab for school principals to rapidly scale innovation in under-resourced schools.

JULIA LEDUC – ANYMATE ME, GERMANY

Breaking the Wall to Synthetic Video Production for Accessibility

Anymate Me is an AI-powered web platform for creating training videos via text input or audio that includes an automatic translation service for more than 20 languages.

LUMA MAKARI – ELGORITHM FOR SCHOOLS, LEBANON

Breaking the Wall to a Digital Mental Health Programme for Youth in the Arab World

Elgorithm for Schools is a digital mental health program for Arab youth aimed at fostering trauma-informed and supportive school environments in vulnerable communities.

MÓNICA A. RAMS LI – MUSA, PERU

Breaking the Wall to Micro-learning Methodology to Reframe Training Contents

Musa is a mobile microlearning solution with integrated WhatsApp Chatbot to democratise education accessibility and address the need to up- and reskill the Latin American workforce.

STEPHANIE JONES - SEL KERNELS OF PRACTICE, USA

Breaking the Wall to High Impact, Low Burden SEL

SEL Kernels are a low-cost and flexible programme that integrates SEL (social emotional learning) skills and habits into the daily routines and activities of schooling.

VINCENT WIDMER – BEEKEE, SWITZERLAND

Breaking the Wall to High-quality Education for Underprivileged Communities

Beekee is a platform that provides access to preloaded educational material and supports interactive learning applications available on students’ smartphones in offline mode.

ANURAAG SINGH – TECHNEXT, USA

Breaking the Wall to Transforming Science and Technology through Quantitative Forecasting

TechNext strives to transform the R&D industry by quantitative technology forecasting through better understanding of technology dynamics, scientific literature, and venture funding.

BRIAN NOSEK – CENTER FOR OPEN SCIENCE, USA

Breaking the Wall to Improve the Research Culture

Center for Open Science aims to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research to facilitate better knowledge transfer and make outcomes of research openly accessible.

CHRISTOPHER KYBA – NACHTLICHTER, GERMANY

Breaking the Wall to Understanding the Cause of Light Pollution

With the Nachtlichter („Nighlights”) app citizen scientists can count and classify artificial light sources to evaluate their contribution to the growing light emissions.

FABIO TERRIBILE – LANDSUPPORT, ITALY

Breaking the Wall to Open-Access Tools for Agriculture, Forestry and Land Management

LANDSUPPORT is an open-access GeoSpatial Decision Support System (S-DSS) that supports sustainable agriculture and forestry and contributes to the implementation of European land use policies.

KUSH R. VARSHNEY – AI FAIRNESS 360, USA

Breaking the Wall to Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

AI Fairness 360 (AIF360) is an open-source Python and R toolkit for algorithmic fairness in high-risk application domains such as mortgage lending, hiring, pretrial detention and others.

LONDA SCHIEBINGER – GENDERED INNOVATIONS, USA

Breaking the Wall to Harness the Creative Power of Sex and Gender Analysis

Gendered Innovations programme employs methods of sex, gender, and intersectional analysis to enable advancements across numerous disciplines.

MARIE LOUISE CONRADSEN - THE OPEN DISCOVERY INNOVATION NETWORK, DENMARK

Breaking the Wall to Accelerating Drug Discovery and Paving the Way for Innovation

The Open Discovery Innovation Network (ODIN) promotes more efficient drug discovery knowledge transfer via patent-free university-industry collaborations in precompetitive research projects.

MANU PRAKASH – FRUGAL SCIENCE, USA

Breaking the Wall to a Better Access to Science

Manu Prakash creates low-cost high performance scientific tools and projects such as the world’s biggest microscopy community aimed to bring science closer to the public.

RACHEL KROPA, ROBERT DOWNEY JR. – FOOTPRINT COALITION SCIENCE ENGINE, USA

Breaking the Wall to Innovative Fast Grant Models to Fund Environmental Research

Science Engine enables scientists to share and crowdfund their research on climate and biodiversity crises by engaging directly with the platform’s audience.

VOJTECH NOSEK - EXPERTS.AI, CZECH REPUBLIC

Breaking the Wall to Using Data and AI to Remove Barriers Between Academy and Industry

EXPERTS.AI is an AI-powered platform that facilitates the transfer of academic knowledge into practice by crunching scientific data to link companies and investors with top science.

AIR COMPANY - USA
Air Company developed a technology that uses captured carbon dioxide to sustainably produce consumer and commodity goods at higher quality and lower cost than those made from fossil fuels.

ARGENTAG – ARGENTINA
ArgenTAG develops long-read sequencing applications to access critical health information stored in human cells, which allows for earlier diagnostics and better medical treatment of preventable diseases.

AXOLOTL BIOSCIENCES – CANADA
Axolotl Biosciences makes novel bio-inks for 3D printing of human tissue models that can be used as a tool for drug discovery.

BEFC – FRANCE
To provide biodegradable energy BeFC produces low-cost, low-environmental-impact, digital sensing tags powered by paper biofuel cells.

BIOTX.AI GMBH - GERMANY
biotx.ai aims at revolutionizing drug development by using WIDE DATA algorithms to effectively examine genomic data.

BYGEN - AUSTRALIA
Bygen invented a new way of making activated carbon sustainable, cheaper, and carbon negative.

C1 GREEN CHEMICALS AG – GERMANY
C1 Green Chemicals AG patented a new production process of green methanol from non-fossil feedstocks by employing quantum-chemical simulation and computer simulation.

CELLVIE AG - SWITZERLAND
cellvie is pioneering Therapeutic Mitochondria Transplantation, a novel treatment approach aimed at the cellular energy metabolism.

CHEMIFY – UK
Chemify aims to digitize chemistry using platforms capable of chemputation – these are modular, universal, scalable, and teachable systems for better chemical & drug discovery, chemical synthesis, and materials discovery.

COMPULAR – SWEDEN
Compular helps material developers create better products faster with a groundbreaking software which simulates and predicts material properties of new complex materials.

ELYPTA - SWEDEN
Elypta created a low-cost and scalable blood and urine screening test for early detection of cancer that detects approximately twice as many stage I tumors as competing technologies measuring DNA.

GRAYMATTERS HEALTH - ISRAEL
GrayMatters Health’s technology Prism aims to revolutionize treating of mental disorders by creating digital markers of brain areas and teaching patients to control them volitionally.

INCIRT GMBH - GERMANY
InCirT develops semiconductor-IP solutions using ground-breaking transceiver technology that enables ultrafast wireless communication.

JUPITER IONICS – AUSTRALIA
Jupiter Ionics is developing a breakthrough electrochemical process to make carbon-neutral ammonia using water, air, and renewable energy to speed the global transition to net zero emissions.

MOTORSKINS - GERMANY
MotorSkins creates smart textiles and wearables morphing textile surfaces with embedded fluidics for well-being, medtech, aerospace, automobile, fashion, and VR industries.

NEURONOSTICS - UK
Neuronostics uses mathematical modelling to develop biomarkers that enable faster, objective and more accurate diagnosis of epilepsy.

ONEGO BIO LTD – FINLAND
Onego Bio is a cell ag company producing bioalbumen, animal-free egg white protein with precision fermentation.

PROSION GMBH - GERMANY
With a disruptive platform of ProMs chemical building blocks, PROSION offers a new therapeutic method of unlocking protein targets linked with cancer and other hard-to-treat diseases.

PUNA BIO - ARGENTINA
Puna Bio uses microorganisms called extremophiles to develop biological inputs for agriculture that increase yields, reduce carbon emissions, and restore degraded soil.

Q.ANT – GERMANY
Q.ANT provides novel sensors and photonic computing chips based on their Quantum Photonic Framework technology that utilizes quantum effects at room temperature.

QPHOX – NETHERLANDS
QphoX is building the first quantum modem, which will help scale quantum computers and connect them into a future quantum internet network.

RANDOM POWER S.R.L. (RAP!) - ITALY
RaP! developed a True Random Bit Generator for key generation with the aim to provide a secure, cost-effective, robust, and tiny device for the IoT, automotive and mobile markets.

RIBBON BIOLABS - AUSTRIA
Ribbon Biolabs produces long DNA molecules to replace classic recombinant technologies to accelerate biopharma innovation.

SAMSARA ECO - AUSTRALIA
Samsara Eco created plastic-eating enzymes that break down plastics into their molecular components, which can be used as virgin equivalent inputs in new plastics or upcycled to more valuable commodities.

TUBULIS GMBH - GERMANY
Tubulis uses the potential of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) to develop differentiated treatment options and leverage meaningful therapeutic benefits for cancer patients.

AGNES FÖRSTER – REVIERA, GERMANY
“REVIERa” is an interdisciplinary platform that addresses the complex challenge of coal phase-out and combines local transformation activities with global sustainability goals to shape the Rhenish mining area as a model region.

AMBER ABRAMS - MUSEUM OF WATERY RELATIONS/WATER MAP, SOUTH AFRICA
The project draws on multidisciplinary water research to map and co-produce knowledge around various relations with water and develop an online interactive map of water users, sources, and uses.

LAURA CAROLINA JARAMILLO - EAFIT CHILDREN’S UNIVERSITY, COLOMBIA
“EAFIT Children’s University” is an education and Science Engagement programme designed to bring academia closer by creating active learning experiences and fostering critical thinking.

ANNA BERTI SUMAN - SENSING FOR JUSTICE (SENSJUS), ITALY
The project researches the potential of grassroots-driven environmental monitoring as a source of evidence in environmental justice litigation, and as a tool for environmental mediation.

CARRIE BOYCE – SCIENCE IS A DRAG, CANADA
“Science is a Drag” is the first fully science-themed drag show created to challenge cis- heteronormative stereotypes of scientists and provide a safe platform for queer scientists and science communicators.

CHARLES PHILIPP - MICRO MUSEUMS, USA
MICRO is a network of tiny science museums designed to remove barriers to museum access and transform the role museums play in the public conversation about science.

DARSHANA JOSHI - RURAL STEM CHAMPIONS FELLOWSHIP, INDIA
“Rural STEM Champions” is a STEM fellowship program focused on students from rural backgrounds and marginalized communities.

JAIME ANTONIO MENDOZA GONZALES - TECNONAUTAS - HÉROES DEL PLANETA, BOLIVIA
“Héroes del Planeta” (Heroes of the planet) uses storytelling to teach children about climate change through animated videos with a main character and nature elements as secondary characters.

JÉRÔME CÔTÉ- NEURO-SHOW, CANADA
“Neuro-Show” is a theatre performance with integrated scientific content that engages its audience to discuss scientific topics with invited researchers.

JOSHUA SALAZAR MEJÍA – OFFLINEPEDIA, AUSTRIA
“OfflinePedia” is a multimedia system aimed at combating digital divide through downloadable academic content created using e-waste such as outdated computers and TV sets as well as open-source software.

LAILA BERCHANE – EMPOWERING GIRLS IN RURAL AREAS THROUGH STEM, MOROCCO
Laila Berchane’s project uses STEM and robotics to boost girls’ confidence and give them a new perspective on education and their professional life.

LAURA HENDERSON – FRONTIERS FOR YOUNG MINDS, SWITZERLAND
“Frontiers for Young Minds (FYM)” is a free-of-charge, open-access kids’ science journal, engaging kids in the research process by peer reviewing journal articles written by top scientists.

MICHAEL MUMBO - ADVENTURE IN THE PLANTS KINGDOM, KENYA
Through outdoor activities and better understanding of plants the project promotes the knowledge about the importance of plants and their role in the preservation and conservation of ecosystems.

MIKI IGARASHI - DANCING SCIENCE SHOW, JAPAN
Through her TV science shows that mix science with hip-hop dance Miki Igarashi strives to put more people in touch with science regardless of their environment or gender.

OTUO-AKYAMPONG BOAKYE - CLIMATE SMART TREE PLANTING, GHANA
The project uses the science behind tree planting to innovatively cleanse air, sequester carbon, create habitat for arboreal animals and initiate pockets of urban forest around sanitation related areas in Ghanian urban areas.

SANDOR KRUK - ROMANIAN SCIENCE FESTIVAL, GERMANY
The festival aims to popularize STEM subjects among schoolchildren in Romania and uses mentor programmes to connect with children from underrepresented communities promoting accessibility and inclusion.

THABISO MASHABA - INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION NETWORK, BOTSWANA
“International development innovation network (IDIN-SADC)” enables a global community of changemakers to design, develop and disseminate innovations that improve the lives of people living in poverty.

THEO ANAGNOSTOPOULOS – ECOSYSTEM, GREECE
"EcosySTEM" is a pilot project that aims to connect students from the local Pomak minority students with neighboring school communities through STEM environmental education and out-of-school workshops.

TIM RADEMACHER – THE WITNESS TREE PROJECT, CANADA
“The Witness Tree Project” aims to reconnect people and in particular students with trees and forests using real-time environmental data published as readable messages via automated social media accounts.

VAISHALI SHARMA - YOUNG TINKER ACADEMY, INDIA
“Young Tinker Academy” is a tinker space where school students collaborate and learn hands-on skills working with indigenous Indian communities.