Daria Gross

The nominating institution National University of Singapore on the breakthrough: The current pandemic is disrupting lives and rapid on-site testing is key to containing the outbreak. However, current testing requires samples to be sent to a centralized laboratory and results can take up to a few days to be made…

Classic 4 stroke IC engines are relatively huge, heavy, and have more reciprocating parts which cause a waste of energy to keep reciprocating parts moving and to carry a heavy engine inside a vehicle. Jaloliddin Yunusov, therefore, proposes reducing the total weight, removing reciprocating parts, applying a rotary gas controller…

PRESENTED BY Aadeel Akhtar NOMINATED BY University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tags: Prostethetics, Prosthetic Arm, Prosthetic Hand, Redefining Human

The nominating institution CUHK on the breakthrough: The cryosphere, the planet’s frozen parts, has undergone rapid warming in recent decades, posing profound threats to people and the Earth systems which are closely connected to all the UN SDGs. With innovative use of AI, computer vision, deep learning, and remote sensing…

Sohyun Park is proposing a campaign which encourages people to watch and read contents that they dislike, to express their honest opinion about them and to share it with other people. Tag: Social Cohesion.

The idea behind our series of biodiversity-themed art competitions is simple: we ask kids & teens to make an artwork showcasing their local biodiversity. Artworks (of any kind – paintings, sculptures, and more!) can depict a single animal or plant, or even feature an entire landscape. In each location, a…

This interdisciplinary project links social neuroscience, cognitive psychology, robotics, AI and philosophy with potential for high societal impact. The project examines how the human brain processes social signals exhibited by artificial agents, such as humanoid robots, in order to improve robot design for human-robot interaction in general, and their acceptance…

The first phase of this project is to recycle the liquid cassava waste and collect the sugar waste from the sugar factory. The second phase will be to produce Bioethanol.

The nominating institute Weizmann Institute of Science on the project: Currently, there is not a single treatment available for Alzheimer’s disease. Schwartz’s breakthrough therapy harnesses the power of the immune system to protect and repair the brain. It’s expected to provide the first disease-modifying treatment in Alzheimer’s and dementia. Her…

The Children Math-Art Exhibits were started by Experience Workshop and Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. The goal is that children themselves actively explore new sources of maths and art education through transdisciplinary artworks, which express various connections between mathematics and arts. Any child could submit artworks for the open…