Aidan McCullen

HOW OPEN DATA MAKES URBAN LIFE SMARTER The idea of sustainable urban planning is usually connected to images of green areas, efficient public transportation and futuristic buildings. But it is the information and telecommunications infrastructure that determines the city’s ability to face the many challenges of creating a livable, prosperous…

Barbadians have a history of plant usage for health stretching back to the period 1600s to 1800s. Our population is mainly of African descent and rural communities still hold dear to the knowledge base. This is being hampered, however, due to loss of biodiversity and traditional knowledge. Our project has…

Racha Kirakosian is Professor of Medieval German at the University of Freiburg. She previously held positions at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. Her breakthrough project combines medieval history with neurosciences, especially neuropsychology in the field of mental imagery. The ability to see images in front of the “inner…

The nominating institution DAAD on the breakthrough: Treating your vagus nerve can help to break walls between people. It controls how our heart is beating, and is responsible for many phenomena ensuring a positive social functioning. Laborde started his research career because of the headbutt of Zidane in 2006, willing…

To provide education to our students preparing them for an ever-changing environment, Tecnológico de Monterrey decided to set up a new learning model (Tec21), aligning all its processes and components from the institutional vision to the specific learning of students. The new model seeks to prepare graduates not only professionally…

In celebration of #IYPT, we created a year-long campaign called #MyFaveElement. It centered around a series of short videos featuring a Berkeley Lab scientist describing their favorite element. One had a personal story of how understanding the structure of carbon triggered a lifelong love of chemistry. We then invited anyone…

Mobilising the power of innovation to address societal and environmental challenges. The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) was established in 2017 as a five-year global knowledge platform, coordinated by the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, the Centre for Global Challenges at Utrecht University, and Ingenio in…

Following the tracks of ancient civilizations, Jawaad Issoop’s project democratizes building as the solution uses the material that is excavated, and the system allows anyone to build to their own convenience.

We have developed an open platform for remote control of scientific equipment with live video for desktop and mobile devices. Supporting material guides the students through the lab at various levels, up to graduate students. The platform currently focuses on plasma physics but can be easily adapted for other fields.…

We are building an AI Researcher to help us leverage our exponentially growing scientific knowledge. Iris.ai is an almost 6-year-old European startup, founded with a double bottom line – for profit and for positive global impact. We want every scientist and innovator in the world to have all knowledge they…