Amit Kumar

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…

The innovation is the paradigm shift from conventional thought of content or knowledge transfer in higher education to designing learning from the mobile student experience. To do this, we had to reimagine the learning experience from a mobile student lens. We reimagined learning and learning design from a mobile learning…

The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army on February 24, 2022 marked a turning point in contemporary history. The ongoing war has negatively impacted scientific initiatives in the Ukraine, since many Ukrainian scientists were unable to continue their research or had to flee the country. This session aims to…

COVID lockdowns and financial crisis have caused stress in families globally, increasing child abuse. With EU funding, social scientists had developed and tested open-source parent support programs. We built an emergency coalition with WHO, UNICEF, CDC, EndViolence & UNODC. We rapidly adapted and translated simple parenting resources into 104 languages.…

Finding expertise & peers within research organization, now, to foster collaboration. Your web-based digital collaboration twin for research organization (academia, corporate or consortia): Makes it easy to access and leverage the most valuable nodes of knowledge within the research world : Research assets + authors. Starting point to faster collaboration…

Atmospheric Forest is an immersive VR artwork by artist duo Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, visualising relations between forest emissions and climate change. It is based on Swiss climate scientist studies on ancient Alpine forests suffering from drought. The VR viewer gets immersed in a laser scanned forest with animated…

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…

Jóse-Alain Sahel elaborated one patient’s journey from having sight, losing it and slowly regaining it after 20 years. He was sharing insights on the process that involves an innovative use of gene therapy, stimulating goggles and lots of training to restore vision for retinal regression.

Transformation of palm fiber into valuable cellulose and its further chemically modification are our effort to develop highly-effective and powerful adsorbent for removal dyes in aqueous media.   Tags: Engineering, Environment & Nature, Ocean Pollution.

Rachel Kropa is Managing Director of Nonprofit and Science at Robert Downey Jr’s FootPrint Coalition, a coalition of investors, donors, and storytellers committed to scaling technologies to restore the planet. FootPrint Coalition’s Science Engine is an initiative that enables scientists to share and crowdfund their research on climate and biodiversity crises by…