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Dang Huyen Chau of the TU Dresden was the jury’s choice and the overall 1st place winner of the global Falling Walls Lab Finale 2016. Dang presented her research on recycling oil-rich coffee grounds in order to offer an alternative biofuel.

MAD-learn is Mobile App Development for every classroom. This web-based tool empowers any teacher—not just technology teachers—to engage students in app development, from a book review app in English class to a drawing app in Art class. Using the design-thinking process, MAD-learn prepares today’s students for tomorrow’s careers. Students use…

Debayan Dasgupta is addressing the challenge of treating untreatable diseases, such as bacterial infection in dentinal tubules and cancer microtumors, by proposing the use of remotely guided magnetic nanorobots as nanosurgeons for targeted treatment. His innovative approach aims to overcome the limitations of modern medicine and effectively treat disease sites…

Nominated by: Jano Costard, SPRIND – Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation Presented by: Mar Fernandez Mendez

Piero Beraun is addressing the environmental and health concerns associated with synthetic inks in the textile industry by proposing an industrial-scale extraction of pigments from macroalgae. This environmentally friendly solution involves using seaweed as a sustainable resource for fabric dye, offering an alternative to the polluting synthetic inks currently prevalent…

PRESENTED BY Boas Bamberger NOMINATED BY Freie Universität Berlin Tags: HR Tech, Online Assessments, Your Skills your Job, Human Resources, Recruiting, Gamification

Kai-Wen Yang has developed an innovative medical device that can perform minimal open reduction and internal fixation to unite the vertebral compression fracture.

In third place was the Israeli Shani Elitzur from Technion for her innovative renewable energy concept. Her research focuses on safer and more demand-based hydrogen production, which offers potential for storing electrical energy from aluminium-water reactions.

How Social Science Combats Unfree Labour in the Global Economy We tend to think of the cruelties of slavery as a thing of the past, something that humanity has largely overcome. This assumption is false. Globally, there are some 46 million people in slavery, according to Kevin Bales, Co-Founder of…

How embracing Disorder in nanotechnology may lead to Quantum Machines While most of us are just trying to keep up with the latest marvels of the digital age, like talking smart phones and robotic vacuum cleaners, some are focused instead on finding ways to reinvent computing altogether. One of the…