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CODE’s learning concept fundamentally changes the way we think about higher education. It empowers its students to learn everything they need in order to be successful in a world dominated by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and technology. With its educational concept based on self-directed, project-based, and curiosity-driven learning, CODE enables…

Finding and harnessing sources of energy has been a major task in the history of humankind. Similar to the resourceful nature of the sun, man-made nuclear power can produce large amounts of energy from few resources. It includes fusion and fission processes and the pros and cons of fission processes…

How Philosophy Can Provide Frameworks for a Global Biotech Revolution Throughout history, when presented with new technologies, humans as a species have shown a recurring pattern: a tendency for reckless exploitation, often ignoring harmful side-effects and hazards, and only much later pausing to consider the need for ethical reflection and…

PRESENTED BY Eva Wimmers NOMINATED BY Levensohn Venture Partners Tags: Broadcasting, Media Production

As a species, we have a remarkable history of scaling up and distributing new technologies among the world’s population. For centuries, books and letters were precious and limited to a small elite, today the printed word is ubiquitous and production costs are negligible. The most recent democratisation of technology took…

How Deep Learning Can Give Birth to General Artificial Intelligence From chessbots to chatbots and from search algorithms to industrial assembly machines – humanity has arrived at the age of machine intelligence; or at least machine work, if we take seriously a definition of intelligence as “the abilities to learn…

How Sociology Can Mediate Between Islam and Western Modernity The world’s biggest refugee crisis since the second world war is bringing ten thousands of migrants to Central Europe – former citizens of Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan or Somalia fleeing from war, dictatorship or religious extremism. The fact that most of the…

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

LifePorte Educational project implements several educational flagship projects geared towards science engagement and advocacy. These includes Science advocacy for youngsters (SAPFY) and Train-the-trainers Biology workshop (TTTBW). Science advocacy program for youngsters (SAPFY) exposes elementary and high school students to basic science experiments. Students are trained to be creative with scientific…

Learners worldwide are canvasing the internet for help with fundamental courses that students take from junior year in high-school to junior year in college. Subjects like Composition, algebra, and chemistry serve as the foundational gateways on which students thrive or drop out of college. Study Hall aims to provide learners…