Christoph Kirsch

Teamwork coordinated by Justyna Olko breaks down walls between academia and local communities, combining multidisciplinary, decolonising research with participatory activities that promote language revitalization and ethnic minority empowerment. These endeavours have shown that the use of local heritage languages improves health and well-being and protects against historical trauma, fostering ‘communities…

PRESENTED BY André Ibisch NOMINATED BY TU Dortmund Tags: Intelligent Observation, Monitoring, Public Transportation, Retail Industry

Cemalcan Uslu is tackling the challenges of Aphasia, a language disorder stemming from brain damage, with his innovative software concept, Speechia. This interdisciplinary project merges linguistics and medicine, offering a tailored 5-step approach to assist individuals with Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia, enhancing sentence formation and comprehension through speech recognition, language…

Fostering sustainable fisheries needs robust science and engagement of stakeholders. My project is built on the joint execution of large-scale field experiments in cooperation among scientists and angler communities to generate high quality ecological knowledge co-produced by science and stakeholders. The experimental work was paired with intensive science communication activities,…

How Open Systems and New Incentives Will Redefine Healthcare We already knew that “sharing is caring”, but what about “sharing is curing”? Digital disruption might soon hit the established system of patents and publishing in biomedical industry and academia respectively – a system ruled by reward structures centered on property,…

Lucie Ries is addressing the high energy consumption in water desalination processes, making them expensive, by introducing RealEase patented technology to lower the energy consumption for industrial desalination. The goal is to drive the next generation of equipment and make water purification more accessible and sustainable for a broader population.

The mission of OzGrav is to capitalise on the historic first detections of gravitational waves to understand the extreme physics of black holes and warped spacetime, and to inspire the next generation of Australian scientists and engineers through this new window on the Universe. The Centre brings together the Australian…

Nominated by: Keren Primor Cohen, Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Presented by: Shmulik Hess

UTAS’s mission is “A place where we do things for Tasmania and from Tasmania”. Its strategy and implementation are geared to improve life for Tasmanians in six areas: Educational Attainment, Health, Economic Performance, Social Inclusion, Cultural Participation, and Environmental Sustainability. It deploys outcome indicators to measure and manage progress in…

Impact of COVID-19: How has the pandemic affected how we do science? Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. The COVID-19 pandemic…