Gunjan Chauhan

Eliakim Kouakou Isaac Kouadio is tackling the impediment of electricity shortages in agro-pastoral development in Africa, adversely affecting farmers’ yields and rural villages. His solution involves the development of a chip, VK 001, which extracts chemical electricity from plants, providing green electrical energy to vulnerable populations without conventional electricity sources.

Neuroprosthetics: How electronics can be used to mimic the biology in our brain The human brain is made up of anything between 80 and 100 billion neurons. How exactly these basic working units communicate with each other and transmit information through electrical impulses at the synapses, is a crucial matter…

Nominated by: JST – Japan Science and Technology Agency Presented by: Amane Kimura

Daniel Garavito’s dream is for all human beings to have access to the knowledge of humanity within reach. For this he created CallsToEducate, bringing education to all corners of the world through a simple call.

An ebook service for people with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers. Bookshare is a nonprofit global ebook service for people with reading barriers. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book…

The nominating institution Max Planck Institute on the breakthrough: Wireless, soft, miniature mobile robots, inspired by soft-bodied tiny animals, could navigate and function safely inside the human body. They could be programmed for complex and diverse capabilities never before thought possible. This includes medical device functions, like local drug delivery,…

The recent paradigm shift in cerebellar neuroscience calls for the introduction of mundane technologies to fully unravel the role of the cerebellum in disorders like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or ataxia. A novel approach comprising of optical (fNIRS) and electrophysiological (EEG) measurements can be used as a flexible diagnostic and monitoring tool…

Nominated by: University of Alberta Presented by: Prof. Jana Rieger

The nominating institution Schott on the project: Hundreds of thousands worldwide suffer from retinal degenerative diseases that result in vision loss. Hevonkorpi’s newly developed NR600 implant activates damaged retinal cells to restore vision with a minimally invasive, high-performance device. Tags: Med-Tech

Bruna is the founder of Sinaliza, an Edtech company that offers low-cost, high-quality education for deaf students in Brazil, preparing to Brazilian colleges’ and universities’ entrance exam. Since 2020, Sinaliza has taught over 70 deaf students in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Bruna is an Sign Language Interpreter, has a Bachelor…