Harshada Kshirsagar

Agriculture accounts for roughly 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. The d4agrotech research and innovation initiative launched by the province of Lower Austria and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology aims to make food production more climate-friendly and efficient through digitalisation. In this Falling Walls Round Table, experts…

Combating the Pandemic: How a novel approach helps combat the COVID-19 pandemic With almost five million suspected deaths worldwide and counting, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the deadliest disasters in human history. Once its global spread and destructive force became clear at the beginning of 2020, scientists…

With senseBox one can build, create and easily code stationary or mobile devices equipped with sensors for environmental phenomena like temperature, air quality or light pollution. The devices are connected to the internet and submit the measurements to the IoT-platform openSenseMap. The project is a breakthrough because it empowers children,…

The project is included within the regeneration program of the entire Central Park of Mazatlán. The project will offer the complete experience of the marine ecosystems of the Sea of ​​Cortez, as well as the terrestrial ones of its shores. Around and inside the building nature lives alive and growing,…

Chryssie Karera’s project aims to recycle face masks into rulers for school children and into bricks as a sustainable solution.

Eya Boughanmi is addressing the increasing threat of leishmaniasis, a dangerous zoonotic disease, by developing a miniaturised medical analysis device based on biosensor technology. This point-of-care device aims to provide a rapid, accurate, and affordable diagnosis of canine leishmaniosis, ultimately reducing the spread of infectious diseases in Tunisia and protecting…

To solve the plastic waste problem, Koffi Alain Fabrice Kouamé has set up a process called plastic pyrolysis that turns plastic waste into fuel. The resulting fuel has been used by drivers and it is judged to be very effective.

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…

The AQUASENSE project aims to develop a remote water quality monitoring network using autonomous sensors and intelligent data gathering and analysis.

There is a need to enable stable and persistent energy sources for integrated electronics and technologies operating in any strategic environment inaccessible to humans. Francesca Cova is developing a battery prototype based on the light-mediated conversion of radioactive decay energies into electricity, exploiting record-efficient scintillating nanoarchitectures.