Helen Burdett

“Heroes of the planet” is a project consisting of educational content to teach kids of 9 to 12 years old about Climate Change. The course consists of animated videos telling stories with a main character (a child named Maywa) and the classical elements (earth, fire, water, wind) as secondary characters…

Hydrogen Energy – Powering Climate Neutrality 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. It is becoming increasingly clear that the world’s energy…

Julia Leduc, co-founder and CEO of Anymate Me, explains why her start up Anymate me is the future of Video Production for academic and corporate training. Anymate Me is a science-oriented deep tech start-up based in Germany. Our mission is to revolutionize linear, costly and time-consuming video production and editing…

The nominating institution Leuphana University on the breakthrough: The Volkswagen foundation has developed a new selection procedure due to the impossibility of absolute objectiveness: In the funding initiative “Experiment!”, part of the funded projects are selected by an independent jury. Additionally, further projects are drawn from those applications that are…

Tech for High School Initiative is providing Internet Computer Technology infrastructures to high schools teaching students and teachers computer skills prior to taking a project-based approach in having students utilize their skills in solving complex problems in Liberia. Introduce a new ICT curriculum to teach students 21st-century skills such as…

My project concerns the application of VLP to a broader context. Many technical solutions exists, but they are not practical. I want to improve robustness, and make large installations possible. Tags: Engineering, Robotic.

While we know from astrophysical observations that dark matter exists, its nature remains a mystery and its detection in the laboratory would be a major breakthrough. While the discovery of dark matter is still outstanding, in 2019 the experiment observed the decay of Xenon-124 atoms for the first time, with…

The incubator will provide the needed temperature continuously, reduce Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDs), and malaria. It will send information wirelessly to the Pediatrician or Doctor. Tags: Digital Health, Digitalisation, Engineering, Med-Tech.

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Maryna Viazovska, winner of the Fields Medal 2022. She talked about her work on sphere-packing. The interview series provided an intimate personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the…

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.