Jana Dreston

We used to plan cities according to a master plan, building separate areas with different functions and reconnecting them by car. This approach shapes our cities until today, even though our ways of life and needs for the city have changed. The panelists at this Falling Walls Circle Plenary Table discuss which shifts are needed…

PRESENTED BY Evelina Vågesjö NOMINATED BY Uppsala University Tags: Bio Tech Therapeutics, Wound Healing, Pharma, Cell and Gene Therapy, Drug Development

Mariëlle van Kooten won second place at the Falling Walls Lab Finale 2019. Her app unites scientists and the general public through simple images, enabling the inspection of complex, large-scale data to improve human health.

Uzair Masood installs wall-mounted vending machines that dispense menstrual hygiene products in female restrooms at public places and workplaces where women are involved, making menstrual hygiene management more convenient.

The world has clear goals on reducing CO2 emissions to limit catastrophic climate change. But society needs chemicals – fuels, fertilizers, precursors for plastics and pharmaceuticals – where do these come from if we must reduce and eventual stop fossil fuel use? With easy availability of low-cost renewable electricity comes…

Thomas Gasser and Ferenc Krausz in conversation – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 What does it take to achieve a scientific breakthrough and how can it impact the world around us? On the last Summit Day Ferenc Krausz, 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, and Thomas Gasser, the recipient of…

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…

Our project involves installation of mobile breastfeeding booths in public places. The booths are unique, private, clean and gives mothers a comfortable place to breastfeed. We aim to increase EBF levels.

Romanian Science Festival (RSF) is an initiative that aims to popularise STEM subjects among young people in Romania. We use sciences to set off their lifelong inquisitiveness and thrust for knowledge. That is why our motto is ‘Don’t get bored! Always be curious!’ We reach our goal firstly by providing…

We offer custom data solutions using cutting-edge technologies based on AI and machine learning and we are building a kind of SaaS platform connected to Salesforce to automatise predictions. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Foresight, Nonprofits.