Jens Fahrenberg, Max Riedel

Transfer of Technologies: Bringing Deep Tech of Big Science Research to the Market. ATTRACT is a unique funding instrument of the European Commission designed to tap into the world-class deep tech developed by Europe’s world-renowned scientific research infrastructures like CERN, European Southern Observatory, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and some 600…

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

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…

How to Debunk Myths About the Public Sector and Achieve More Inclusive Growth  How many times do we hear that to increase innovation and competitiveness, we need more market and less state? This commonplace position ignores history: the IT, biotech, nanotech and emerging ‘green’ revolutions have all been initiated by a courageous…

A human and a computer play together, on a grand piano, music for 2 pianists; for example, a Schubert piece. The computer “listens” to the human playing, it recognises, follows, anticipates, adapts to expressive nuances and timing details, adding its own playing decisions, in this way becoming a truly musical…

The story of capitalism is one of the most eurocentric stories we still tell, and one that is still deeply compromised by the ideological struggles of the Cold War. My project aims to globalize the 600 years of capitalism’s history, and to look at it from an actor-centric perspective that…

How Dementia Research Improves the Lives of Patients and Caregivers “Dementia” is the name for a group of symptoms that usually come slowly, often going unnoticed at first by relatives and friends, up to a point they can no longer ignore the changes in the person’s behaviour and personality. At…

Victoria Reyes-García (PhD in Anthropology, 2001, University of Florida) is ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). Her research focuses on the relevance of Indigenous and local knowledge systems in understanding and addressing environmental and climate crises. Climate change is the most urgent and complex problem…

Graphite as it occurs in pencils is a brittle material that does not exactly spur the imagination, but modified into a two-dimensional web of hexagonal structures, it gains extraordinary superpowers. Graphene, a nanomaterial discovered in 2004, is 200 times stronger than steel, conducts both electricity and heat, and is almost…

Is there other life out there? Astonishing findings in recent years and cutting-edge research are bringing us ever closer to answering one of the most fundamental questions in science. The discovery of planets outside our solar system likely to have habitable conditions has thrilled astronomers hunting for a world resembling…