Josef Lange

The nominating institute Max-Planck Institute on the project: Progress in biology and medicine hinges on the availability of powerful tools, as was made clear again by the current pandemic. The imminent next revolution in biology will be driven by the exploration of emergent physical phenomena at cellular scales, like the…

The nominating institution KIT on the breakthrough: Electronic signal processing suffers from limited bandwidth. This wall can be teared down by combining electronics with photonic circuits and with optical frequency combs as ultra-precise clocks. This approach unlocks a wealth of applications – from ultra-fast data communications to material analysis via…

The nominating institution Yale School of Management on the project: Global Virtual Teams (GVT) is a proven innovation with intensity, scale and scope. The course introduces students to research on what makes global teams succeed or fail and help them develop the skills to work on projects with teams spread…

Aleksey Makarov’s project aims to develop various size replaceable ventilation-installed bioreactors. The bigger ones are meant to be applied in malls, apartment or office buildings, the smaller ones – in a house.

Due to technical problems, this falling walls breakthrough conversation could not be recorded in full. In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Aline Sara, Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Future Learning. She…

The global presence of steroid hormones in water (even after traditional treatment methods) is causing harmful effects on humans, animals, and the environment. The combined use of membrane technology and photodegradation in a single process can produce large amounts of water free of steroid hormones using solar light as an…

PRESENTED BY Jacob Bossaer NOMINATED BY BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Tags: Drinking Water, Global Water Challenges, Water Scarcity, Water Crisis, Water 4 All, Sustainability, Water Management

Maltiti Mohammed is addressing the environmental and human health impacts of plastic waste in Ghana by proposing a sustainable solution – a clothing and accessories company that exclusively uses recycled plastic. By melting and extruding plastic into filaments, then turning them into yarn for fabric production, his project aims to…

Nominated by: Shikma Litmanovitz, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Presented by: Doron Tamir

CODE’s learning concept fundamentally changes the way we think about higher education. It empowers its students to learn everything they need in order to be successful in a world dominated by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and technology. With its educational concept based on self-directed, project-based, and curiosity-driven learning, CODE enables…