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The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a graduate research university in Moscow, Russia. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech cultivates a new generation of researchers and entrepreneurs, promotes advanced scientific knowledge and fosters innovative technology to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. In…

The nominating institution Max Planck Institute on the breakthrough: Wireless, soft, miniature mobile robots, inspired by soft-bodied tiny animals, could navigate and function safely inside the human body. They could be programmed for complex and diverse capabilities never before thought possible. This includes medical device functions, like local drug delivery,…

The nominating institution Arizona State University on the breakthrough: ASU Prep Digital is Arizona State University’s innovative K-12 digital strategy for impacting learning outcomes at scale. Unique to online learning programs, ASU Prep Digital is deeply integrated with the university. More than 200 pathways into the disciplines offer direct access…

The nominating institution Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin on the breakthrough: Open Innovation (OI) offers a different way of doing research to address urgent global challenges. We developed an unique training strategy that empowers early-stage researchers to apply OI concepts into their projects. To embed our training into Berlin’s neuroscience…

There are only twenty-three vaccine preventable diseases today despite hundreds of pathogens which could be vaccine targets and decades of work. Vaccines are very difficult, expensive, and time- consuming to create, develop and distribute. Since Vaxxilon has expertise in carbohydrate chemistry, polysaccharide conjugate vaccines (PCVs) which typically target bacterial pathogens…

Nurudeen Issa and his team are developing an innovative solar-wind hybrid for households and businesses that will offer renewable energy in an affordable way.

Despite a detailed understanding of the constituents of matter, we don’t yet know why matter exists. Precision measurements, able to provide potential answers, are limited by the size of data sets. High data rates are therefore needed in experiments but require exceptional computing power. Traditional CPU-based systems do not meet…

PRESENTED BY Maksym Plakhotnyuk NOMINATED BY University of Illinois Chicago Tags: Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Micro Devices, Nano Devices, Deep Tech , Atomic Layer Processing

With his GPS tech and field methodology, Jan Breinbauer is reducing around 30% of pesticides used in Chile.

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