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Our curriculum and science engagements make learning science a fun, hands-on and relevant experience for 3 – 14 year olds. These are offered all-year round through our science clubs running both inside and outside schools. We also train young scientists to be great science communicators through our fellowship program. During…

Kai-Wen Yang has developed an innovative medical device that can perform minimal open reduction and internal fixation to unite the vertebral compression fracture.

Alejandra L. Arredondo is addressing the issue of low blood neutrophil count, a common side effect of chemotherapy and one which predisposes patients to life-threatening infections. Producing neutrophils in the lab on demand will solve many current limitations of neutrophil transfusions.

Professor Heidi J. Larson is the Founding Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project and Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Clinical Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle; and Guest Professor at the University of Antwerp and…

It is a “climate-smart agriculture” concept that includes ecological sanitation to increase agricultural productivity, reduce GHG emissions, and address public health issues in Ethiopia. Tags: Circular Economy, Climate change, Education, Energy, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture, Future /green cities, Renewable energies.

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…

Artist Geraldine Cox works with physicists to find resonant new expression for the beautiful things we have discovered and inspires others to do the same: children construct mobiles celebrating atoms, dancers absorb and emit light, grown-ups cut intricate paper photons for a giant collage of sunlight, and in mesmerising paintings…

The nominating institute Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the breakthrough: Mouncey’s Joint Genome Institute has partners worldwide to facilitate access to groundbreaking genomic technologies. These characterise plants and microbes and their environmental interactions, and ultimately address grand challenges in bioenergy, nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry. Through community collaborations, the JGI team…

The nominating institution CUHK on the breakthrough: The cryosphere, the planet’s frozen parts, has undergone rapid warming in recent decades, posing profound threats to people and the Earth systems which are closely connected to all the UN SDGs. With innovative use of AI, computer vision, deep learning, and remote sensing…

PRESENTED BY Laura Bücheler NOMINATED BY Profund Innovation – Freie Universität Berlin Tags: Haptics, Future of Mobility, Feel it