Manon Sarah Littek

Carmen Noëlie Abla Eklou-Adegnoh suggests setting up well-equipped, solar-powered computer labs in rural areas from recycled containers. This way, students will receive ICT-relevant training to help their education and develop good ICT skills.

A New Green Cutlery Based on Biodegradable Polymer & UAE Date Palm Waste.   Tags: Energy, Engineering, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture, Green Tech, Ocean pollution, Renewable energies.

We have selected suitable material for primary school students and we have conducted a small campaign to engage students. Students during the isolation period, in-home conditions (with the help of adults) perform experiments, challenges, and the same are presented on social networks. This relieves them of the stress of closure,…

Deep ocean extreme environments – sites of immense beauty, wonder and intrigue – harbor unique and unimagined microorganisms that thrive at radically different pressure, temperature, salinity, and pH regimes compared to those on land or in the surface ocean. State-of-the-art genomic and computational approaches will guide targeted discovery of unique…

This Winners Session features the Top 10 breakthroughs in the Social Sciences and Humanities category. Learn about societal philosophy and other philosophical approaches to understand our current society: from living in a society of singularities to providing a new ethical and philosophical framework for the 21st century, from a cultural…

PRESENTED BY Lubomila Jordanova NOMINATED BY BMW Foundation, Herbert Quandt Tags: Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction, Sustainability, Climate Action, Corporate Sustainability, CO2 Emissions

Science Communication in Crisis – Could we do better? Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. While the world has been battling…

The nominating institute EPFL on the breakthrough: Reward-based learning underlies important aspects of human and animal behavior, and recent advances reveal detailed understanding of the underlying neuronal mechanisms in mice. Precise optical and electrophysiological measurements, optogenetic perturbations and computational analyses uncover fundamental mechanisms of brain function during simple forms of…

Iain Couzin is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and of the Excellence Cluster “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His work aims to reveal the fundamental principles that underlie evolved collective behavior and he studies a wide range…

BrainReach is an outreach programme that provides free bilingual neuroscience education to students in underserved neighborhoods in Montreal and remote indigenous communities of Quebec. Volunteers visit the same classroom every month to deliver interactive workshops. The mission of BrainReach is to educate school students on how their brains function, reduce…