Margherita Cappelletto

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.

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…

SMASHfestUK is an inclusive ‘hyerlocal’ science and arts festival for young people and families that was founded to engage underserved/under-represented audiences with STEAM. All activities – ranging from comedy and immersive theatre to interactive game and hands-on experiments – are predicated on an overarching semi-immersive story about an impending disaster…

Eziz Artykov is addressing the water scarcity and land shortage issues associated with rice cultivation in Central Asia by proposing the cultivation of rice as a second crop, with a focus on selecting varieties that ripen quickly and are resistant to adverse conditions. This approach aims to save water and…

Markus Rex and Stefanie Arndt have respectively led and participated in the MOSAiC expedition. Between 2019 and 2020 the German icebreaker Polarstern spent a year drifting through the Arctic Ocean trapped in ice. The goal was to improve the understanding of the full seasonal cycle of processes and interactions in…

McDonald is a visual artist working in painting, drawing, film and sound. Her works explore the origins of life on the planet and the information held within plant life. In ‘A space and time outside,’ she investigates Herbarium plant specimens brought back from the 1825 Franklin Arctic Expedition to explore germination and the potential…

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

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.

Our project focuses on inspiring people into science and technology through astronomy. We take our 12 inch computerised telescope and 8meter portable planetarium to schools and public places in an effort to inspire, engage and empower the next generation of African scientists. We invite kids for a lesson under the…

Astrophysics: How space exploration can answer one of the most pressing questions of all time There is no planet in our solar system quite as fascinating as Mars. For centuries, the red planet has fascinated scientists and the public alike, ultimately leading to one question: Has there ever been life…