Marija Vranic

Nachtlichter (“Night Lights”) is an app that assists citizen scientists in creating outdoor lighting inventories on unprecedented spatial scales. The app was co-created by a team of German citizen scientists together with researchers at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences as part of the Helmholtz Association’s “Nachtlicht-BüHNE” project. While…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Sheila Jasanoff. She talked about her role as Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School, the ethics of genome editing and the importance of doing interdisciplinary research.…

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

The nominating institution Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation on the breakthrough:  TraNSIT Web revolutionises transport infrastructure investments: reducing freight costs, improving supply chain resilience. Using machine learning it cracks IT limitations on big data, modelling >15 million annual freight trips for stakeholders to use in regional infrastructure planning. The…

Nominated by: Agnes von Matuschka, Potsdam Science Park Presented by: Marco Schmidt

For millennia, humanity has pondered the origins of our universe. It was only a few decades ago that new inventions in the realm of space science, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided faint, yet valuable insights into this origin story. This year, its successor, the James Webb Space…

Much of the world’s energy demands continue to depend on fossil fuels. However, mounting environmental concerns and decarbonisation efforts have propelled the development of sustainable processes to produce chemicals, fuels and materials from renewable biological resources. Biotechnology has been making strides and could soon help address a range of global…

The InnovationMom Academy gets moms back on their feet after their biggest change process: Giving birth and becoming a mom. It is their empowerment platform in three steps: 1. “The Powerhouse Activation Formula”, an 8 module online course, getting them into the state of “Yes I can!” enabling a happy…

Dilip Menon was talking about creating a paracolonial framework that goes beyond the nation state, and that looks at the ways in which humanity’s destiny is framed by shared heritages through oceanic connections. In a time of global warming, the rising waters, and vast human migrations, we need a politics…

Bring together and develops the best of two technologies in conjunction- topologically stable nano-skyrmions and fast dynamics of ferrimagnetic materials, thereby breaking out of the trilemma wall. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, Digitalisation, Energy, Engineering, Quantum Technologies, Information/Data storage and processing.