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Native Scientist connects children and scientists across Europe using a new concept integrating science and language learning (STEM+LANG). Our educational and empowerment programme targets migrant children who are twice as likely to underachieve in science than non-migrants. In school workshops using a speed-dating format, the project brings together 20 children…

A collaboration with psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman (University of Hertfordshire) that aimed to create a new type of magic-based science engagement video. The story of the Apollo Moon landings was illustrated with visual sleight-of-hand magic performed with specially printed playing cards. The video attracted over a hundred thousand views on…

Vojtěch Nosek is the CEO and Co-founder of UNICO (www.unico.ai), a Prague-based tech innovations company. UNICO’s in-depth knowledge of the patent landscape, its interdisciplinary research network, and its own AI-powered EXPERTS.AI platform make it a front-runner in delivering technological innovations based on ground-breaking science. EXPERTS.AI is a smart AI-based matchmaker…

Ahmed Ghazi convinced the jury and won 1st place at the global Falling Walls Lab Finale 2018. Ahmed developed 3D printed injection molds used to create intricate realistic human organs. These models can be used for doctors to rehearse surgeries and reduce the rate of surgical errors.

This project seeks to reveal the nature of graffiti prohibition as content-based speech regulation. It will unearth the practice of favoring messages conforming to prevailing narratives and aesthetic standards. This research is very timely given the role of graffiti in the recent “Black Lives Matter” uprisings. The authors’ groundbreaking proposal…

Agriculture accounts for roughly 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. The d4agrotech research and innovation initiative launched by the province of Lower Austria and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology aims to make food production more climate-friendly and efficient through digitalisation. In this Falling Walls Round Table, experts…

The nominating institute TU Darmstadt on the breakthrough: Species and natural ecosystems are disappearing at alarming rates. This is due to land use, drought and global warming. We’re only beginning to understand properties that stabilise species communities and their interactions. Blüthgen has developed novel methods to understand such ecological networks…

HOW MARINE SCIENCES DISCOVER HIDDEN RESOURCES Even though we are on a planet with more than seventy percent of its surface covered by seawater and a large proportion of its population living along the coastlines of the world’s oceans, we know more about the dark side of the moon than…

Science support for political volunteers. Tags: Circular Economy, Climate change, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture, Science Communication, Science Policy, Social Cohesion, Trust in science.

PRESENTED BY Evelina Vågesjö NOMINATED BY Uppsala University Tags: Bio Tech Therapeutics, Wound Healing, Pharma, Cell and Gene Therapy, Drug Development