Tatjana Geukens

Born out of the #WirVsVirus hackathon in March 2020 and further developed at #EUvsVirus, LabHive.org is an online-tool to match qualified researchers and labs offering their under-utilized resources (labour, equipment, reagents, experience with lab techniques or data analysis) and needs of diagnostic laboratories. This innovative concept emerged as a response…

We use creativity to foster global progress. We gather resources from various fields, to address complex issues and find innovative solutions. We use curiosity to attract people into spaces, topics, issues, and challenge their point of view in regards to social problems and perception of reality, without forcing our own…

The nominating institution Yale School of Management on the project: Global Virtual Teams (GVT) is a proven innovation with intensity, scale and scope. The course introduces students to research on what makes global teams succeed or fail and help them develop the skills to work on projects with teams spread…

To combat hearing loss associated with using earphones, Victoria Kolesnikova proposes using special apps to control and limit sound impact.

Shujaaz network connects young people with the information, skills and resources they need to take control of their own lives; embedding them in a digital and real-world community that gives them the self-belief to succeed, in their context and on their terms. The HMBA program – An MBA for hustlers-…

With his GPS tech and field methodology, Jan Breinbauer is reducing around 30% of pesticides used in Chile.

The nominating institution SCHOTT on the breakthrough: SCHOTT is the first company to mass produce ultra thin alumino-silicate glass, as required for foldable mobile display covers. Thickness below 0.1 mm allows for bending radii below 2 mm, after a so-called chemical toughening process. The glass is produced directly in the…

In cooperation with the VolkswagenStiftung and WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Falling Walls was hosting this unique format to connect researchers in the social sciences and humanities from all over the world. The symposium gathered the 2021 Winners in the Social Sciences and Humanities category as well as partners from…

To remove heavy metals from produced wastewater, Praise Eromosele proposes using sawdust, a natural adsorbent from wood factories, in place of the more expensive methods, ultimately creating a sawdust “cycle”.

The basic motivation for the project was the curiosity of how the environment looked like near the South Pole during the last time the planet underwent extreme greenhouse climate conditions ~90 million years ago. Can we define extreme potencies of atmospheric carbon dioxide contents but also underline how significant the…