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Nominated by: Evonik Venture Capital GmbH Presented by: Omer Blaier

Coronalogy is a 40-day long exercise undertaken by a group of communicators to introduce one topic related to COVID-19 pandemic per day, during the initial days of nationwide lockdown in India. One topic was chosen per day and was introduced in a 150-word long article. This article was published in…

According to Sarah Martell, hydrogen is a promising clean fuel source to replace fossil fuels. Although hydrogen fuel is considered clean and sustainable, common production methods are unsustainable and emit CO2. Her solution is to synthesize a material called porous silicon nanoparticles derived from abundant starting materials. By simply adding…

In a project funded by the Federal Foreign Office, our students designed a collection of board games. Each game transforms a different aspect of politics into a board game. All board games are available as Print-and-Play PDF versions, all source files are available under a Creative Commons license, for easy…

PRESENTED BY Ashutosh Singh NOMINATED BY University of Calgary Tags: Graphene

The COESO project fosters the growth of citizen science/participatory research in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). We do so by engaging with and bridging three key communities: 1) the European social sciences and humanities community, 2) the citizen science community, and 3) the open scholarly communication community. As an…

Solace is an anonymous peer to peer, personalized mental health support platform to drastically bring down the cost of treatment and make it accessible to everyone through a B2B model.

The nominating institution National Research Council of Canada on the breakthrough: The pioneered development of quantum dot lasers has revolutionized modern-day digital communications. This technology boosts the fiber communications-network backbone, thereby improving fixed wireless access for rural communities and optical satellite communication for the truly remote. This technological capacity leads…

Stannie Rameliarison and her team teach fruit and vegetable producers how to dry their crops in order to store them longer and provide them with solar dryers and a market where they can sell the dried products.

Intergroup empathy plays an important role in mitigating conflicts that cause the suffering of millions of people worldwide. Unfortunately, people often fail to experience empathy toward outgroup members. We created a hybrid art – science model that is shown to successfully raise the level of intergroup empathy. Our projects are…