Victoria Kolesnikova

Programming subjects has put tremendous mental pressure on the learners resulting in the emotional state of the learner being impacted. I have designed and developed a smart courseware known as explorelet to focus on learning object-oriented programming by emphasizing both the cognitive and affective domains. Explorelet provides a personalised and…

Nurudeen Issa and his team are developing an innovative solar-wind hybrid for households and businesses that will offer renewable energy in an affordable way.

An environmentally friendly chemical compound used as a high-quality shield in X-ray attenuation. The chemical compound is characterized by its flexibility and ease of formation. Tags: Bio-Tech, Circular Economy, Digital Health, Engineering, Environment & Nature, Future /green cities, New Work, Trust in science.

How Micro- and Optoelectronics Lead to Transparent and Paper Transistors If you are happy that your mobile phone does not weigh 1 kilogram and cost $4000 like the first handheld model from 1973, you will appreciate the efforts of Elvira Fortunato, who is working on making technology as cheap and…

How Polar Exploration Propels Climate Research To New Levels Over the past years international teams of scientists have been undertaking fundamental on-the-ground research in the planet’s polar regions to document the changes that are occurring and gain a better understanding of global climate change. A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…

The nominating institution Frauenhofer IZM on the breakthrough: Melanie Jaeger-Erben is dedicated to transdisciplinary and transformative research crossing boundaries between technology and society, environment and economy. In her research she brings together stakeholders from different societal sectors to foster joint actions for the SDGs. Her projects bridge the gap between…

Randall Platt is an Associate Professor of Biological Engineering at the ETH Zurich. Platt studied biomedical engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. In 2011 he obtained an MPhil from Imperial College London in material science and in 2016 a PhD from MIT in biological engineering. After…

Over the last 30 years, a large body of scholarship has shown that high-quality practices in social and emotional learning can make a substantial difference in children’s educational experiences, and may serve as a powerful lever for transforming children’s learning and positive behavior at scale. Specifically, research indicates that preparing…

The world has clear goals on reducing CO2 emissions to limit catastrophic climate change. But society needs chemicals – fuels, fertilizers, precursors for plastics and pharmaceuticals – where do these come from if we must reduce and eventual stop fossil fuel use? With easy availability of low-cost renewable electricity comes…

Perspectives and Challenges in Quantum Computing – Falling Walls Circle Plenary Table 2023 Quantum computing has emerged as a revolutionary technology that promises to transform various fields, from drug discovery to optimization problems and cryptography to artificial intelligence. However, many of these applications are still in the distant future. This…