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We have developed an open platform for remote control of scientific equipment with live video for desktop and mobile devices. Supporting material guides the students through the lab at various levels, up to graduate students. The platform currently focuses on plasma physics but can be easily adapted for other fields.…

The Natural Entrepreneurs project guides students aged 14-18 to address sustainability challenges by drawing inspiration from nature. Using STEAM-based designs, teams collaborate on SDG-based challenges for viable solutions. An online platform serves as the project core, fostering European teamwork. Guided by provided materials, teachers and students navigate challenges to solutions.…

Yi Long is a Fellow of the royal Royal Society of Chemistry and currently serving as scientific editor for Materials Horizons. She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK with full Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS), United Kingdom Cambridge Trust, Graduate Scholarship of Selwyn College. Her research focuses on…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Anne Lamp, digital participants had the chance to discuss and ask questions. The interview series provided an intense personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 focused on their individual research, career paths and experiences.…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Maria Leptin, digital participants had the chance to discuss and ask questions. The interview series provided an intense personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 focused on their individual research, career paths and experiences.…

How the Human Brain Project Can Contribute to a Fundamentally New Paradigm of Information Processing While it might seem that the processing power of computers will continue to increase endlessly, waste heat, power consumption and the probability of component failures rise at the same time – and potentially to unmanageable…

The Future of Online Management Education (FOME) alliance is a group of like-minded business schools with collaborating on strategic, international online initiatives. The FOME alliance responds to the following challenges: how can business schools collaboratively respond to the new market demand for accessible, flexible, high-quality online education; and how can…

In the global North, discussions of climate change often carry an undercurrent of fear in terms of anxiety around an “inundation” of rich countries by so-called climate refugees. At the same time, much of the discourse is based on finding financial solutions to the vulnerabilities exposed by climate change, leading…

Despite outperforming boys in science subjects up until grade 8, less than 10% of Pakistani engineering graduates are women. We believe societal pressures and stereotypical fear of math and science inhibits inclination to STEM education and consequent STEM careers for many young girls in Pakistan and globally. Games built around…

The nominating institute Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries on the breakthrough: The importance of freshwater biodiversity contrasts with its low profile in policy and society. Jähnig studies freshwater megafauna, as these large, charismatic animals can function as umbrella species in nature conservation, and act as flagship species…