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News from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI)

Design Thinking Impact

Europe’s biggest Design Thinking Hub “HPI School of Design Thinking” is celebrating its 15th anniversary.

DWIH New York field trip

Sustainability Initiatives on Governors Island

The annual DWIH focus topic “Sustainable Innovations” encapsulates a broad range of applications, so the DWIH New York Team wanted to experience what this could look like on the ground. The team went on a field trip to Governors Island, located in the New York Upper Bay, to learn about local sustainability initiatives.

Wingcopter

Drone Startup Wingcopter Speeds Up Race for Vaccine Delivery

German startup Wingcopter is delivering medication and COVID-19 vaccines to the farthest corners of the world.

Ada Health

The Doctor App Will See You Now

Using A.I. to provide personalized medical advice, Ada Health is bringing the doctor one click away.

Market and Opinion Research by Civey

Discovering What Germany Thinks

Using machine learning-powered algorithms, a Berlin-based company is modernizing opinion polling by making it transparent, automated and fully digital.

Ecosia

Planting Trees with Search Results

A non-profit based in Berlin just celebrated planting one million trees. Ecosia works just like Google or Bing, except 80-100% of their ad revenue is reinvested in tree planting projects around the world.

aula

Shaping School Together

In recent years, digital developments in education have become an increasingly important and pressing topic. Many educational institutions are in the early stages of digital learning and are beginning to implement new digital concepts. This is one of the reasons why Marina Weisband launched the project aula – Schule gemeinsam gestalten in 2014.