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Infarm

IoT, Meet Farming

68% of the world population is projected to live in urban areas by 2050, adding another 2.5 billion people to urban areas, according to UN estimates (2018). Cities will increasingly have to develop sustainable ways of meeting the demands of their growing urban populations. Included is the area of agriculture. 

RECENSO

Recycling. Just More Efficient.

A majority of consumer goods are made up of high-tech polymers, but the lifespan of these polymers is steadily decreasing, and the possibilities of recycling them are limited. The increasing volume of plastic waste worldwide represents a major environmental challenge, and the elimination of end-of-use plastics is a key to developing an efficient closed-loop economy.

Dycle

How Diapers Become Fruit Trees

On average, one baby goes through 4,500 diapers in its lifetime. Once diapers are disposed, they contribute to 10% of household waste. In this way, in Germany, around 500,000 tons of disposable diapers are incinerated every year, producing waste which amounts to more than 12,000 trucks in a row. Ms. Ayumi Matsuzaka intends to target this issue through her Berlin-based startup Dycle.

The Fitness Studio for Your Brain

NeuroNation

Although physical fitness has long been considered central to a healthy lifestyle, brain training’s potential has not yet become cemented in the collective consciousness. NeuroNation aims to make people more aware of the importance of cognitive fitness.

Call for Applications

College for Life Sciences

The College for Life Sciences is a unique program of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study, to promote excellent early-career postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences and medicine.

Germany’s “Future of Work” Campaign

Hosted by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the “Future of Work” campaign seeks to acquire international cooperation from three countries on topics such as education and big data, industry and networking, workplace and society and more.

The Laws of Code: Fighting for Ethics in Algorithms

Bertelsmann Stiftung

Algorithms influence our daily lives quietly without us knowing. They determine what gets displayed on our newsfeeds, which jobs we get interviewed for and for which loans we are eligible. But what are the consequences of machines judging people?