The Cerro de Monserrate sits on top of Bogotá’s city center. It overlooks the urban area, with its hectares full of forests, where hiking means immersing in biodiversity. This same nature struck Juan Carlos Sesma, who – back in 2015…
In the 3D Delta Week Brainport Eindhoven shares knowledge about Additive Manufacturing. One of the companies is Weber Beamix which 3D prints with concrete. This is the fourth story in a series on 3D printing and additive manufacturing. Read the…
Locked-in syndrome is a rare neurological disorder. It is often triggered by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable degenerative disease of the motor nervous system. Affected individuals run the risk of losing complete muscle control while consciousness and mental functions…
Clinical care geriatrician Carolien van der Linden stated in the Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant that we should “get rid of the fatalistic attitude that falling is just part of life as you get older”. This was in response to…
Northern Europe countries don’t enjoy the same amount of sun as the Mediterranean ones, while the wind is not missing. Offshore wind farms are deemed to be key in increasing their share of energy coming from renewable sources. Germany, Belgium,…
A crisis like the corona pandemic calls for decisive measures. The EU has freed up €723.8 billion in an effort to use the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to pull the European economy out of the recession caused by corona.…
In Germany this summer, regional public transport can be ridden for 9 euros a month. Innovation Origins is taking this opportunity to visit a number of future projects. In this edition, we travel to Germany’s largest solar park in the…
It is estimated that by 2050 the population on the Earth would reach 9.9 billion. This means that traditional farming will be insufficient to feed all the people. The result of this is a call for food industry transformation. iFarm‘s…
When you imagine the medical procedures of the future, you soon think of (robotic) surgeons wearing VR glasses, infrared images that light up vessels in the body, and lifelike 3D images. That future is closer than one may imagine. With…
Higher education will change radically in the next ten years. We call these changes disruptions. The essence of such a disruption is that the customers and clients of a traditional provider, in this case, our traditional system of higher education,…