The Grimms’ fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin tells the story of a gnome who knows how to spin straw into gold. A real-life German start-up in Hamburg is doing exactly that: they turn a bio-based waste product into modern gold –…
In the future, we will be using more and more sustainable energy, generated by wind turbines and solar panels. However, this energy is subject to weather conditions. This makes electricity storage systems indispensable. Ocean Grazer devised a hydroelectric power plant…
This phenomenon sprung from the platform’s members during the corona pandemic, says Ingelou Stol, co-founder of Fe+male Tech Heroes. “At the beginning of the pandemic, it was all of sudden compulsory to work from home. That took some getting used…
Up until 2009, Denmark led the world in CO₂ carbon capture and storage (CCS). This came to an abrupt end when a farmer on the island of Jutland opposed a CO₂ pipeline that was to be built on his land;…
The Austrian company RadioLED has started to roll out a high-speed WiFi network in the Dutch municipality of Apeldoorn. This is quite visible because white boxes hang from lampposts here and there. In total, this involves the installation of the…
The Brussels-based start-up Axiles Bionics has developed a bionic prosthetic for people who have an amputated foot.The start-up received 500,000 euros of funding from Innoviris, the Brussels Capital Region’s Institute for the Promotion of Scientific Research and Innovation, to make…
Textile dyes still contain harmful chemicals for which no efficient, sustainable alternative has yet been found. Black pigments from waste materials could form part of the solution. Synthetic textile dyes are often derived from non-renewable petrochemical compounds. If not processed…
Being in charge of who uses your data, this is possible. Together with imec, universities in Flanders are teaming up under the name SolidLab to explore the potential offered by data vaults. The government is allocating €7 million for the…
The Netherlands is once again leading the way in mobility: in no other European country is the electrification of city buses going as fast as it is here. In 2020, more than 80 percent of new city buses were fully…
CO2 and nitrogen reductions, circularity, cost savings, increased speed of execution… it’s all on the already crowded plate of the construction industry. The architects, structural engineers, preparers, contractors, builders, and finishers: all have to deal with an ever-increasing mountain of…