Employers can use the social platform EveryAct from the French company Pommine to motivate their staff to contribute to a more sustainable world on a daily basis. Pommine founder Elodie Swanberg explains how EveryAct works. How did EveryAct come to…
“The use of technology in biology is certainly not new,” says Nadine Bongaerts, synthetic biologist and Chief Innovation Officer of the French start-up Gourmey. It is the first French cultured meat company to work on an ethical foie gras made…
Hans de Neve is the founder of Carbyon. The company captures CO₂ from the air so that it can be stored underground. This carbon dioxide can also be used as a raw material for the production of renewable aviation fuel.…
The Danish company Maersk, the largest shipping container company in the world, was faced with a problem: after transport by sea – which can take up to three weeks – all too often, fruit was not fresh on arrival. Maersk…
With the “Zukunftslabor grünen Wasserstof” (Future Laboratory for Green Hydrogen), the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich) will have a leading role in German research into hydrogen technologies. The future laboratory is the fourth of its kind to be supported…
Chances are your last (online) brainstorm session was not a true one. As it happens, there is a complete lack of understanding about brainstorming. Put a few people together and say, “come up with ideas,” and we then call it…
Since the start of the year, visions of the metaverse have led experts and investors to debate how it will impact European and global markets. It looks like Europe isn’t ready for the Metaverse, which provides us with the opportunity…
“I’m about to start working on an innovation project, so what’s the best model for me to use?” I get this question from students every week. Purely that question, without any context. Whenever I then ask that particular student to first…
Vegan chocolate without cocoa but with a recognizable chocolaty taste. The German start-up QOA wants to become a sustainable alternative for chocolate lovers. Why is QOA needed? Founder Sara Marquart explains. How does it work? “QOA is developing the world’s…
In his latest book’The Elephant in the Universe,Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter‘, science journalist and publicist Govert Schilling tells us all about one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in modern astronomy. From the first indications of dark matter to…