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Rheingans Digital Enabler

Tipping the Scales of the Work-Life Balance

In 2017 the Chief Officer of Bielefeld’s Rheingans Digital Enabler, a consulting agency focusing on digitalization, trimmed employees’ workdays from eight hours to five. How did that experiment go?

Moodpath

Tackling Depression with A.I.

Asana Rebel

Design Your Healthy Day

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.

Bringing Today’s Technology to Seniors

Nepos

The aging population is one global megatrend of our time. There are currently 0.7 billion people 65 or older in the world. By 2100 it is predicted that number will be 2.5 billion. Unfortunately, this aging population has been largely excluded from another megatrend: digitalization. Berlin-based startup Nepos aims to change that.