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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.

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.

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.

A Holistic Approach to Parkinson’s Disease

MedEngine

MedEngine’s story begins in London where founders Christian Mellor and Philipp Brunnbauer were lab partners and biomedical engineers at Imperial College. After realizing the potential for a low-cost medical device that could continuously monitor Parkinson’s Disease, Mellor and Brunnbauer teamed up to found MedEngine GmbH in 2017 in Berlin.

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.