Team Wu – CORTEX (Decentralised and distributed network for academic records)

CORTEX is a decentralized and distributed network that keeps safe and verifies individual academic records. CORTEX is a private blockchain with only an academic purpose, in which the courses approved and degrees obtained by a student are recorded as transactions in the student personal profile. Using blockchain we can create a decentralized and reliable system, […]

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Team Sutherland – Sentra (The Sensory Training System of the Future)

SENTRA is the suit of the future. It looks like a regular combi suit, but actually, it consists of a lot more. This haptic suit will make your own virtual experience a lot more realistic than other methods, such as Virtual Reality glasses, Augmented Reality glasses, etc. Our product is designed to psychologically train the […]

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Team Margulis – Power Index (Knowledge Sharing in Academic Research)

We believe the key to enabling future innovation is to create more credible signals of a researcher’s performance. A researcher impacts science in many dimensions. It could be the knowledge they create in the form of journal articles, raw data, code, and software. It could be a discussion they create in conferences or national policy. […]

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Team Geiger – Säker (Radon awareness)

How might we reduce the number of lives lost to the “silent killer” Radon? Our proposal is a platform that combines information from a network of radon detectors and personal risk assessment to offer a personalized care and mitigation services. There are 3 components to the säker solution, each offering their own benefits to the […]

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Team Carson – Air & Windo (Public health and environment)

Team Carson’s challenge was to think about how can we contribute to the reduction of environmental exposures that affect people’s health? Using this launching pad, Team Carson investigated the main causes of death and disease-affected-life-years (DALYs) according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and concentrated the initial research on water safety, neo-natal care, outdoor air […]

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CBI @ Mediterranean 2017

Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) is a project course, where multidisciplinary student teams and their instructors collaborate with researchers at CERN to discover novel solutions for the future of humankind. The projects are an elaborate mixture, where the technologies derived from research at CERN meet societal, human-driven needs. CBI @ mediterranean was running from 1.9.2017 to […]

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