Pre-finalists of the Innovation Award announced!

The pre-finalists have a chance to win one of the three Innovation Awards and €10,000. The Innovation Award has three categories: Society, Health and Environment & Climate. In the coming months, all pre-finalists will showcase their idea through a personal video. Amongst them, several participants from our park. The following ideas are selected for the semi-finals:

Society:

Astrid Bijl (Amsterdam UMC): Efficiency and efficacy of the nursing process
Imran Avci (VU): RAPID PHOTONICS: Low-cost and fast prototyping of photonic integrated circuits
Desi Bootsman (HvA): Mazehunter
Floris Roelofsen (UvA): Automatic text-to-sign translation
Joop Akerboom (HvA): Scrollbook
Yuri Westplat (HvA): Prapla
Sanneke Stigter (UvA): DIAL Digital Index of an Artwork’s Life
Przemek Krawczyk (Amsterdam UMC): GraphlinQ – a collaborative platform for data analysis, plotting and publishing in data-connected smart manuscripts
Jan Willem Plaisier (Amsterdam UMC): Daily Dose, your scientific Tinder application
Tom Broens: act-E (Amsterdam UMC): Unravel your curriculum
Felienne Hermans (VU): Hedy: A Gradual Programming Language for Children

Health:

Guido Weide (VU): SoundTomics
Liz van de Riet (Amsterdam UMC): The Jeroen Pit Huis: innovation of hospital2home transition for children and families with medical complexities
Tobias Stornebrink (Amsterdam UMC): An injectable cushion for the painful joint
Jan Willem Duitman (Amsterdam UMC): Screening assay for early detection and treatment of progressive pulmonary fibrosis.
Tara Donker (VU): Getting rid of your fear without getting up from your couch: An evidence-based AR app for phobia Treatment
Lucia Talamini (UvA): A non-invasive neurotech solution for sleep and memory improvement
Tom Brouwer (Amsterdam UMC): Flowsure: A digital hanging scale to continuously measure, store and present urine production
Steven Chamuleau (Amsterdam UMC): CardioHOLOgy –Walk this Way
Ramla Jamac (VU): Mobile Uurka
Alice Grasveld (ACTA): The Healthy Teeth Foundation (THTF): A participatory action research into oral health amongst disadvantaged children aged 4-12 in the Schilderswijk, The Hague, The Netherlands
Isan Firdaus (VU): Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Biofeedback (VRET-BF)  for Substance Use Disorder (SUD)

Category Environment & Climate:

Edcel Salumbides (VU): Non-invasive pre-symptomatic illness detection in farm animals
Tiago R. Matos (Amsterdam UMC): Dermoscope
Marta Malé-Alemany (HvA): The Upcycle Wood Platform
Jawad Essalami (HvA): Eddy Lite
Lukas Helmbrecht (AMOLF/ UvA): Lumetallix: a bright method to detect toxic lead
Jardo Stammeshaus (VU): The Liion Power Battery Life Extender
Sem Vijverberg (VU): Long-lead time predictions of weather and its impact using AI
Corentin Coulais (UvA): Edible Metamaterials
Arnon Lesage (UvA): SolarFoil
Syranos Tjee (HvA): Recipe Creation