The search for digital emotions continues: Helsinki Challenge 2015 winner NEMO
Winning solution of Helsinki Challenge 2015 led the team members Katri Saarikivi and Valtteri Wikström to an even bigger research project. Read more »
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Winning solution of Helsinki Challenge 2015 led the team members Katri Saarikivi and Valtteri Wikström to an even bigger research project. Read more »
Our planet is in distress. Unsustainable consumption and climate change bring along a myriad of universal problems from poverty to unemployment. Now at the latest these problems need solutions. The science based idea competition Helsinki Challenge is looking for solutions to grand challenges and future well-being related on three themes: sustainable planet, people in change and urban future. Read more »
Planeettamme kestokyky on koetuksella. Kestämätön kulutus ja ilmastonmuutos tuovat mukanaan liudan universaaleja ongelmia köyhyydestä työttömyyteen. Näihin ongelmiin tarvitaan viimeistään nyt ratkaisuja. Tiede voi olla yksi niistä. Read more »
Team Biodiversity Now, led by professor Markku Ollikainen, won second place in the Helsinki Challenge competition. Now they are working hard on their idea – a habitat bank that protects nature’s biodiversity – to be implemented at the start of next year. They are developing the world’s first operational offset market mechanism, in order to prevent the reduction of the global biodiversity of nature. “Our solution has great societal significance, at the core of which is creating a functional market for nature conservation.” Read more »
The €375,000 prize for the science-based idea competition Helsinki Challenge was divided between two teams. The winner was NEMO – Natural Emotionality in Digital Interaction, which received €250,000, while the runner-up, Biodiversity Now, received €125,000. The prize money is intended for realising the team’s idea. Read more »
Tiedepohjaisen ideakilpailun Helsinki Challengen voittosumma 375 00 euroa jaettiin kahden joukkueen kesken. Kilpailun voittaja NEMO – Natural Emotionality in Digital Interaction sai 250 000 euroa ja toiselle sijalle yltänyt Biodiversity Now 125 000 euroa. Voittosummat on tarkoitettu kilpailuidean toteuttamiseen. Read more »
The five finalists of Helsinki Challenge have been chosen! Meet Biodiversity Now, a team who is developing the world’s first offset market mechanism to prevent net loss of biodiversity. Saving the richness of nature! Read more »
Helsinki Challengen viisi finalistia on valittu! Yksi finalisteista on Biodiversity Now, joka pelastaa luonnon monimuotoisuuden. Sen he tekevät kehittämällä markkinamekanismin, jolla "pahantekijä" maksaa aiheuttamansa vahingot monimuotoisuudelle. Read more »