Which innovative idea do you want to see on stage at the finals of Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award on June 17? Vote for your favorite idea and participate in the decision.
Public voting is now open for the pre-finalists to pitch their ideas in the finale of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award, the competition for innovative ideas from all research disciplines. Which innovative ideas will make it to the stage during the AmSIA '25 finale? Watch the one-minute videos about the innovative ideas and cast your vote before 12 May.
At the finale on June 17, the AmSIA expert jury will award €10,000 to the three best ideas in the categories of Society, Health, and Environment & Climate. You can register for the finale here.
Your vote decides! The competing VU researchers and students are:
Category of Society:
- Tieme Janssen, Nienke van Atteveldt, Funda Jelsma (Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences): Explore your Brain
- Quint Wiersma and Francisco Blasques (School of Business and Economics): Readler: Revolutionizing speech therapy for children: an innovative AI-powered digital assistant
- Reshmi Gopalakrishna Pillai, Constanza Gajardo Leon, Antske Fokkens (Faculty of Social Sciences): Global answers for local problems: Empowering communities with AI-supported solutions journalism
Category of Health:
- Anouk Post, Tyla Danskin, Johannes de Boer (Faculty of Science): LightUp: a pill-sized camera for the early detection of oesophageal cancer
- Moira van Leeuwen, Mohammadreza Mahaki (Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences): LesSchuh: An innovative fall prevention training shoe for older adults
- Martin Gevonden, Cor Stoof, Eco de Geus (Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences): Top quality digital biomarkers for indexing stress in daily life
- Felix Paulussen, Ana Alcalde Ordóñez (Faculty of Science): Novel PIRCE molecules for the treatment of colorectal cancer
- Marvin Albers, Tom Grossmann (Faculty of Science): grabRNA: Smart RNA delivery enables novel therapeutic strategies
Category of Environment & Climate:
- David Poole, Twan Hopstaken (Faculty of Science): Enhancing Protein-Rich Food Production with Targeted Chemistry
- Daniel Muth, Gergely Muth (Faculty of Science): Empowering renewable energy prosumers and traders to unlock the full potential of their energy and storage systems.
- Maria Margalef, Marja Lamoree, Jeroen Kool, Julien Slagboom (Faculty of Science): FractioMate: Revolutionizing Water Research & Risk Assessment
- Nicolas Paul Cullen (Faculty of Science): Bacteria-produced sports chalk using magnesium salts from industrial waste streams or salt mines
- Maryam Alimardani (Faculty of Science): GreenPick: a serious VR game to promote pro-environmental consumption
Visit the showcase pages of each pre-finalist to learn more about their idea through a personal video.
The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award is organised by IXA, the joint knowledge transfer office of Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).