Date: 2025-03-24
Get to know the 28 pre-finalists of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award (AmSIA), the Amsterdam-based competition celebrating innovative ideas that contribute to a better world. The selected ideas offer solutions to a wide range of contemporary challenges, including (mental) health, climate, energy, nutrition, education, sports, and more.
All 28 pre-finalists of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award will compete for a chance to pitch their idea in the final and win one of the three prizes of €10,000 each in the categories of Society, Health, and Environment & Climate.
At the beginning of May, it will be announced which 9 prefinalists will advance to the finals. The expert jury, chaired by İlknur Dönmez, Director of Economic Affairs and Culture of the Municipality of Amsterdam, will decide which finalists will get to pitch during the finals on June 17 at the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. Additionally, three finalists will be chosen by the public during the public voting campaign that starts at the end of April.
Below, you can find the innovative ideas of the pre-finalists per category.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tieme Janssen, Nienke van Atteveldt and Funda Jelsma: Explore your Brain
Quint Wiersma and Francisco Blasques: Readler
Reshmi Gopalakrishna Pillai, Constanza Gajardo Leon, Antske Fokkens: Global answers for local problems: Empowering communities with AI-supported solutions journalism
University of Amsterdam
Corentin Coulais, Wenfeng Liu, Bernard Ennis: Scaling up metamaterials for energy absorption applications
Eleni Georganta, Siddharth Mehrotra: AIdapt: Update to AI-Powered Teamwork
Rowan Arundel: The CCS Labour Observatory: an innovative AI-powered data source for multidimensional insights into labour dynamics in the Cultural and Creative Sector
Anestis Dalgkitsis, Alexandros Koufakis: Elevate: Revolutionizing the Aviation Industry with Collaborative Predictive Maintenance
Beyza Sumer: Handy library: Accessible Research for Deaf Signers
Hogeschool Inholland
Margo van Kemenade: ISHA; a care robot for rehabilitation at home of geriatric CVA-patients
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Anouk Post, Tyla Danskin, Johannes de Boer: LightUp: a pill-sized camera for the early detection of oesophageal cancer
Moira van Leeuwen, Mohammadreza Mahaki: LesSchuh: An innovative fall prevention training shoe for older adults
Martin Gevonden, Cor Stoof en Eco de Geus: Top quality digital biomarkers for indexing stress in daily life
Felix Paulussen, Ana Alcalde Ordóñez: Novel PIRCE molecules for the treatment of colorectal cancer
Marvin Albers and Tom Grossmann: grabRNA: Smart RNA delivery enables novel therapeutic strategies
Amsterdam UMC
Alon Hopman: (Loose) Hips Don’t Lie
Charissa Rahmee, Emanuel Nuwass, Matthijs Botman: The Train-the-Trainer Project: Local Leadership for Lasting Impact
Myrthe Simon: Burn Care Without Borders: An Evaluation of the Basics of Burn Care Website
University of Amsterdam
Liam Jones, Sahar El Aidy: The Gut Electromicrobiome: Investigating Microbial Extracellular Electron Transfer in Gastrointestinal Biofilms using the BIOGEL-MX platform
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Jolanda Tetteroo, Ed Melet: From Waste to Resource: Rethinking The Removal of Asbestos-Contaminated Windows
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David Poole, Twan Hopstaken: Enhancing Protein-Rich Food Production with Targeted Chemistry
Daniel Muth and Gergely Muth: Empowering renewable energy prosumers and traders to unlock the full potential of their energy and storage systems.
Maria Margalef, Marja Lamoree, Jeroen Kool and Julien Slagboom: FractioMate: Revolutionizing Water Research & Risk Assessment
Nicolas Paul Cullen: Bacteria-produced sports chalk using magnesium salts from industrial waste streams or salt mines
Maryam Alimardani: GreenPick: a serious VR game to promote pro-environmental consumption
University of Amsterdam
Nienke Leenders: Recycling of polycotton waste textile
Florenz Buß, Valentin Geiger, Bas de Jong, Chris Slootweg: BOR-LYTE: Sustainable Battery Electrolytes
Douwe Winsemius, Mick Kruft, Quintus Darley: ROND Amsterdam
The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award is organized for the 17th time by IXA, the joint knowledge transfer office of Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), University of Amsterdam (UvA), and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Would you like to stay informed about all developments around AmSIA? Sign up for our newsletter.
