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Finalists Innovation Award 2021

The 2021 jury, led by Gigi Wang, and the public selected nine finalists from the submissions from the Amsterdam knowledge and research institutes. These selected finalists offer innovative solutions for a wide range of societal issues.

The 2021 finalists were:

Category Health:

  • Insan Firdaus | VU | Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Biofeedback (VRET-BF) for Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
  • Liz van de Riet| Amsterdam UMC| The Jeroen Pit Huis: innovation of hospital2home transition for children and families with medical complexities
  • Tom Brouwer | Amsterdam UMC| Flowsure: A digital hanging scale to continuously measure, store and present urine production

Category Society

  • Imran Avci | VU| RAPID PHOTONICS: Low-cost and fast prototyping of photonic integrated circuits
  • Floris Roelofsen| UvA | Automatic text-to-sign translation
  • Desi Bootsman| HvA | Mazehunter: playful learning for children with dyslexia

Category Environment & Climate:

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