Science Prize: Future Prize: Energy storage, chip and intensive care therapy
Three projects from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are in the running for the German Future Prize 2026. What their technologies can achieve for medicine, the energy transition and digitalization.
Three German projects have been nominated for the Deutsche Zukunftspreis, a prestigious science award. The projects include a reversible fuel cell power plant developed by the Technische Universität München, which can store energy long-term and generate electricity from biogas, natural gas, or hydrogen. A medical project by Advitos-Gesellschaft has developed a system to support multiple vital functions in intensive care patients, and has been used in over 11,500 treatments at more than 30 hospitals in Germany and Austria.
A team at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie has also developed an efficient manufacturing technology for photonic microchips, enabling the production of high-performance chips for data centers and artificial intelligence applications. The winner of the €250,000 award will be announced on November 18 by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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