Vote for your favourite innovative idea now!

Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award (AmSIA) is the Amsterdam competition for the most innovative ideas that contribute to a better world.
In the past several months, 27 pre-finalists have been selected in the categories of Health, Society and Environment & Climate.
Only 9 finalists (3 per category) can pitch their innovative idea live on stage and have a chance to win €10,000!

How does public voting work?
You can vote for your favorite idea by selecting the name of the pre-finalist of your choice from the list below.

It is possible to vote for one idea within each of the three categories: Health, Society, and Environment & Climate.
If you wish to vote exclusively for one pre-finalist, you may leave the other two categories blank.

The voting portal will close on Sunday, May 11 at 23:59.

Category Health:

Category Society:

Corentin Coulais, Wenfeng Liu, Bernard Ennis (UvA): Scaling up metamaterials for energy absorption applications

Eleni Georganta, Siddharth Mehrotra (UvA): AIdapt: Update to AI-Powered Teamwork

Anestis Dalgkitsis, Alexandros Koufakis (UvA): Elevate: Revolutionizing the Aviation Industry with Collaborative Predictive Maintenance

Beyza Sumer (UvA): Handy library: Accessible Research for Deaf Signers

Tieme Janssen, Nienke van Atteveldt and Funda Jelsma (VU): Explore your Brain

Quint Wiersma and Francisco Blasques (VU): Readler

Reshmi Gopalakrishna Pillai, Constanza Gajardo Leon, Antske Fokkens (VU): Global answers for local problems: Empowering communities with AI-supported solutions journalism

Rowan Arundel (UvA): The CCS Labour Observatory: an innovative AI-powered data source for multidimensional insights into labour dynamics in the Cultural and Creative Sector

Category Environment & Climate:

Jolanda Tetteroo, Ed Melet (HvA): Van afval tot grondstof / From Waste to Resource: Rethinking The Removal of Asbestos-Contaminated Windows

Nienke Leenders (UvA): Recycling of polycotton waste textile

Florenz Buß, Valentin Geiger, Bas de Jong, Chris Slootweg (UvA): BOR-LYTE: Sustainable Battery Electrolytes

Douwe Winsemius, Mick Kruft, Quintus Darley (UvA): ROND Amsterdam

David Poole, Twan Hopstaken (VU): Enhancing Protein-Rich Food Production with Targeted Chemistry

Daniel Muth, Gergely Muth (VU): 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 (VU): FractioMate: Revolutionizing Water Research & Risk Assessment

Nicolas Paul Cullen (VU): Bacteria-produced sports chalk using magnesium salts from industrial waste streams or salt mines

Maryam Alimardani (VU): GreenPick: a serious VR game to promote pro-environmental consumption

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