Forum am See

Access for Nobel Laureates and pre-registered Young Scientists only

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Ben L. Feringa
University of Groningen, Netherlands

Pia Sandvik
Affiliation tba.

Moderator: Anders Breitholz
Affiliation tba.

Nature has conducted 3.8 billion years of research and development. This session explores how directed innovation, layered onto nature's accumulated intelligence, can form a new industrial system logic.

PaperShell – recognized by the EU Innovation Fund as one of Europe's most cost-efficient decarbonization material systems – serves as a practical case. The discussion examines how scientific exploration, from particle accelerators to engineered mycelium, has opened discoveries beyond imagination.

PaperShell invites curious minds to a Partner Breakfast session to explore how this system logic can extend across the wider industrial landscape – and how molecular knowledge can translate into measurable global consequence.

The session brings together scientists and industry, with ample opportunity for audience participation.