The 1D touch project is a fair-trade streaming platform supporting independent creators and artists from around the world by offering an alternative for mainstream business models which mainly benefit the most renowned artists.

Climate for Culture has taken an innovative approach to assess the risks climate change poses to historical artefacts through the combination of high-resolution regional climate modelling together with building simulation tools.

Creative Technologies in the Classroom (CTC) is a collaborative learning curriculum designed for schools wishing to incorporate emerging technologies into their existing classes by introducing basic concepts in programming, electronics and mechanics.

Understanding itself as an international monitoring centre, the Data Ethical Culture Observatory evaluates and shares best practice models on data valorisation, aiming for a cultural stronghold in the digital revolution by encouraging an international convention on data ethics.

The project Deaf Magazine was nominated as a special guest because of its great contribution to the shaping of an inclusive society. The lifestyle and society magazine deals with the culture of German sign language and communicates to both hearing-impaired and non-hearing impaired people.

The ground-breaking creative entrepreneurial programme Education In Place of War (IPOW) empowers the world's most marginalised communities to create sustainable income and social change through their creativity.

Fontus and Airo are water bottles capable of harvesting water from the air. The system introduces a solution for the severe issue of drought and water unsafe which many parts of the world suffer from.

The Healthcare Innovation Exchange (HELIX) Centre faces the most pressing healthcare challenges through combining user-centred design expertise and scientific know-how to identify patient-centred solutions.

Facing the ongoing crisis in Spain HOME BACK HOME proposes a platform for analysis, monitoring and treatment of new models of domestic living.

PlanEt constitutes an open-source device for collecting and visualising biological data from plants in order to increase the citizen's consciousness about the role of plants in citites. The data can be used for monitoring and moderating urban and spatial conditions.

ROOM IN A BOX addresses the mobility which the Generation Y, living and working in global markets, is confronted with by focusing on furniture and interior design made of paper-based materials like corrugated cardboard.

Smart Citizen's aim is the empowerment of citizens through the development of bottom-up digital tools under an open-source philosophy.

Smarter Than You Think is a campaign aiming to raise awareness about dyslexia and promoting understanding and empathy towards this condition through the concept of design.

Designed as an interactive performance installation, THE MACHINE TO BE ANOTHER is an art investigation on the relation of identity and empathy, taking the open-source form of a creative commons tool to promote tolerance.

The project Waves of Energy is an innovative approach to citizen participation in public cultural policies which aims at increasing the acceptance of culture in society.

Wikihouse is an open source building system making it possible for everyone to design, print and assemble beautiful, low-cost, low-energy and high-performance houses according to their individual needs.