Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Technology · Agriculture

Lely Sphere: the Dutch barn system that turns cow-shed ammonia into fertiliser

In a dairy barn, ammonia starts forming within hours once urine meets dung. In the Netherlands, that gas settles on protected nature and has frozen farm permits since 2019. Lely, the family firm best known for milking robots, built a barn system that keeps urine and dung apart, pulls the gas out of the manure pit and binds it into a liquid fertiliser. In February 2026 a Dutch province granted the first final nature permit based on it.

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Technology · NuclearAbout Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology

BRIT COLTECH: India's home-grown technetium-99m generator for everyday nuclear medicine

Most nuclear medicine scans start with a small shielded box delivered to the hospital each week.

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Technology · Nuclear

ITM EndolucinBeta: Munich's purer lutetium-177 for targeted cancer therapy

Some of the most promising cancer drugs of the decade are radioactive.

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Technology · Nuclear

Mirion Instadose+: the wireless dosimeter that ended the monthly badge shuffle

Every radiographer, cardiologist and nuclear plant technician wears a small badge that records the radiation they receive.

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Technology · Space

Planet Tanager-1: the hyperspectral satellite that pins methane leaks to a single well pad or landfill

Methane is invisible, odourless in its raw form and, over 20 years, about 80 times more powerful than CO2 at warming the planet.

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Technology · Water

Boreal Light WaterKiosk: the Berlin-built solar desalination container that sells safe water for cents

Along Kenya's coast and in its dry north, the only groundwater is often salty, and bottled water is far beyond many family budgets.

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Technology · Water

LifeStraw Community: the power-free purifier giving whole classrooms safe water in Kenya

In many rural schools, children drink water from a rain tank, a river or a shared borehole, and diarrhoeal illness keeps them out of class.

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Energy · CleanTech

Greenway Smart Stove: the Indian cookstove that cuts smoke and firewood for more than three million rural kitchens

In much of rural India, dinner is still cooked on a mud chulha fed with wood, crop waste and dung cakes, filling the kitchen with smoke.

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Energy · CleanTech

Sistema.bio biodigester: the prefabricated biogas plant turning cow dung into cooking gas and fertiliser for small farms

Hundreds of millions of rural families cook on smoky wood or dung fires, while manure from their cattle releases methane into the air.

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Materials science · Circular materials

Carbon Craft Design: Indian wall tiles made from air pollution and construction waste

India's building boom produces mountains of construction debris and relies on kiln-fired bricks and tiles that add to the country's air pollution.

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Green architecture · Green buildings

Strawcture Eco AgriBioPanel: Indian crop stubble pressed into building boards, now sold in Europe

Every autumn, farmers in north India burn millions of tonnes of rice straw, and Delhi chokes. Strawcture Eco buys that straw and presses it into wall and ceiling boards.

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Green architecture · Micro climate systemsAbout Ant Studio

CoolAnt Beehive: a Delhi architect's terracotta wall that cools hot air without refrigerants

Indian households have cooled drinking water in clay pots for centuries. Ant Studio turned the idea inside out, cooling air by blowing it through wet terracotta cones.

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Green architecture · Micro climate systems

GAF StreetBond cool pavement: a reflective street coating that cooled a Los Angeles neighbourhood, with a catch

In 2022 roofing giant GAF painted more than 700,000 square feet of streets, schoolyards and car parks in Pacoima, Los Angeles, with a light-coloured reflective coating.

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Green architecture · Micro climate systems

Green City Solutions CityTree and EcoBreeze: Berlin's moss air filters get solar power, and a hard look at the evidence

Green City Solutions builds walls of living moss that pull in street air, filter it and blow it back out cooler, sold as a compact alternative to planting trees.

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Green architecture · Micro climate systemsAbout Sempergreen

SemperGreenwall Outdoor: Dutch pre-grown living walls tested for heat and aircraft noise near Schiphol

Sempergreen grows plants into modular panels at its nurseries, so a building can get a fully green facade on the day it is installed.

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Transportation and logistics · Clean mobility

Ather Rizta: the family e-scooter that took a Bengaluru start-up national

India runs on scooters. More than any car, the 110 cc petrol scooter is how families get to work, school and the market, and it is a large source of urban air pollution and oil imports.

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Transportation and logistics · Clean mobility

Solaris Urbino 12 electric: the Polish city bus that helped electrify Europe's routes

The city bus is the workhorse of urban transport and, with its diesel engine idling at every stop, one of the most visible sources of street-level pollution. It is also the vehicle that has electrified fastest in Europe.

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Transportation and logistics · Clean mobilityAbout myStromer

Stromer ST7: the Swiss 45 km/h e-bike that turns a car commute into a bike ride

An ordinary e-bike stops helping at 25 km/h, which is fine for a 5 km trip into town but slow for a 20 km commute. A speed pedelec keeps pushing up to 45 km/h, close to urban car speeds.

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Transportation and logistics · Clean mobility

Urban Arrow Family: the Dutch cargo e-bike built to replace the second car

The school run, the weekly shop and the trip to the swimming pool are short, regular and heavy: exactly the trips that keep a second family car on the drive. Urban Arrow designed a bike for them.

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Transportation and logistics · EVs

Tata Nexon EV: the made-in-India electric SUV that opened the mass market

When the Nexon EV arrived in January 2020, electric cars in India were rare, expensive or impractical for long trips.

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Transportation and logistics · Hydrogen aviation

Doosan Mobility Innovation DS30W: the mass-produced hydrogen drone that flies for two hours

Battery drones are useful for short jobs, but they rarely stay up for more than half an hour, which limits how far they can inspect a power line or carry medicine.

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Transportation and logistics · Supply chain

Controlant Saga: the Icelandic loggers that watched six billion vaccine doses in real time

Medicines that spoil in transit are usually thrown away, along with the energy, materials and money that went into making them. Often nobody knows a shipment went out of range until it arrives.

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Transportation and logistics · Supply chain

CSafe Silverpod MAX RE: the British-designed pharma pallet shipper that is rented, returned and reused

Most temperature-sensitive medicines still fly in single-use insulated boxes, which keep the cargo cool for a few days and are then thrown away, often in another country.

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Eco-restoration · CleanTechAbout ONGC TERI Biotech

Oilzapper: the Indian bacterial cocktail that eats oil spills and turns sludge pits back into land

Oil spills on land and the black sludge left at the bottom of refinery tanks are some of the most stubborn pollution in the energy industry, usually dumped in lined pits that fill up and leak.

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Eco-restoration · Sustainable forestry

Husqvarna 542i XP: a professional battery chainsaw with a clutch, built for forest work

A Swedish battery saw with the power of a 40cc petrol model and a clutch that protects the chain and motor, aimed at thinning crews and arborists who want less noise, less vibration and no exhaust.

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Planetary engineering · Atmospheric frontiers

Respirer Atmos: the Pune-made sensors mapping India's air, block by rural block

Small, low-power air quality monitors that now sit in every block of Bihar, on Mumbai construction sites and at mines in South Africa, turning the lowest layer of the atmosphere into live data.

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Planetary engineering · Solar radiation management

Make Sunsets: the US start-up selling sulphur dioxide balloon launches as cooling credits, and why regulators are alarmed

A two-person company fills weather balloons with sulphur dioxide, lets them burst in the stratosphere and sells the result as "Cooling Credits". It is the most controversial product in this series: tiny in physical scale, but a direct test of who gets to decide whether humans dim the sun.

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Planetary engineering · Solar radiation management

Thermacool: the IIT Bombay cool roof coating that India's heat policies are making mainstream

A roof coating developed at IIT Bombay and sold by a small New Delhi company, designed to bounce back the near-infrared part of sunlight that heats concrete and tin roofs. As Indian states start to require cool roofs, products like this are moving from pilot projects to building permits.

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Advanced technology · Extreme environment engineering

Createc N-Visage: the Cumbrian camera that sees radiation in 3D, from Sellafield to Fukushima

Cleaning up old nuclear sites means sending people into rooms where nobody knows how radioactive things are. A small company in Cockermouth, Cumbria, builds a gamma camera that maps radiation hot spots in three dimensions from a safe distance. Sellafield calls it the only instrument that meets its needs, and versions of it have looked inside Fukushima's damaged reactors.

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Advanced technology · NanoTech

Elmarco Nanospider: the Czech machine that spins nanofibres by the square kilometre for cleaner air and water

Nanofibres, hundreds of times thinner than a human hair, make excellent filters, battery separators and wound dressings. The problem has always been making enough of them. In Liberec, in the north of the Czech Republic, Elmarco turned a university invention into the first industrial machines that spin nanofibres without needles, in webs up to two metres wide. In 2026 its team was a finalist for the European Inventor Award.

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Advanced technology · NanoTech

NX Filtration: the Dutch nano-membranes that pull PFAS and parasites out of drinking water without chemicals

"Forever chemicals" are turning up in rivers and lakes across Europe, and old treatment plants struggle to remove them. A company in Hengelo makes hollow fibres with nanometre-scale pores that hold back PFAS, pesticides and pathogens while letting useful minerals through. In 2026 it won its biggest order yet: the membranes for what it says will be the world's largest plant of its kind, in Östersund, Sweden.

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Advanced technology · Neural interfaces

CEA Clinatec WIMAGINE: the French wireless brain implant behind the digital bridge, now tested for stroke recovery

In 2023 a Dutch man paralysed in a cycling accident said he had regained the pleasure of sharing a beer standing at a bar with friends, after learning to walk again by thought. The brain half of that "digital bridge" was WIMAGINE, a wireless implant built by France's public research body CEA at its Clinatec centre in Grenoble. In June 2026 the same implant went into its first stroke patient, in a trial to see whether brain-driven therapy can restore arm movement.

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Advanced technology · Neural interfaces

g.tec recoveriX: an Austrian brain-computer interface that helps stroke survivors relearn movement by imagining it

After a stroke, many people cannot move a hand or lift a foot, and conventional therapy often stalls. recoveriX, made by g.tec medical engineering in Austria, reads brain activity through an EEG cap. Only when the patient correctly imagines a movement does an avatar move on screen and an electrical stimulator move the real limb. It is one of the few brain-computer interfaces already used as therapy in ordinary clinics.

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Advanced technology · Neural interfaces

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics: a graphene brain interface from Barcelona, ten micrometres thin, tested in human brain surgery

Metal electrodes on the brain are stiff, bulky and blind to fine detail. INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, a spin-off from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and Spain's research council CSIC, replaces the metal with graphene, a sheet of carbon one atom thick. Its flexible implant is about 10 micrometres thick. In 2026 it completed the world's first clinical study of a graphene device in direct contact with the human nervous system.

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Advanced technology · Neural interfaces

ONWARD ARC-EX: non-invasive spinal cord stimulation that helps people with spinal cord injury regain hand strength

For people paralysed in the neck, getting back even a little hand strength can mean feeding themselves or holding a phone. ONWARD Medical, headquartered in Eindhoven with its engineering centre in Switzerland, makes ARC-EX, a stimulator that sends programmed pulses to the spinal cord through electrodes on the skin. It is the first such system cleared in the United States, and it now has a CE mark in Europe.

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Advanced technology · Neural interfaces

Synchron Stentrode: a brain-computer interface delivered through a vein, letting people with paralysis control phones and computers by thought

Most brain implants need a hole in the skull. Synchron's Stentrode does not. Mounted on a tiny stent, it is threaded up through the jugular vein into a blood vessel beside the brain's motor cortex, where it picks up the signals of intended movement. People with severe paralysis have used it to click, text and control an iPad, Amazon Alexa and Apple Vision Pro.

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