Jean El Achkar has become an Ambassador for the AUDI Environmental Foundation and the One Young World community, becoming the first person from the Arab world and Middle East region to receive the AUDI award and title.

Sandra Zapata was mentioned in Forbes as one of 50 Latinas Who Are Innovating To Sustainably, And Deliciously, Feed The World.

Karima El Azhary was selected as research fellow by the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald Lv. Hamburg e.V. (SDW) to be part of the International Sustainability Fellowship with the goal of supporting and strengthening international cooperation in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals.

Tonni Kurniawan was listed by Stanford University and Elsevier among the Top 2% scientists of the world (2020) in the field of Environment.

Stefano Cestellos-Blanco and his team SSwEET was one of three finalists in NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge. The UC Berkeley team demonstrated abiotic CO2 to sugar conversion and were the only academic lab among industrial scale companies to be named a co-winner of this prize!

The fruitful collaboration started from a talk at the GT Networking Conference 2019. Alumni Marcelo M. Morato and Joey D. Ocon published a paper on Renewable Energy regarding demand compliance on the Philippine islands using renewable energy grids.

Digitalization & Smart Technologies can build a sustainable society of the future & strategically address challenges related to the SDGs. Eleven Green Talents have joined forces & published their view on a Smart Green Planet. A wonderful outcome of alumni cooperation on the Networking Conference 2019.

Mario Heredia has published Potential for Farmers’ Cooperatives to Convert Coffee Husks into Biochar and Promote the Bioeconomy in the North Ecuadorian Amazon as a result of his research stay at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2020.