Paul Knöll as Speaker at Forum for Young Excelent Research

✨🧑‍🔬 💧 The Forum Junge Spitzenforschung recognized innovations on the topic of “Water & Water Management” and we were proud to support the event!

On November 17, 2025, the competition for application ideas from research took place. Six teams of early-career researchers competed with their ideas in front of a jury of high-profile industry experts and the audience for first place.

The competition was accompanied by an expert discussion, where our founder **Paul Knöll** was invited as a speaker. The panel focused on innovations in the water sector, sustainable urban water management, and the role of blue-green infrastructure. With our expertise in groundwater, we were able to add particular depth to some of the discussions 😉

The diversity and level of innovation of the presented ideas truly impressed us! Take a look yourself: [https://humboldt-innovation.de/de/forschungsservice/forum-junge-spitzenforschung/rueckblick-2025](https://humboldt-innovation.de/de/forschungsservice/forum-junge-spitzenforschung/rueckblick-2025)

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners on their awards:

1st place: Bio-adsorber beads for water purification, Freie Universität Berlin
2nd place: DeepANN-Hydro3D, Technical University of Berlin
3rd place: iOLE – intelligent online leak detection, Technical University of Berlin