Soil: the living, breathing, bio-diverse skin of the Earth, is a living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals and humans. The loss of fertility of our soil is one of the most critical issues facing our food system. Patches of land as big as entire nations are lost every year to soil erosion. The aim of the Resuscitation project is to study and promote a global approach of agriculture as a healthy, dynamic yet stable ecosystem. The goal is the revitalisation of soils and increase the fertility index of the soil itself. The methods repopulate the soil’s natural live inhabitants to self-sustainable diversity levels, and apply rotation of species to further increase the carbon content -a key player in the soil’s health system- naturally. “We need to ensure farmers have the right understanding and guidance to improve the health of our soils.”   Soil is an extravagant ecosystem: plants and other life species interact in synergy, that is often neglected and over...

Have you imagined alternatives for better medical and social care? Are you involved with care related initiatives in your community? Or, maybe you have open source or DIY solutions for patients or caregivers? We want to hear from you. Join the process of building the OpenVillage! The OpenVillage Festival is a highly participatory festival showcasing working solutions and demos produced by community members, as well as pathways for working together towards their sustainability. It will take place in October 2017 (exact dates and location TBD) and represents the culmination of the OpenCare 18 month research that involves hundreds of original initiatives. Who can participate? Anyone with a story of an open and participatory project of health/social care, who is interested in online and offline collaboration for social good. What you will get if selected: You will be working with the Edgeryders team towards the OpenVillage event happening in October 2017. A bursary app...

Our New Fellow, Marek Oropallo We are delighted to announce an addition to our Fellow Program, Marek Oropallo . Marek will join the BioDynaMo Modeller team. The BioDynaMo is a collaboration between CERN, Newcastle University, Innopolis University, Kazan Federal University, and Intel to design and build a scalable computing platform for  advancement in neuroscience. Marek Oropallo is a graduating student in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bologna.  His studies include Applied Mathematics and Cognitive Sciences with an interest primarily in Neuroaesthetics and Biosemiotics - and, of course, brain simulations . He had worked in collaboration with the Neurology unit of the Hospital of Modena, on the Parkinson’s project where he focused on visual/motor coordination and the cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease. Though this project didn’t go further past the initial stage it did give birth to early cognitive testing procedures in Parkinson’s diseas...