Wool #4 Panels of Faroese wool

Wool #4 Panels of Faroese wool

Innovations

Four young Faroese 10th graders, Dávur, Ólavur, Teitur and Trygvi, have made an exciting innovation that can help solve the problem of what to do with the coarse Faroese wool – acoustic panels with Faroese wool. NUKIGA had a talk with the four young guys to...
Taming the sea

Taming the sea

Innovations

Heini Winthereig-Rasmussen from RÁK Ocean Engineering on The Faroe Islands spends his time analysing hydrodynamics, and more specially how the currents affect fish farming sea cages. What is it you do? We study and quantify the hydrodynamic forces. In other words, the...
The future for fish food

The future for fish food

Innovations

Fish leave a much smaller carbon footprint than meat from cows, pigs or even chicken and should be regarded as a real alternative to traditional meat products.  If you want to limit your meat consumption, plant-based, vegan alternatives have long been the go-to...
Connecting without connection

Connecting without connection

Innovations

Attavik is an app that makes it possible for people to communicate even in very remote areas without telecommunications infrastructure. In this Q&A Jeanne Naja Holm from Attavik explains the thoughts behind the app. Why did you make this app, and who is it for?...