The Global Winners of the James Dyson Award 2025

Award's Core Mission

• 💡 The James Dyson Award was established to encourage university students to develop solutions for significant problems.
• 🎯 This year, the award recognizes two brilliant global winners who have tackled severe challenges with innovative designs.

WaterSense: Sustainability Innovation

• 💧 Filip is the inventor of WaterSense, the Global Sustainability Winner, an autonomous device for real-time water quality monitoring in inland waters.
• 🔬 This invention addresses the lack of existing solutions for continuous monitoring, utilizing 300 sensors to measure parameters with laboratory-grade precision.
• ✅ WaterSense provides AI-powered monitoring and early pollution alerts, replacing manual, occasional sampling.

OnCue: Medical Breakthrough

• 🧠 Alessandra is the inventor of OnCue, the Global Medical Winner, a smart keyboard designed for people with Parkinson's and cognitive problems.
• 🛠️ Unlike other assistive keyboards, OnCue uniquely integrates therapeutic cues to help manage common Parkinson's symptoms like tremors and freezing, reducing typing errors.
• 👏 The device features different functionalities to address the more than 40 symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease, benefiting a wide range of users.

Recognizing Student Solutions

• 🌟 James Dyson expressed his profound impressions of both inventions, highlighting their potential to benefit many people.
• 🌱 He emphasized the encouragement derived from seeing so many students develop effective solutions for severe problems, aligning with the award's core purpose.