Dr. Fabienne Schwab of the Adolphe Merkle Institute's BioNanomaterials group has won the "most exciting solution" award at the project pitching session of the 2018 SHIFT Zurich conference on “BioInspiration Innovation and Finance”. This award, for the most motivating solution encouraging actors to make sustainable, long-term, resilient business and investment decisions, was for her presentation on “Proof of Concept of a Bioinspired Nanofertilizer”.