ScanWorld is going to do what it says on the tin: regularly observe the Earth, more specifically its natural resources. For the benefit of agriculture, forestry or projects to tackle pollution.
The technique of producing a tangible product layer by layer on the basis of a three-dimensional computer drawing, i.e. 3D printing, has been around for thirty years now.
Professor of Medicine Dirk Elewaut (UGent) was the first Belgian to receive the world's most famous prize for rheumatology research, the German Carol Nachman Prize.