We congratulate Dr. Younes Karfa Bekali for winning the “DAAD-Ideas Competition on Covid-19” for the start-up idea “Contactless disinfection dispenser During the covid-19 pandemic, UM5R founded the Opt-Project (The path towards OPTimal decisions, https://opt-covid19.org/). Opt is a voluntary initiative led by a multidisciplinary team of researchers, doctors, biologist, virologue, virologist, mathematician, computer scientists and