Flowmetrics

Flowmetrics wrote: Flowmetrics’ dynamic flood flow management helps cities to tackle urban flooding in a way that is intelligent, cost-effective and citizen-inclusive. The tool identifies urban flood risk hotspots and nearby areas that can withstand a lot of water, and quantifies their absorption capacity by using a distributed network of sensors as well as satellite imagery wherever possible. During a flood, highly impacted areas are connected with the identified absorbing areas by using mobile infrastructure that can easily be put in place by citizens and professionals... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Close The Gap

Close The Gap wrote: Merging a great amount of data sets from several sources (such as uber, destatis, fixmyberlin, citylab berlin and many more) we created the berlin gap-closer, which deals with the missing information transparency on berlin's biking infrastructure. This allows policy and decision makers to foresee the effects of their decisions: reduction of co2 emissions, changes in traffic and congestion as well as impacts on cyclist safety to create a more sustainable and safe mobility environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Report & Ride App for bicyclists

Report and Ride wrote: Report and ride solution consists of two parts. The app for bicyclists allows to make a photo of an infrastructure problem, add the description and upload the information to the cloud. All the reported problems are shown on the map for other bicyclists, who can add more photos or comments to the description of the problem. To motivate bicyclists to use the app and report issues, the app has functionality of an activity tracker, providing various statistics data for the rides and has ranking board for the most active reporters. After the infromation from riders is collected, it is combined with other open source data, like statstics of road accidents with bicycles allowing to rank the bicycle infrastructure problems by importance... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Zero Hero

Zero Hero wrote: Bin. The smart bin by zero hero has a transparent front which allows the user to see the trash as it collects. Having the trash visible at all times will help people develop a better connection to the waste they produce, and increase accountability. A scale is printed on the front window, indicating a score to be used in the gamification process. The scale is different for each material type, and makes it clear that landfill is the worst type of trash and should be avoided. Finally, the bins are fully colour coded, and have a graphic on the lid illustrating which items are accepted in each bin to comply with the german public waste management rules, educating users while removing as much margin of error as possible... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Dispo

Dispo wrote: Coming from the above mentioned situation, dispo is the idea of a technology that could reduce the volume of the already generated waste down to only 10% of the original volume. As result, it will reduce the number of visits of the waste transport vehicles and aconsequently reduce the service fees and the co2emissions associated with the process. Such technology already exist in the markets at bigger sizes for the waste to energy power plants, as it improves the calorific properties of waste based fuels. But till now does not exist for kitchen or building sizes . Dispo will be designed in different sizes 1- kitchen size that could treat 5 kg/day of house/office use... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Climate Friendly Food App

The Wasted wrote: Our app offers every employee the abilityto order theirlunch meal one day in advance at the office canteen/restaurant and decide to eat it either in the cantine, in the office kitchen or at theirown desk. In so doing, it is possible to avoid the introduction of any disposable products (i. E. Plastic wraps/boxes) into the office buildingsby using reusable/rewashable cutlery and plates (or lunch boxes) and to avoid food waste in the canteen/office restaurant. In order to motivate the employees to use theapp,after every order they receivealoyalty point (with veggie and vegan meals more points can be earned) and after a certain amount ofpoints (this has to be agreed upon by the app manager or.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Das gute Ding

Das gute Ding wrote: "das gute ding" is designed as a network of universities, companies, creatives and public institutions in which companies who might already know about the benefits of a ce reap other short term benefits such as empolyee attractivity and branding. Within the city of bottrop, there a companies as well as universities and other stakeholders such as public economic promotion agencies or creative people. Furthermore, some companies might already know about the benefits of a circular economy. Some examples are: longevity of products. More steady influx of capital because of a monthly pay system etc. Increased customer loyalty. However, some things are hindering there switch towards this economic model... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

unintentionally circular

unintentionally circular wrote: To find a solution for our initial challenge "how can the cities and/or the citizens of the ruhr area support a more circular lifestyle", we as a team first though ourselves about barriers and also catalyzers to act in a circular way as ordinary citizens. To understand better, how the actual citizens in ruhr area feel about circular economy and the related consumption and daily behaviour, we went outside on the streets to ask for their pains and gains concerning to the circular consumption. The main output of this survey was actually the fact, that a lot of people are already show circular behaviour and ways of consuming, but they actually don't know about it or don't want to show it... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Educational program for a circular economy

Team Dieter wrote: Our solution to the problem of not getting smes involved with circular economy is an educational program which will be additional to the already established apprenticeships that are offered in smes. The program is an on top, mandatory module. The apprentencies will have to pick up a challenge/ a project within the company after have been working there for 6 months. They will get a professional training and necessary inormation about ce in order to be able to implement ideas within the company they are working for. Moreover, there will be certifiates handed out after the 3 year apprenticeship to both, the apprentencies and the companies... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Smart Bin

Oskar wrote: Our smart bin "oskar" can sort waste automatically. Oskar has got different additionally features like wifi and a mortgage system for coffee cups. We will place oskar at public spaces where a lot of garbage is accumulating. But the idea is not just about the functionallity of the bin, it is also about providing information and help people be live a more circualr livestyle with the communication plattform "ask oscar". And oscar will be the super star of the communication campaign... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany