Linea Continua

Linea Continua wrote: Our solution aims to provide a simplified approach to public transport for the city of carpi, also by providing an incentive based on electronic coupons. Each citizen is pushed to avoid the use of cars, utilizing a positive approach. A personal electronic card can receive points when used in affiliate shops or activities, when collecting urban waste as cans or pet bottles, or when use private and public bikes. The card is directly usable as a public transport ticket. We also intend to develop a mobile app to avoid the physical card and to reduce the use of plastic... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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coltivare l'incoltivabile

Dream Team wrote: Coltivare l'incoltivabile. The solution aims to repurpose disused urban areas for agricultural production. The consumption of soil due to excessive cementation keeps the arable and usable areas away from the citizen, leaving instead places of degradation and vacant structures. Our cooperative aims to reconvert spaces urban decommissioned spaces through aquaponic agriculture and the community supported agricolture model . Reconvert abandoned urban spaces through the use of modules for aquaponic agriculture and develop a model of cooperative cooperation with the community supported agricolture (csa) method, i. E. A community of citizens born to grow their food directly in a sustainable and supportive way... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Consolidating a community's resilience

SecchiaTeam wrote: The more cohesive and informed a community is, the more it is able to give a response to critical moments. Our idea develops in three steps: organizing informational meetings about the local morphology and climate, giving information on how to take care of the planet and some tips for a quick and effective response to an emergency situation. In these occasions local people will meet and start to get involved in this topic. Promoting arginami, an android and ios app very lightweight and user friendly. By signing in people agree to be put into contact with other users living nearby in case of necessity. The home screen shows comprehensible data such as temperature, rivers' level compared to the average one, the air's quality, etc... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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SafePeaks: a mobile app for mountain safety

SafePeaks wrote: Safepeaks mobile application will solve three of the crucial problems that today the tourism in general, but the mountains one in particular, has to face : the lack of people’s consciousness about new emerging dangers, their inability to report emergency situations and safety issues caused by the difficult coordination among different civil protection bodies. To solve the first problem, safepeaks will give the users the possibility to get a quick overview of the climatic conditions, including the information about the different routes available in a selected area... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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WEeeCHANGE

4plus1 wrote: For our solution we decided to use a physical structure where consumers can buy or let usdispose their raee, they will receive back a 10% of their selling price. The company earns money with cultural and educational events too using sponsors for this curses. A small part of the profit comes fromdisposing raee too. To increase the ecologicalawareness of people, the companyoffers free courses in schools with the aim to shape young generations thoughts about climate changes... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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ELECO (Electronic Ecosystem)

RaeEUSE wrote: Eleco is a web platform. The sustainability of eleco is guaranteed by a win-win solution: the repairers are part of an ever growing, self sustained and thriving community. Citizens are incentivized to repair because they can have easy access to repair service at convenient prizes or even collaborate with experts in order to become themselves repairers. There will be 3 main sections and functionalities in the site: 1、online e-flea market. People can sell second hand devices/ broken devices/ components of the devices. The repairers can buy what they need to fix other devices. 2、repair... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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ReNew Cafe

J.F.T. - JellyFish Team wrote: Starting from the economical part, our idea concerns to consider private funders who might be interested in being associated with the idea of the repair cafè or might gain some other benefits by funding it. Private funders may be: companies selling tools for repairers: a growth of the repair community means more people interested in tools. Social cooperative working for the re-integration of jailed/disable/socially disadvantaged people might be interested in having repairers who can teach them a new skill they can spend on the market. Green tech companies who want to find a new way to promote themselves (e. G. Companies working with renewables)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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WE3 Connect

WEEEWO wrote: We3 connect is a unique digital platform that incentivizes users to dispose of their small electronic devices in an innovative way: while disposing of broken devices to electronic retailers, they earn points that allow them to access targeted offers and discounts. In this way, not only they save money but also they can actively contribute to climate change mitigation through provision of secondary raw materials. Furthermore, thanks to the footprint calculator, we3 connect will help to increase users awareness about the impact they make while recycling e-waste. At the same time, we identify the main electronic retailer chains as the key partners of we3 connect as they provide us with the infrastructures to collect small-sized e-waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Culture in motion

Culture in motion wrote: The vaporetto provides a solution to reduce and diversify the visitors flow. The vaporettoproposes a cultural visit where the visitor educates himself through different activities (in our case in venice). Several immersive rooms inside the boat offers to the visitor interactive games. The vaporetto is self-powered by solar and kinetic energy. This energy can be used by other boats working in the venetian territory. Our overall goal is offering to visitors the opportunity to discover new places around venice, minimizing the visitors flow and allowing other boats to use our energy to charge themselves... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Young & Green

Young & Green wrote: The idea is to connect transport companies and private citizens to each other so that they can offer free space to transport goods. The boat that has free space for transport will offer this space thus avoiding it moving at half load. By doing so, more transport can be performed in a single trip. This results in fewer boats and less pollution... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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