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

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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

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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

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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

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ReFunghi

ReFunghi wrote: Refunghi is a city lab and community project in the field of sustainable product design and urban food production. It wants to bring together people with different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. To fight the global climate crisis, we need to change urban life substantially. With refunghi we want to focus on mushrooms which can not only be used as a sustainable source of proteins but also for ecofriendly materials like alternatives for plastics or vegan leather. Mushrooms can be grown under urban conditions and on supposed waste like coffee grounds, which is another benefit for a more efficient use of our limited resources... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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BikeBuddy

Attractive Cyclists wrote: We gathered extensive geographical data from the openstreetmap, including the positions of street lights and tram tracks in the city of heidelberg. Using the openrouteservice, we generated various routes within heidelberg and analysed their properties with regard to these features. As a proof of concept, we implemented an application that can generate three routes between two points: the shortest one, the one with the highest proportion of illumination, and the one with the smallest intersection with the tram tracks. As a motivational gimmick, the amount of co2 saved by not using an (average) car for this distance is displayed... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Climactiv - be active.

Climactiv - be active. wrote: Let us imagine ashanti. She wants to engage in climate action but finds it difficult to find the right way to do this. But we have the solution, by offering our holistic sustainability approach “climactiv” to ashantis employer, in our example sap (this could also be a city, university or a country). The sample sap was chosen because of their high engagement on sustainable growth of the region. This allows ashanti to collect climate points throughout her day, which she does by coming to work by bike, having a vegetarian lunch and participating in the tree planting challenge in the evening. Additionally, she can enter new challenges for other employers, which can be rated by her colleagues... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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SpringUp

SpringUp wrote: What is the main idea?. We implemented a webapp, which allows a community-driven and internationally scalable method of collecting data for blooming trees. Our goal is to collect as many images of blooming trees as possible to provide a more detailed analysis of the effects of climate change on phenology. How does it work?. A user is challenged to take a picture of a blooming tree in their community. We predict blooming species of trees on a local level based on historical data. When the user uploads an image of a blooming tree, our machine learning model analyzes the picture to classify if the tree is the correct species and if it is in fact blooming. Once verified, the user is eligible for prizes (e. G... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Touch Climate

Touch Climate wrote: We chop down the huge bulk of information about climate change into small, digestible pieces in our interactive graphs. People can get a good picture of climate change facts on the go, as well as about how their local behavior can contribute to the big solution. With weekly changing graphs provided by touch climate, people can experience how rising global co2 levels have been connected to days of extreme heat per year in their hometown over the last 70 years, calculate the co2 emissions they produced on their way to the shopping center, or see what the different scenarios set out by the international panel of climate change (ipcc) actually implicate for global temperature, and more.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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tramn!

Team Awesome wrote: Two frontends - one for the customer to report issues and one for the maintanences workers to keep track of what is going on.  . Https://github. Com/criptic/climathon2019.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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