AI solutions for plant breeding

AgriML wrote: We want to democratise plant breeding ai capabilities with our solutions and make sustainable impact on global food system by improving plant resilience and and crop yields. As a first step we created plant variety recommendation engine, think of netflix recommended movies, that enables more precise plant variety selection in changing environmental conditions. As erosion, drought, heavy rains and other extreme weather conditions increase, it is more and more important to be able to select right seed to right place, to maximise resilience and yield of the plants... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

Spark Sustainability

Spark Sustainability wrote: 70 % of global greenhouse gas emissions stem from consumer choices, yet none of us know how to act to mitigate our own climate impact. Spark sustainability will change that by rebranding climate awareness and climate impact; by putting the climate impact of different everyday choices into perspective and by offering simple steps for individuals to become part of stopping climate change. We provide a platform for companies with low-carbon offerings and produce data on which personal climate actions are chosen first and why... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

Electric folding bikes as a service

Bikefy wrote: Bikefy offers electric folding bikes as monthly subscription. This allows companies to easily rent as many bikes as needed when they need it. The basic subscription includes the bike, a lock as well as maintenance and service. Helmets and bags can be added on top on demand. This electric folding bike subscription is the ideal companion for monthly public transport tickets, eliminating the last mile issue in commuting. By offering an easy to use solution to commuters' last mile problem with public transport we aim at eliminating the need for commuting by car. This will safe huge amounts of ghg emissions and free up parking space for more useful uses... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

RENS Sneaker

RENS Sneaker wrote: The world creates over 2. 5 million tons of coffee waste per year and only 5% of those are recycled while the rest is dumped into landfills. At the same time, by the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than there will be fish. Rens is the world’s first sneaker made from both coffee and plastic waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

Tree Mattress

Tree Mattress wrote: We are ‘tree mattress’ company, producing world’s first cellulose foam mattress. We have the technology to produce the mattress from cellulose which is totally recyclable as paper and totally free from toxic chemicals. Billions of mattress are produced every year and millions of them are dumped as waste every year. Most of the mattresses available in the market nowadays also have health issues due to the presence of harmful chemicals. Our mission is to bring the solution to this very problems without compromising the sound sleep... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

Hydrogen based battery

Aude Opus wrote: Aude opus provides hydrogen based batteries for long term electricity storing. To make renewable energy consistent and trustworthy we need to have an electricity storing solution, which can provide electricity for a long periods time. In order to go full on renewable energy we need to electricity storage solution. To create that, aude opus combines already existing new technologies in a single product... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Treat hazardous waste

Treat it wrote: Some industrial wastes contain high organic content and are disposed, because it is not possible to find reuse alternatives for them. Mln of tons of hazardous industrial waste is disposed in estonia by oil shale processing plants. Disposal of waste cause environmental pollution, mainly by leaching of contaminants from the disposal sites. We enable companies, producing hazardous waste to change hazardous waste into non-hazardous by reaching the goal set by the law for non-hazardous wastes. Cleaner environment is reached by reducing organic content both in solid waste and leachate water, coming from disposal sites... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Poko

Poko wrote: Every second roughly 160,000 plastic bags are being consumed around the globe. The primary energy required to produce these bags could be used to circle the earth with a car. Not a single plastic bag ever produced has completely degraded thus far. The plastic continues to pollute the environment for hundreds of years with over a million marine and land animals dying every year as a consequence. Poko aims to destroy this plastic addiction by offering a convenient and eco-friendly shopping bag with similar properties to that of a plastic bag. A poko bag is made from polyester that is reusable for hundreds of times and can be recycled. It is light, durable and also fits into a stylish key-holder that can be made out of various materials... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Making valuable product from waste

BrighterAlgae wrote: Our idea is to grow microalgae near powerplants and use their co2 and warm water to produce biodiesel. And since algae has lot to offer, we make use of everything that helps us to keep the biodiesel price low and profits high... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

BOXIT is a compostable takeaway foodbox

BOXIT wrote: We provide our biodegradable foodboxes to restaurants and fast food chains as an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic packages. Boxit foodbox is a thermo package made out of recycled paper and natural adhesive, which makes it waterproof for 24 hours. Producing and using boxit doesn’t leave any waste to the environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia