Cost-competitive solar heat though optimised lenses

Heliac’s solar collectors produce utility-scale heat at unsubsidized costs they claim is below that of fossil fuels anywhere in the world. By using inexpensive lenses that work like magnifying glasses, it can generate temperatures up to 400 °C. Heliac targets process heat markets responsible for 15% of the global demand. These markets include desalination, district heating and cooling, and heat for numerous other standard industrial processes. Heliac believes their solution is scalable enough to meet any potential demand today.

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Sustainable loans and pensions

Matter is a sustainable alternative to a normal pension plan that avoids investments in fossil fuels, weapons and tobacco, while more money is invested in companies working towards a sustainable future. A Matter customer can track their savings through a digital platform and see the impact of those savings using a calculator. Users can see how much their savings have contributed in terms of reducing CO₂ emissions and waste production.

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City-integrated bike sharing platform

Donkey Republic developed and deployed a hub-centric bike sharing platform. The hub-centric model uses designated parking locations for the pick-up and drop-off of rentable bikes. A hub is defined by the GPS coordinates of a point and a radius (e.g. 10 meters) around that point within which riders can drop off a bike. This allows local authorities to control the use of public space, easily monitor locations and influence fleet distribution and growth. Users can count on bikes being available at specific locations. The Donkey Republic system is enabled by the communication between a mobile app and an electronic ring lock placed on the bike, via a low energy Bluetooth connection.

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StoreConnect

StoreConnect wrote: Denmark being the country with one of the highest shares of fluctuating wind energy in the world, it is a predestined role model for the aimed further development around the world. This leading role makes it a unique test centre for energy storage solutions, where we saw the need for a solution, which was fast to implement to overcome today's already existing problems. The underlying basis for our proposal is an existing solution, which uses kinetic energy to store the produced electricity as potential energy. This is done with concrete blocks which are lifted by a six-armed crane, with an intelligent control system to manage its movements, and therefore without the need for height differences in the terrain... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Incentive platform for sustainability

Inno group wrote: App which acts as a platform for the three actors. Citizens are incentivsed by gamification and given points for choosing most green micro mobility options. Micro mobility service providers are incentivised by getting an even more green image and actually being more green as well as retaining customers. Partners are also incentivsed to being more green and by retaining customers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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E - scooter racks

MiMo racks wrote: The problem is to start and end the daily journey. Therefore we want to propose racks that can be used to store e - scooters inside public trasportations, like busses, trains and trams. This is in order to encorage people to switch from cars to e - scooters to get to the city... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Regulation of inner city traffic

The Toll Both Zone Team wrote: A person is driving alone in their car. As this person approaches the city, ai technology registers the car and the amount of people driving in the car. A fee is then charged depending on the zone, whichis entered, and decreases according to the amount of passengers. The bill is then sent on a monthly basis. The zones become increasingly expensive as the car approaches the city center. There is an opportunity to enforce low/zero-emission city zones. Alongside the toll system, initiatives for more sustainable options are launched. These can include improvements within the public transport system (cheaper fares, etc... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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Car-free Aarhus city center

Group two many cars in Aarhus wrote: Today cars can drive freely into the city, we propose that we make a car free zone in the city, but still giving the people flexible transportation options to get in and around the city. We propose that the city of aarhus adapt and introduce the concept of “park and ride” (p+r). P+r is a concept where the cars park outside the city in a parking house and use other more sustainably types of transportation to get into and around the city. The idea is that you park your car in one of the p+r-houses and use your fee as a ticket to other types of transportation. These transportation options could be public transportation like bus or light-rail, or the more flexible micromobility (light vehicles) options like bikes, e-bikes, e-scooters... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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MovER: Personalised microbus system

movER wrote: Mover transport is a mode of mobility that seeks to redefine the public transportation experience and facilitate micromobility uptake in order to encourage more sustainable behaviour in aarhus citizens. Using a route optimization platform that operates in realtime, commuters input their pickup location and destination, which aggregated with other commuters in their area to find a common pickup point and drop off locations near their workplace for a personalized . Such points would be walkable to the final destination, but encouraging micromobility alternatives such as vois and swapfeit fleets with availability at the sites to take for shorter distances... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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NOGC

NOGC team wrote: To develop and implement green solutions should be fun, inspiring, and create good social relations. The citizens of denmark should have the tools and means for living in a sustainable way. This will only be possible if education, the right opportunities and a supporting local community is present. How do we create local sustainable communities/municipalities/regions?. We believe, that besides doing the small things, such as saving water or energy here and there, the citizens of denmark should have the opportunities to participate in creating greener local communities while getting together and having fun. Therefore we created nogc... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

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