Zöld Debrecen

Green IT wrote: The base concept is that the governance and different environment-friendly organizations can register for the portal, where they can publish notifications, news, event, and surveys. The targeted audience is the people of debrecen, who are encouraged to use the application with a point gathering system, which they can earn by participating in events and questionaries and by reading the news. These points could be exchanged for merchandised goods and coupons in partner stores... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Hungary

Zinc ion battery

Cost efficient, eco-friendly, robust batteries that power renewable energy/micro-grid, telecom towers & electric vehicles. Our first invention is a ‘ZincGel® battery’, that combines innovation in electrolyte, democratized material and electrode design, leading to breakthrough in dnergy density, power density and energy efficiency at a very cost-effective end user price. We have modified 150 year old zinc and Manganese-Dioxide chemistry to cater to the current energy storage opportunities. Our plan is to prove ZincGel battery’s strength in a few business cases by running small scale pilots. This data will establish our credibility and strength over other competition.

India

Zero-emission, battery-electric buses

Proterra designs battery-electric vehicles for the transit industry. Designed from the start as an exclusively electric bus, the vehicle aims to provide flexibility and performance, with Proterra claiming the greatest range of any zero-emission, battery-electric bus in its class. Made with an advanced carbon-fiber reinforced body and efficient electric drivetrain, the bus is designed to endure nearly two decades of on-road service, with minimal maintenance required.

United States

Zero waste tourism

No trail wrote: We asnotrailcompany will organize and provide several services for the active outdoor tourists and local businesses. We will offer b-b and b-c services that are focused on zero-waste and low carbon footprint ideas. Wehave rearised that the best way to ensure tourists stay longer in the city and get to enjoy what it has to offer in an environmentally friendly way is to offer guided activities. This service has been on a high demand, but local businesses have not managed to offer such type of services. We as a company would prepare packagepre-madeoffers for the tourist that incorporate different type of activities. They will have different rang in terms of difficulty, time of duration and interest points... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Latvia

Zero waste B2B delivery solution for food

Pandobac wrote: Pandobac replaces disposable packaging used for food delivery for restaurants by renting reusable crates to wholesalers against a monthly subscription: wholesalers deliver food in them and then restaurants give back the crates for the next delivery. Additionally, pandobac provides washing and tracking services to ensure a circular economy of crates... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

France

Zero plastic waste in Zpw application

RE-FUTURE wrote: 1. The zpw application connects the government,customers,plastic production and recycling companies（plastic trash machine） and markets into a closed plastic recycling system that can achieve zero plastic waste in city. 2. The government helps plastic production and recycling companies establish closed plastic recycling systems and make policies. Government and plastic production and recycling companies put plastic trash machine in various areas of the city. The main function of this plastic trash machine is scoring for the users who collect the plastic waste (maybe 10g per point). Users can log on his application to get the points when the input the plastic waste into plastic trash machine. 3... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

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

Zero emission taxi-sharing

rentE wrote: Private hire taxis are one of the main contributors to city centre air pollution. Operating costs for these taxis are also extremely high, especially for the 55% of uk uber drivers who work less than 30 hours a week. . Rente solves both of these problems, by offering europe's first fully inclusive, fully electric rental service for taxi drivers. The cars are charged using 100% renewable electricity from our own rapid chargers. This coupled with car sharing allows rente to offer rentals under half the price of the competition. . Drivers simply choose their weekly package, book their hours and use our app to unlock the vehicles. With partnerships already established with uber and byd, rente launched in birmingham in september... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Zefiro

Zefiro wrote: Zefiro is a smartphone application that approaches the digital athlete and young people in the open air sport world. Zefiro tells the sportsman the closest place to him with the best climate where he can do the desired sport!. Zefiro's sports are divided into three categories: -water, for sports in the maritime and river areas;. -air, for flying activities;. -earth, for sport on the ground. In addition to this, zefiro helps companies to reduce co2: employees will be able to find out the best way to walk, run or cycle from home to work. “zefiro” is a light breeze, and spring messenger: this is what the application promises to do, pointing to the user places where the climate is no longer an obstacle but an ally... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

YVY Brasil

YVY Brasil wrote: 90%+ of usual home cleaning products are actually water ! the remaining 5-10% are petrochemical, chlorine and phosphates. Why do they keep moving millions of tons of water around ? why using an enormous amount of plastic bottles to pack all this water ? our oceans know where this sad story will finish up. Yvy (which means soil/land in tupi-guarany, the language of most important native indigenous tribe in brazil) was created to break up this insane chain and disrupt this market. We use only natural/vegetable ingredients in our formulas ! yvy developed small recyclable plastic capsules to carry on our super concentrated formulas reducing by 2/3 the amount of plastic used compared to the current competitors... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Brazil