Touch-free shower technology

Sh2ower wrote: Sh2ower is designed to prevent unreasonable water draining. It senses when you are under it and lets the water flow on you. Besides, it saves energy used for heating and it also reduces your bills. . Everybody takes shower. In apartments, villas, dorms and especially in hostels and hotels which is our initial market. If for example all hotels in the us switch to sh2ower, it will save them $1b every year. . How it works. Simply remove the old head and install sh2ower and you are ready to go. If you step aside for any reason like soaping, shampooing or taking a selfie it automatically stops the stream. To warn you that the water is too hot it also automatically stops water at 50 degrees celsius. Batteries are recharged as the water runs... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

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

Germany

Toilets that seperate and collect urine

Urbantransitioners wrote: We partner with low-income communities like keko machungwa in dar es salaam to build toilets that separate urine. We then collect the urine and sell it as fertilizer to large scale farmers, subsistence farmers and gardeners. With our solution we help farmers to fertilize, irrigate and repel their crops. We also tackle the challenge of water scarcity, work for affordable sanitation and promote health and hygiene. . Our goal is that by the end of 2017 we have five farmers as early adopters using urine on their crops. Secondly, because we want to see dar es salaam as a lush and green city, we will built 10 000 toilets in dar es salaam by 2027. Ultimately, we aim to dry sanitize dar es salaam and make it an example worldwide... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

To make commuting more sustainable

GreenShift wrote: We connect drivers with empty seats in their car with people from the same community to commute together. With our solution we are able to decrease pollution, traffic jams in rush hours and noise. . Greenshift is an app for community ride sharing. The app does matchmaking, scheduling and billing for the commuters. Commuters have more high quality time, spend less on transportation and meet their neighbors for ride sharing... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

To Bee

To Bee wrote: Our solution is to create ecosytem service which will help to bring more bees into gauja national park area and they with the ability of pollinate flora will help to sustain the biological diversity. Moreover, we see it not just as placing bee hives in the park area but also creating system to take care of them. There we see local community as a crucial player - we will ensure course for local cesis inhabitants to learn basics about beekeeping and they will be the ones taking care of bee farm. In addition to that, gauja national park and cirulisi nature trails are popular attraction points for tourists... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Latvia

Thin CIGS solar cells

Midsummer’s innovation Midsummer Slim, which is a solar panel composed of thin film CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) solar cells. The solar panel is ultra-thin with a thickness of 2 mm and an average weight of 3 kg/m2. The panel can be integrated into roofing materials such as folded sheet roofs and roof tiles, and it can also be mounted externally on existing roofs. It has a nominal effect of 144 Wp and a production capacity of 100 Wp/m2. The manufacturer information states that the panel has a maximum efficiency of 16 % at a cellular level.

Sweden

Thermoelectric static power generator

Supplying off-grid locations with power using a heat to electricity (thermoelectric) generator. Claims to increase efficiency from 4 % (existing products) to 8 %, reduce cost by 40 % (based on comparison between India and Canada), and reduce materials needed for similar applications.

India

Thermo-electric power from cooking stoves

Heat-to-power conversion for household use in rural areas

India

The web platform to bring knowledge

WasteClass wrote: In europe, industrial wastes are the vast majority of waste, they follow complex chemical regulations, are expensive to dispose and most of all landfill is still a big threat for the environment. We believe in a waste market with simpler regulations, fair competition and with small companies bringing great innovation. Wasteclass is a web platform that simplifies chemical regulation making simpler and faster for a waste producer to choose the best disposal solution... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

The Villigr platform

Villigr wrote: "fail to plan -. Plan to fail" - with the exception of a handful of cities in the world, we are failing to plan for climate change, very often because we don't even have a plan. Villigr is designed to enable local actors to carry out detailed analysis of their local town or village using geodesign technology that will enable them to produce sustainability plans for their town or village regardless of the size. Villigr facilitates us to "think globally - act locally".. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Ireland