CO2 Calculator

CO2 Calculator wrote: Briefly summarized: we have looked at how we can make this mindset more visible to the public while reducing the upcoming problem of introducing the co2 tax to the citizen. Our idea is an app and an associated power / energy / co2 meter for the household. The app uses existing databases (miles & more, db card, paypack, health app), that mean those that already track our behavior. Via the app, the user receives specific offers from our partner companies / institutions (engineering companies, bmu, transport companies) on how to reduce their co2 consumption and thus also save taxes. So an intelligent system, which follows the everyday life of a person and always shows the potential for improvement... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Coffee based, double-effect organic face cream

MES Beauty wrote: Conventional beauty products contain hormonal disruptive and cancerous synthetic chemicals, while organic counterparts are not long-lasting. To solve these problems mes beauty offers. Organic face cream which is 100% toxic chemical free, cheaper and twice more long-lasting. Our product is made using special coffee extract formula which eliminates need for toxic chemicals and gives it both anti-aging and moisturizing effects. Additionally, specially designed package increases shelf-life of cream and provides anti-bacterial effect for it. By using mes beauty product toxic chemical disposal to the environment can be reduced significantly... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

Coffee grounds as fertilizer

SUD & SATZ wrote: Coffee grounds are being disposed as garbage - 9 million tons every year, worldwide. Our plan is to use this awesome resource in a new and innovative way. . Currently we are developing our first product: coffee to grow, an all-natural, all-compound fertilizer. This fertilizer does not only provide your plant with all the nutrients it needs, it also builds up a strong and fertile layer of humus. That way we save co2-emissions and offer a way to transform worn out low nutrient ground into a rich and profit-yielding soil for decades. . Vienna, the city with the 3rd highest coffee consumption rate worldwide, offers the perfect setting to farm this resource and learn everything we need to scale all over europe. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Coffee waste air purifiers

Coffeelters wrote: The coffeelter takes in the polluted air and blows out the clean air. The most important part of the filter is coffee waste which stops pm2. 5 particles. Coffeelters also gather the environmental data such as pollution, noise and sunlight level which can be sold to the data collecting companies. Another functionality of coffeelter is providing information via wifi about the transport and entertainment in the city. Coffeelters will be placed at the bus or tram stops or stations so in places where people are waiting nearby the traffic... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland

Coheatsion

Coheatsion wrote: Heatwaves are a silent killer, especially for isolated elderly who may not have family or support nearby. Over half of all australians report they feel lonely on at least 1 day per week. Loneliness is greatest among young adults and the elderly. We built an app to mitigate the impact of heatwaves for vulnerable elders by providing a local support network for them, referencing youth. Creating cohesion at a time of crisis. The app triggers a push notification during a heatwave, for a youth (heatmate) to check up on nearby elderly. The youth checking in on the elderly notes in the app how he/she is feeling, these data points further updates the elderly’s risk score. All heatmates are verified first through a background check... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Australia

Cold-rolled ribbed steel bar with high ductility

Anyang Heli Techtronic Metallurgy New Technology Co., Ltd have developed cold-rolled ribbed steel bar with high ductility. It combines several manufacturing techniques to enhance the strength of steel bar, and then improves its ductility with heat treatment process to eliminate residual stress and repair the microstructure defects. The company claims that, compared to traditional hot-rolled technique, their technology saves about 40% of energy, as well as alloy materials, such as vanadium nitrogen, manganese silicon. Furthermore, to produce a ton of steel with their technology could save 130 kwh of power, as well as 9.3 kg standard coal, and cost near zero amount of water.

China

Collective

Collective wrote: We provide an information hub that serves as a starting point to learn more about the necessity of personal action against climate change to raise and maintain awareness, no matter how much you have already been involved. This hub does not only deliver you the knowledge and education on why change is needed but gives you instant access to in-house solutions to reduce your carbon footprint, as well as an overview of all sustainable alternatives in the respective cities, that you can simply implement into your lifestyle. Apart from this, it will be an open platform to share local and regional petitions and inform about other ways to help in achieving change, within our partner organizations... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Switzerland

Color of Bacteria

Vienna Textile Lab wrote: The vienna textile lab is identifying bacteria, growing bacteria, extracting colourants and purifying the pigments in order to sell them to textile companies... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

coltivare l'incoltivabile

Dream Team wrote: Coltivare l'incoltivabile. The solution aims to repurpose disused urban areas for agricultural production. The consumption of soil due to excessive cementation keeps the arable and usable areas away from the citizen, leaving instead places of degradation and vacant structures. Our cooperative aims to reconvert spaces urban decommissioned spaces through aquaponic agriculture and the community supported agricolture model . Reconvert abandoned urban spaces through the use of modules for aquaponic agriculture and develop a model of cooperative cooperation with the community supported agricolture (csa) method, i. E. A community of citizens born to grow their food directly in a sustainable and supportive way... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Italy

ComeDaHorta

Intercambia-o wrote: Comedahorta initiative provides a multimodal platform (a website "comedahorta. Com" and a downloable mobile app) that will contribute to reduce food waste by helping people who would like to exchange their excedents of natural products with their neirbourghood with minial effort. Take a picture a an item you do not plan to consume and post it on "comedahorta. Com" instead of throwing it away (with the subsequent increase in the volume of waste that will need to go through the recycling processes). It's that simple. And on the other hand if you are interested in these organic products produced in nearby rural areas, you can just check out "comedahorta" and see what it is offered now near you... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Spain