Ecooil

Ecooil wrote: The current scenario of crop waste burning s a problem in india, punjab is a major cause of pollution along with transportation. Yearly, 20 million tonnes of wheat straws are produced of which 95% are burnt as waste and some to nourish fields through slash and burn practise. The outcome of pollution from transportation and crop burning results in three times more than of denmark only from northern india. Our mission is to convert these waste wheat straws using cleantech licensed process to produce second-generation biodiesel which can be utilized in the transportation and agricultural sector and supply biofertilizers back to farmers to nourish their fields... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Ecoscuola Challenge

Ecoscuola Challenge wrote: We, a group of students and concerned citizens met for the first time at palermo’s climathon. We had one major concern in common; a desire to reduce green house gases. So we came up with an idea. We decided the best way to implement fundamental change was to start with the fundamental building blocks of learning. We decided to issue a direct challenge to our local schools. Our solution was to create the ecoscuola challenge, a competition open to all schools in palermo to encourage them to do their part to reduce co2 emissions and waste. Our idea was simple... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Italy

EcoWarriors-A-Social-Game-Challenge

Houston EcoDevelopers wrote: Game storyline: the global climate change becomes a huge problem on earth and many animals are on the edge of extinction. To prevent the mass extinction from happening, the users will play the role of ecowarriors, and each of them are assigned with a mysterious egg of an endangered animal. Each animal they are assigned will be the very last one of a species. The players will incubate each egg at the beginning stage of the game. After the players reach a certain score, the egg will reveal their assigned animal ( i. E. Penguin, dolphin, whale, polar bear.) depending on the player’s choice of challenge, a set of tasks will be shown. The tasks are daily action in a person’s life, and every completed task be tracked and converted to score... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

United States

EcoWin Technologies

EcoWin Technologies wrote: With our platform we will allow organizations and companies to detect co2 sources on their production pipelines and reduce the emissions and optimize the efficiency... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Cape Verde

Edible Water

Nature:1 Carbon : 0 wrote: This project, named as the ooho project by rodrigo garcia gonzalez and pierre paslier, came to life in london in 2013 and was defined as the project of the future by 949 investors and supported by the eu. The aim of this project is to reduce or even finish the consumption of plastic bottles, glasses and types. While only 20% of the plastic bottles and species produced in the world are recycled, most of them damage the oceans and soil for hundreds of years. Recycling is achieved by consuming more energy than bottle production in the 20% recycled part. The ooho project was named notpla after the support it received and the researches continued in the laboratory... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Turkey

Education about sustainable waste management

Ekološka abeceda wrote: Our solution to the problem involves educating children in kindergartens and primary schools by educated persons. At the workshops, children would realize how fun recycling is and how much it would contribute to their future quality of life. In addition, they would further educate residential tenants' representatives for the proper disposal of large waste. They would inform their roommates of the proper disposal method. The other thing they would improve is the existing application. The user would receive certain discounts (such as coupons at mcdonalds) for recording properly disposed waste and scanning barcodes for recycling... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Croatia

Educational game encouraging Sustainable behaviour

Eco Buddy wrote: Our goal is to encourage people to think and learn about the biggest challenge of 21st century – climate change, which is hugely impacted by the waste we create (1/3 of food produced globally is wasted!). To do this we've invented a method&educational board game which is based on the processes of item production, our usage habits, educating about the environmental impact, circular thinking and recycling options. We help teachers to set sustainable thinking into children (10+) through an easy & playful approach... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Latvia

Educational program for a circular economy

Team Dieter wrote: Our solution to the problem of not getting smes involved with circular economy is an educational program which will be additional to the already established apprenticeships that are offered in smes. The program is an on top, mandatory module. The apprentencies will have to pick up a challenge/ a project within the company after have been working there for 6 months. They will get a professional training and necessary inormation about ce in order to be able to implement ideas within the company they are working for. Moreover, there will be certifiates handed out after the 3 year apprenticeship to both, the apprentencies and the companies... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Effective industrial drying of biomass

Swedish Exergy develops solutions for sustainability and optimization of energy usage in industry sectors such as energy, waste and paper, mainly in the areas of drying and bulk feeding solutions. One of the solutions is a steam dryer for biomass that recovers 80% or more of the input energy in a closed-loop system which stops any emissions from entering the atmosphere. According to the company it is also easy to maintain and to integrate with other processes for energy optimization.

Sweden

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Efficient conversion of carbon dioxide

CO2atalyser wrote: Use of fossil fuel resulted in co2 growth in the atmosphere, which is one of the global problems is still waiting for its solution. Researchers are working on finding a catalyst for conversion of co2 to value-added organic chemicals with high efficiency. Efficient conversion of the co2 is a key challenge for the chemistry community. Co2 catalyser group is working on the same problem through electrochemical conversion of the co2. As an alternative of precious metal catalysts, we proposed to use naturally available mineral as an electrochemical catalyst. It can be applicable industrially because of economical advantages: low-cost, green technology. The main problem of our customers is finding cheaper and stable catalyst with the high ton/tof... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan