Making food cheaper

Dude where is my tractor wrote: Uber for farming. We are creating a world where a farmer can get the work done on their field up to 1/3 cheaper and 10x faster by just clicking a button. No need to own expensive equipment and hire scarce talent. We make sure that the work gets done on time and in high quality by partnering up with the best service providers with most efficient equipment and professional operators and solving their machine utilisation problem. It's a trillion dollar business... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Making Green Choices Easier

eco-log wrote: Eco-log is an app and a chrome add-on, that helps you make green choices easier. When you look for products online, we add their environmental impact score,. So you have the power to make better choices. With all the information at your fingertips, you can compare different products,. Businesses, and alternatives, so you influence the market... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Israel

Making insects part of our staple diet

Burgs Foods wrote: There is a rising demand for animal protein worldwide. The current way we produce this protein is however very unsustainable and a drain on our resources and the environment. Crickets as a food are full of the essential vitamins and nutrients the body needs and packed with protein. Additionally crickets require much less food, water and land to rear making it a perfect environmental friendly protein source. . We at burgs foods set out to produce healthy and tasty food products based on insects. Our first product is the burgs burger, a cricket based burger. With the burger and additional food products we want to push a food revolution to make insects part of our staple diets in europe by 2030... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Netherlands

Making potty-training fun for everybody

RoPotty wrote: In 1950-s 95% of children where potty trained by the age of 1,5 years. Today, children in the developed world wear diapers until 3 years on average. By reducing this age we save over a billion disposable diapers a year, that would otherwise end up in landfill. Ropotty is a special potty-training device that parents can rent to teach their toddlers how to use the toilet. Making the potty exiting, educating and fun for children, helps the parents to save a lot of time, nerves and energy. We are building a renting system. That means parents don’t have to worry any more about what do to with the potty after their child is trained. They can just send it back to us and we will use it again... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Making valuable product from waste

BrighterAlgae wrote: Our idea is to grow microalgae near powerplants and use their co2 and warm water to produce biodiesel. And since algae has lot to offer, we make use of everything that helps us to keep the biodiesel price low and profits high... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Making Waves

Making Waves wrote: By researching grant application process on a contunuous basis, actign as an agent for grant access aggregation & ensuring grant aid is spent in the most effective manner, the befits of technologie such as retrofitting & generation fo celan energy are made availaible to more... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Ireland

Mango solar

mango solar wrote: 1. 2 billion people in the world have no access to electricity. They satisfy basic energy needs through kerosene, which is expensive and harmful to health - especially for children. We from mango solar develop long-lasting solar home systems so people can enjoy clean and safe energy, 80 times brighter lighting and save up to 590 € in 5 years. In addition, we provide a robust and waterproof smartphone, enabling people access to the online world for the first time in their life. At the same time, this is the interface to our mango cloud, providing services like remote support, education and financing. This is how we’re shifting digitalization to previously unreachable areas!... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany

Mangrove: Help Earth Breathe

Mangrove Team wrote: Our solution is divided into two parts, the first part includes the planting of mangrove forests along the red sea coastline that is 760 kilometer long, these forests will have an enormous positive impact in absorbing co2 emissions, these forests will also serve in marine conservation. The second part of our solution is a project that will assist in the funding of the mangrove forests planting as well as spreading awareness concerning environmental challenges, ; this will be accomplished by the establishment of a factory that manufactures biodegradable shopping bags that will have also tags that spreads information regarding the environment... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Sudan

Manufacturers of biodegradable tableware

Recycle-It wrote: We will be manufacturing biodegradable tableware using waste products such as sargassum seaweed and bagasse. So as to cut down on single use plastics pollution throughout the world.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Barbados

Map of eco-friendly spots

RRRadar wrote: We build a mobile app which helps you follow three well-known principles: reduce, reuse, recycle. . The main feature is a map of points where you can bring recyclables: containers, charity organisations, funds or any other related spots. This is especially actual for countries with poor recycling infrastructure. . We also put eco-friendly businesses on the map - restaurants, coffeeshops, groceries which are carefully selected by our team. . In order to ease following the rrr-lifestyle we bring our users some educational articles, related tips & tricks... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Russian Federation