Sari-cycling

Sari-cycling wrote: Our solution to the poor waste management system in our city is to create a social enterprise (called sari-cycling, a wordplay on the tagalog word “sari,” meaning variety, and the english word “recycling”) that will collaborate with sari-sari stores (which are small, community-based convenient stores that are found in every street in the philippines) by deploying recycling bins and environmental awareness posters to unused spaces in front of each store. Sari-sari store owners, who are regulated by local government units, will be incentivized on a monthly basis for providing space for our recycling bins and campaign posters. Our company will also partner with fmcg companies, junk shops, and local government units... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Philippines

Satellite imagery based big data

Agrovisio wrote: Agriculture lacks accurate and up to date data from the field, which affects sustainability of production, in the wake of climate change. Family farmers in low, middle and upper-middle income countries cannot easily afford expensive precision agriculture solutions which usually require high investment upfront. . Using a unique combination of general soil characteristics, climate models and satellite imagery, we designed agrovisio as a saas solution providing big data analytics from farm scale to national scale. With agrovisio, farmers will make decisions based on their hyperlocal crop data, will have a better planting strategy and will manage their yield and their risks far more effectively... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Turkey

Save your Planet

Save your Planet wrote: Environmental problems, are getting bigger and bigger and we need an easy and funny way to educate the public about the problem, . “save your planet” is a cross-platform, eco educational project consisted of: two animation series (one for pre-school and one for kids-adults), apps (smartphone-tablets) and books for kids. . The animation series has been selected and awarded in the biggest festivals all over the world, in europe, asia and the us. . Kids and adults, love animation series and also love (tablet-smartphone) apps... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Greece

Saving water and filtering out microplastics in washers

Mimbly has developed a retrofitted device, the Mimbox, that is connected to one or several washers. The water used during washing is circulated through the Mimbox, where the water quality is analyzed. If the quality is at the required standards, the water is then reused. According to Mimbly's website, this can save up to 90% of water and requires less energy that traditional use of washers. In addition, the solution also includes a filter that removes microplastics and other fibers from the water.

Sweden

Scalable, low-energy, bioreactor dewaterer

uFraction8 wrote: Ufraction8 builds products around a disruptive new liquid particle processing technology. Following our world leading research, establishing new levels of throughput for massively multiplexed microfluidic devices, our technology will be the key to unlock a prosperous and sustainable future. Our technology offers superior performance and cost savings against the big three liquid processing technologies of filtration, flow centrifugation and flocculation. High volume applications benefit by our unique ability to granularly match targeted volumetric throughputs and our ability to scale this beyond the physical limitations of competing technologies... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Scaling sustainable transportation

Freelway has a service that optimizes transportation made by individuals and companies through visualization and coordination all transports within a system. Using algorithms to match transport requests with available resources, the solution offers one app-based service which provides economic and environmental benefits for all actors. The service also allows for the integration of a post delivery system for transporting last mile deliveries. The market group is currently rural and urban users.

Sweden

SDG 13 Climate Action

SDG 13 Climate Action wrote: The campaign is divided in three population sectors: young people: audiovisual campaigns in social media through influencers and cartoons for kids. Example: paw patrol buying goods in local shops. Adults: audovisual campaigns through social media using influencers and documentals. Example: "the travelling tomato", a tomato that travels around the world showing how far a product can travel and its carbon foot print through the journey. Elderly people: campaigns in classic media like radio, newspapers or tv, using famous characters like "tom jones" as owner of a local shop, and how sad it would be if tom jones´s shop closes, to create empathy with the owners of local shops... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Spain

Seaweet

Seaweet wrote: Forests are becoming scarce, soils are getting drier and temperature is getting hotter than ever. And at a moment of a climate crisis we still need to feed 10 billion people in 2050. Either we adapt just like every specie did throughout the process of natural evolution or we inevitably face extinction. Seaweet wants to take part on this change by providing the most sustainable life source – microalgae. It doesn’t require arable land to grow, needs 6 times less water than maize and has more protein and iron than meat. At seaweet, we design microalgae based irresistible superfoods to every person that wants to eat in a sustainable and healthy way. Join the algae community and let’s repair the place that we call home... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Second Sun Systems

Second Sun Systems wrote: Stubble burning is big environmental problem for north india in particular and south east asia as a whole. Nasa has captured the image of this menace from space. We believe that farmers are burning crop residue for being easy and economical. Our aim is to provide farmers much easier and economical solution as compared to burning and of multipurpose use for farmers. Our technology decomposes stubble in-situ completely by spraying consortium of stubble decomposing microbes and methane loving methanotrophs which consumes the methane & carbon dioxide produced during the process of decomposing to give carbon enriched biomass to be used as fertilizer for next crop. It lowers atmospheric co2,... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Selective membrane separation solutions

FunMem wrote: Production and sale of a wide variety of functioonalized ceramic membranes for performant and energy efficient organic liquid separations. This opemns a new window of industrial applications. The substantial decrease of energy consupmtions and clear opportunities for process intensification will help the industry to reach their climate goals... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Belgium