Recharge electrics cars while driving

Duomobile wrote: A new way to recharge electric cars on highways, while moving. With a special hitch and autopilot system, it can follow any car having a standard hitch ball. Duomobile will free electric cars from waiting at stand points. Duomobile will improve safety : driver fatigue causes one in five fatal crashes on highways. Sharing drive save lives. The owner will benefit the relaxing comfort of an autopilot car. A co-operative and environmentally friendly transport system, saving energy from the aerodynamic drag by linking vehicles (even non electric). More electric cars will reach towns with a full battery, reducing. Towns pollution... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

France

We create self-sustainable vertical farm

CloudVegs wrote: We will combine existing cutting edge farming technologies, like aquaponics and vertical farming, to create a self-sustainable farms inside abandoned apartment buildings in cities. This means that we need to use considerably less water and land. As we are not using any pesticides and other industrial chemicals, the produce will be fully organic... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

OL2G BKB

OL2G BKB wrote: Project ol2g bkb designs and commercializes biobased polymer super absorbant by crude glycerin. The glycerin is a waste from biodiesel industry transformation. This process provides the opportunity to obtain biobased diapers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

France

Cansat that measures air pollutants

Cansat wrote: Improving people's health, identifying points where there is poor air quality, sending alerts about healthy limits of air quality in real time . Example: if there are high levels of air pollution in my environment in real time, send me an alert to stop doing outdoor activity. Visualization of this information on a free internet of things server as well as in a mobile app. The station can send air quality information in real time, you can download the history of the measurements in excell tables to later make an analysis of this information... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Mexico

Automated vertical garden

Plantonica wrote: We develop an automated vertical garden with hydroponic technology that will produce herbs in a sustainable way. The system will also have a screen that will show data about the cultivation. Process, but also emails, news or food recipes being able to be personalized by the user. The. Project is using the cutting-edge technology that will allow the user with no training in plant. Cultivation to grow fresh food, and the system could be monitored remotely. Moreover, we will. Integrate voice recognition commands that will bring the people close to the system, using ai. Technology. The myth of talking to plants to make them grow better will become reality through our way of linking technology with the plant science knowledge... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Romania

One Cherry

One Cherry wrote: One cherry is an award-winning social enterprise startup based in edinburgh. We created an online marketplace that makes shopping for pre-loved items from local shops more convenient and accessible to the customers. One cherry helps local second-hand shops, such as charity shops, be more profitable by increasing their footfall, promotes circular economy thus supporting the great work done by the charities. . Today, second-hand marketplaces are growing 20 times faster than retailers overall. The global clothing resale alone is expected to jump from £12. 8b in 2016 to £23. 4b by 2021. We aim to ride this trend and make it easier for people to adopt the “make, use, return” model... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

Dispersa Inc.

Dispersa Inc. wrote: At dispersa, we are harnessing the power of microbes to present low-cost, 100% biodegradable, and versatile specialty chemicals, such as surfactants, used in a variety of industrial applications... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Canada

GreenPACT City

GreenPACT City wrote: The target is to reduce co2 emissions by 50% (agenda 2030). Greenpact city offers an online portal to citizens and municipalities to monitor the direct emissions of family units. The portal calculates citizens’ carbon footprint. We will convert the information from citizens bills and daily activities in total amount of carbon dioxide emitted. The web-portal will provide a simple, elegant and visual way for the family unit of monitoring their carbon dioxide emissions. The municipality establishes the annual co2 target for each household and through the monitoring of the portal, virtuous citizens are rewarded. Virtuous habits and behaviours of citizens reduce the cost of the investments necessary to reach the 2030 agenda... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Italy

Natural compost building material

Hempstatic wrote: 50% of global carbon emissions stem from heating, cooling and constructing buildings. Currently, there is only little awareness concerning this issue. Hempcrete is a natural composite building material. It consists of hemp shives (derived from the wooden inner core of industrial hemp stalks), lime-based binder and water. Our hempcrete block is a construction material that can be used to assemble walls, roofs and floors and can be adjusted to all types of buildings. More carbon dioxide is sequestered in a hempcrete wall than is used to build it. Thus, hempcrete blocks outperform zero-carbon materials and allow building carbon-negative structures... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Circular designed bathroom accessories

Undisturbed wrote: Imagine removing plastic from the ocean, because it's harming our planet. And adding something that's great for our planet, like hemp fabric. To make something beautiful and functional for bathrooms. . We are undisturbed and we are developing our first product, a circular designed shower blind for bathrooms. We are challenging the current linear plastic or glass shower curtains and screens which are impacting our environment during manufacture and when they end their use in landfill. . Our customers will benefit from a product that is easy to install and replace, is mould and mildew free, very low maintenance requiring no harsh cleaning products and won't cling to your legs whilst you shower... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom