Support for making knowledge about air pollution

Let us know more about air pollution of Nyíregyháza wrote: Our group has created a new plan and a possible process system to support independent, especially young high school and university students, researchers as well as civil persons who would like to do something for environmental protection (for example in the topic of air pollution). The support system would be in connection with the local companies and authrities. The local authorities are willing to make a possible fund for support local proposals. The applicants may get in touch the competent persons. This possible support system is consisted of the following subsequent steps: creating the idea. Submit the plan to the platform. Analyzing opportunities by the competent authorities (possible need of financial or equipment support)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Hungary

Biodegradable edible plastic from milk

Milkywaste-zero waste wrote: We can see a lot of alarming facts and figures about our planet slowly drowning in plastic waste. But at milkywaste we also noticed decreasing prices of bovine milk in europe on one hand and increased production of powdered milk on the other hand. This can cause eu farmers to lose their jobs and for all of us to lose our beloved planet. That is why we found an environmentally friendly way to use casein from milk to produce biodegradable and even edible plastic and coating for needs in the packaging industry. By using our products, you are prolonging the expiration date and quality of your products. Thereby increasing the shelf life and reducing waste and cost of waste transfer... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Slovenia

Build aqua drones that maintain waterways

Kayal Technologies wrote: Urban waterways in developing countries tend to be heavily polluted and urban poor live close to that. Keeping urban waterways clean is essential for healthy cities and also preventing ocean plastic pollution. However, the current global methods for waterway maintenance are labour intensive, inefficient and don't scale. We’re automating waterway maintenance with ai and drone technology. We are building all-electric aquadrones that collect floating debris and remove weed using computer vision. They also function as mobile data acquisition platforms, tracking waste aggregation trends while recording water and air quality data. We cut down the operational costs of waterway cleaning by up to 90 percent... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Sri Lanka

Thermoelectric static power generator

Supplying off-grid locations with power using a heat to electricity (thermoelectric) generator. Claims to increase efficiency from 4 % (existing products) to 8 %, reduce cost by 40 % (based on comparison between India and Canada), and reduce materials needed for similar applications.

India

Smart Parking

TrafficThon wrote: Main problems: air pollution in nyíregyháza. Crowded parking areas. Low emission issue. Problems causes more stress. Activites: establishment of sensors. Development of application. Establishment of led information panels. Development of software to analyse statistical data.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Hungary

Reducing plastic waste

CIRCUP wrote: Every minute 1 million disposable coffee cups are thrown away. This makes more than 500 billion cups in a year. The eu will ban single-use coffee cups by 2030. More and more companies, coffee-shops and gas stations are looking for ways to reduce the number of disposable cups and support consumers using their own reusable mugs instead. Based on our customer surveys we know that the majority of end-users already want to use their own travel mugs but there are no easy and efficient ways in the coffee shops or gas stations to wash the mugs quickly. We have a solution! circup produces quick-wash machines for reusable coffee cups based on dry ice technology... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Advancement Sciences LLC

Advancement Sciences LLC wrote: We, advancement science, present to you, effective hydrogen generator - the patented solution. With minimal energy consumption,. Producing cheap hydrogen, and sell hydrogen generator to hydrogen refueling stations for competitive price. Our beachhead market is hydrogen refueling stations in eu. The main value for the customer cheap price and low energy consumption, what makes his business extremely profitable. In 5 five years we aim to get the profit of € m 35,4 with 49 % shares of beachhead market. One set of generator reduce 4064 ton co2 emissions /year. Total potential of co2 reduction in eu is equal of 0. 5 b ton/ year. Inspire - to became worlds main hydrogen generator producers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Georgia

Integrated solar cooking/heating and battery

The AnnapurnaMPEP (Multi-Purpose Energy Pod) is a combined Sodium Nickle Chloride battery and Photo Voltaics solution with built in heat recovery. The unit can be used as an electricity back-up storage while the recovered waste heat from the Sodium batteries can be utilized for cooking purposes. The Energy Pod is built for low maintenance and has a predicted life length of at least 8 years. The innovation can be used for cooking and power back up in a typical rural home, replacing air polluting cooking stoves and fossil fuelled back-up generators.

India

Make Nyíregyháza greener

Green Day wrote: As an answer that we concluded we should have a community centre, office which deals with local orders, management of parks, green zones and issues about the general public being uninformed and unbothered. The general person only rarely hears about these issues in the news or the radio, but most of the time continues to ignore the facts. This is one of the biggest problems– people are uninterested, especially the elderly, because they keep saying that they won't be around for long anyway and that it's not their problem anymore. But in fact, everything they do still adds up and continues to pollute the earth. We believe that there has to be a place, an initiative that informs and moves people, teaches them and makes them act... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Hungary

A textile that generates energy

AUG-TEX wrote: Like it or not we are dependant on technology and technology is dependant on batteries when battaries run out of juice the technology becomes useless. This makes us dependant on localized energy sources. Currently mankind is developing better energy capacitors and the best of them are made from lithium. We make new types of batteries that charge the batteries in our devices if we are not able to use localized energy sources. The mining of lithium has already shown its harmful effects on our enviroment and it's a growing market therefore we propose an alternative solution to decrease the demand of batteries and therefore the demand for lithium... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia