CycleFest

CycleFest wrote: Cyclefest will be a bi-annual event that aims to kick-start a movement that changes the current car culture of reykjavik city. Cyclefest aims to partner with reykjavik city, existing cycle clubs, institutions, and other businesses to invest in the success of the culture change by providing an event where the people of reykjavik can come to learn about bicycle maintenance, bike safety, winter biking, construction plans to improve bike paths, and much more, all while expanding exposure of the importance of biking and boosting sales for small businesses that support bicycling in reykjavik. The momentum has already started with the car-free day that happened last month and we need to act now to keep it going... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Iceland

Xylene

Xylene wrote: Importing timber into the eu, us and australian market involves the responsibility for ensuring the legal harvest – where certifications fail, launderers win!. Xylene revolutionises the way wood is offered on the market. A user-friendly tracking and tracing system uses a mobile application to ensure every step of the wood supply chain is documented from the forest to the final product. . With the help of blockchain technology, we offer the utmost confidence in the authenticity of the data, as the ledger is fully transparent, unchangeable and not centrally owned by any organisation. . The information can be monitored and managed by the customer through a connected web-based timber management system... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany

Vertical Farming based on Fog!

Baltic Freya wrote: Baltic freya is an agritech start up which is developing large-scale fogponic vertical farming modules for greenhouse farmers and agro-companies. Our team is focused on fogponics – the most advanced vertical farming technology so far. This innovative agriculture technology doesn’t use any soil, circular system doesn’t waste any resources - we are talking up to 95% less water and 50% less fertilizer than industrial farming. Since farming with our modules will be done indoors, your produce will be safe from harm. There will be no need for nasty pest control chemicals, there will be no fear of bad weather, floods and droughts... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Lithuania

Gasifier of waste with high ash content

The solution is developed as a small-scale and localised/distributed gasification of agricultural and municipal solid waste. The waste comes with a high level of inorganic matter. The organic matter can be further utilized for energy production which could offset the need for some fossil-fueled energy production.

India

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

Utilizing gravitational energy

Escalator KERS wrote: Escalators are electrically driven and average electric motor used has 100 kw. Modern escalators often use motors with frequent regulation, which significantly reduces electric consumption. But there's a situation for which conditions could be further utilized- when larger number of people is going down then up. Simple weight difference (gravitational component) can be stored in hydraulic pistons (kinetic energy recovery system- kers) for later use in the same escalator system... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

TruEarth

TruEarth wrote: At. Truearth, we produce high quality products from 100% recycled garment waste we use pre and post consumer waste we utilise 100% renewable energy for manufacturing we are a zero discharge company we save ~ 3000 litres of water / t-shirt which provides drinking water for an average adult for 3 years. We are an integrated manufacturing company with a vision to provide 100% product traceability. Our manufacturing saves 330 million litres / day of potable water enough to meet requirement of 110 million people. Our process is innovative, flexible and produces. High quality products of international standards. The company has filed 3 patents and is in the process of filing 3 more on sustainable manufacturing... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Thermo-electric power from cooking stoves

Heat-to-power conversion for household use in rural areas

India

PR Green Solutions

Baje wrote: As a group we are made the solutions for present status q of public utility "čistoća". First we want to made better communication with costumers by showing them what work is done by "čistoća" an what costumer is actually paying. We understand that costumers do not realize how much job is done by čistoća in one day so we suggest that they improve their app and work on social media. By that costumers can actually see what job is done and what it has to be done. Second solution is to invest in promotion with domestic celebrities who can make an impact within the people and encourage them to be more responsible with trash... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Croatia

Production of green methanol

Cynox wrote: One of the major green house co2 should be controlled at certain levels in the atmosphere inorder to minimise the climate change. Our technology is able to convert co2 into methanol. It is the most clean burning fuel ever known to mankind. Recycling of co2 into methanol could lead to negative emission. Methanol economy is the solution to our existing fossil fueleconomy to minimise threat of global warming. We believe that our this business model could help to achieve that... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark