Freight club against transport emissions

Freight Club wrote: Our solution is a software that enables companies in dense industrial areas to connect to share their unused capacities. This can easily be rolled out in additional areas as there are thousands of similar cases in germany and beyond. Furthermore, closer collaboration on transport could lower the risk of transitioning to lower-emissions vehicles, such as electric of fuel cell trucks. The software could be financed by a subscription model for the participating firms. The cost savings and image improvement through lowering emissions and increasing efficiency will more than make up for the subscription fee... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Fireland

Fireland wrote: We use thermoelectric devices in fireland technology. The thermoelectric device generates a voltage when there is a different temperature between each side. We use fire and sunshine to heat one side. When a voltage is applied to a thermoelectric device, it creates the temperature difference. We use this effect to cool another side. This difference in temperature will make electric. Our project creates energy from fire, sunshine, and cold. One of the main function of our project is getting energy without damaging the environment. As we get energy from the difference between temperatures we do not damage the nature... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

pink bacteria as sustainable aquafeed

PINKtech wrote: Pinktech uses easy manageable natural biological materials - a small cute. Pink bacterium - to feed aquatic organims, improving. Viability, color and fecundity while also improving the quality of the ‘ habitats’ ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Collective

Collective wrote: We provide an information hub that serves as a starting point to learn more about the necessity of personal action against climate change to raise and maintain awareness, no matter how much you have already been involved. This hub does not only deliver you the knowledge and education on why change is needed but gives you instant access to in-house solutions to reduce your carbon footprint, as well as an overview of all sustainable alternatives in the respective cities, that you can simply implement into your lifestyle. Apart from this, it will be an open platform to share local and regional petitions and inform about other ways to help in achieving change, within our partner organizations... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Switzerland

Green garbage bags and warm bed mattresses

Solution for Delhi's Pollution wrote: Burning of paddy straw is major cause of air pollution to go up to hazardous level in delhi during winter. Farmers of delhi and it's neighboring states, punjab & haryana burn paddy straw because it has no economic value for them. Our patent-pending technique for making environment friendly green garbage bags, carry bags and bed mattress from paddy straw would solve delhi's pollution problem. Paddy straw bed is quite warm, so it can be provided to people of cold regions. Plastic is banned in more than 80 countries world-wide and in india, plastic is banned in almost every state. In fact, in maharashtra plastic ban is being followed strictly and heavy fines are being imposed for use of plastic... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

X-Femme

X-Femme wrote: Recent years have seen a movement to ditch the disposable and let reusables reign. While reusable menstrual products generate less waste, do they really have less environmental impact? menstrual cups usually made of silicone remain intact for decades. Period underwears and cloth sanitary napkins use non-biodegradable leakproof material. Disposable sanitary pads and tampons marketed as "organic" may contain plastics that are not necessarily bio-based and/or biodegradable. Girls and women are yet to achieve zero-waste-period zen. X-femme strives for true zero waste periods through sustainable convenience... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

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

Get money from waste

WasteMerchant wrote: Wastemerchant is a digital platform that incentivizes sorting of household/institutional waste by creating a trading platform of such sorted waste. By streamlining such operations in the growing complexities of urban spaces and combined with technological solutions, our platform reduces the costs for governments/municipalities for waste treatment. Our solution promotes sorting which leads to more recycling and reuse and less to landfill and incineration. And fosters a positive environmental impact... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Finland

Reducing the data carbon footprint

Swiss Vault Systems wrote: Data is driving the new global economy, and the world’s datasphere is predicted to grow 10x by 2025. Currently, data centers use 3% of the global energy production, and this will expand to 10% in the next decade. Our patentable innovative data storage technology is 100x more efficient in electrical power consumption, 200x more efficient in space utilization - thus, decreasing overall carbon emissions and making data management “greener” for our innovation economy... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland

Konsus

Konsus wrote: In konsus, we seek to provide the biggest climatic impact possible, by reducing housing usage of water, heat and electricity. . To be able to reduce consumption, it is necessary to get a transparent and simple overview of historical consumption data. We ultimately want to build a flexible and easy-to-use monitorization software, allowing housing administration companies to get an overview of their unavoidable household consumption. In denmark, these companies. Administrate houses on behalf of 1. 2 million danes, and have certain sustainable goals set by politicians, but lack the required resources and insights to execute... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark