Empowering rural under-served families

Project Uthaana wrote: With world bank estimating 1600 daily deaths caused due to waterborne bacterial diseases, 73 million working days lost and over 600 million dollars worth of medical expenditure spent yearly in india. Project uthaana seeks to solve a crucial problem of lack of clean drinking water. Using an innovative approach, project uthaana aims to remedy this issue by providing eco-friendly and affordable water filters made from clay and used coffee grounds... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

GOYTI. Sustainable mobility solutions

GOYTI. Sustainable mobility solutions wrote: Almost 3/4 of the population lives in urban areas where transport generates almost 50% of the pollutants that harm people's health. Actual vehicles to move around cities are inefficient and are underused so we address this problem by creating efficient, clean and safe mobility solutions for urban areas adapted to the real needs of the people. Materials used nowadays on vehicles construction come from finite resources as steel, aluminium and petrol; therefore these generate a huge carbon footprint and a unacceptable bad impact to the environment and to the people’s health and life quality... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Spain

Microgrid energy management platform

Village Energy provides an artificial intelligence platform designed to create better preconditions for a reliable and low-cost power microgrid. The innovation provides customers with real time information on their energy grid which could affect their consumption patterns as well as spending on energy. This enables a shift in the consumption allowing the customers to consume energy when it is less in demand which reduces strain on the grid itself.

India

Recycled Paint

CIRCOULEUR wrote: We want to recycle waste paints instead of incinerating them. There is about 45 million liters of unused waterborne paint which is incinerated each year in france alone, leading to high release of carbon in the atmosphere. We will collect it and use it as a material to make more environmentally friendly new paints !.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

France

Hydrogen fuel from biomass

GreenFuel wrote: We are working to accelerate the market deployment of hydrogen gas. Our effort is to provide an alternative energy solution which is reliable, efficient, renewable, sustainable and easy to produce. We aim to produce hydrogen gas from biomass in estonia and make it an exportable commodity along with helping develop hydrogen ecosystem within estonia. Greenfuel wants to supply a world changing business opportunity for fueling stations to increase their business prospect as hydrogen cars are going to grow substantially in near future.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

DD-BOX

DD-BOX wrote: Our project makes possible increase of effectivness of removing overdue medicaments, by modifying. Existing system, and encouraging people to fulfil their civil duty. Our idea is based on independent studies and is supposed to solve increasing problem of decaying medicaments on waste dumps. The issue is very hot mainly because of great destructive influence of the minor components produced during rotting process of some medicaments. Both in small towns, and big cities there is. Lack awareness of proper liquidation overdue drugs. On this account, alarming amount of medicines have been thrown into the waste dumps, and sewage plants. Current system is not good enough to overcome this problem... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland

Electrochemical recuperator (ECR) batteries

Electrochemical Recuperator (ECR) represents a new class of batteries, introducing an alternative to existing energy storage technology. ECRs use water-based non-toxic electrolytes, which reduce fire risks and environmental hazards compared to conventional batteries. ECR cells’ manufacturing process has approximately five times lower carbon footprint than conventional Li-Ion batteries, according to the innovator. ECRs are constructed to endure more than 1 million charging cycles without major loss of performance characteristics. ECRs do not use scarce or ethically tainted materials.

Finland

QStamp® - Powerless flexible sensors

Mater Dynamics wrote: Mater dynamics has developed an environmental friendly microelectronic imbedded sensor, for product packaging quality monitoring and traceability. (qstamp®). The sensor is powerless, low-cost and can be programmed accordingly standard telecom protocols such as wifi, gsm or ble... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal

Digitizing shopping receipts

Paperless POS wrote: We are selling paperless receipt service to shopping malls. . Our service is based on a device that is easily installed between pos (point of sale) terminal and a printer capturing receipts. Customers can push a button and get printed chit or use mobile phone or rfid card to receive digital receipt. . Shopping malls will also get real-time sales data which allows them much better marketing and business intelligence, real-time promotion results monitoring and revenue assurance... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

ReDrive

ReDrive wrote: Our main business idea is to create a distribution network of biofuels, especially biodiesel (fame and faee). Also production of biodiesel may includes utilization of recycled components e. G. Used cooking oils. Our motivation is to spread waste-to-energy, profitable fuel among diesel engine users and to affect the environment by reducing co2 emissions in comparison to organic diesel fuel... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland