Urban Organic agriculture network

Agriculture 2.0 wrote: Agriculture 2. 0 is a product that from the technique of aquaponics (fish and plant organic ecosystem) bring on the market a water saving agriculture technology, with a great carbon footprint and a higher quality of horticulture production. No co2 emission from plowing the ground, 80%-90% less water saving, no chemicals a fertilizers or pesticides are required. We can make agriculture become a zero impact process, with an autonomous system that produces the energy needed to give daily life to the ecosystem. To change the market rules and habits, we decided to enter the market a biodiversity catalogue that becomes an ecommerce marketplace where end user has food sovereignty with a farming on demand service. Agriculture2... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

Pulse

Pulse wrote: We focus on the development of a revolutionizing combustion engine we call pulse. . Unlike an ordinary combustion engine, that controls its output by only changing the amount of air-fuel mixture injected inside the combustion chamber, pulse has also the ability to control its compression ratio while it operates. . This way, pulse can operate much more efficiently and offer its maximum torque or frequency instantly, without needing a complicated transmission system like a gearbox. . There are many applications of pulse, like as a car engine, a turbine or a projectile launcher. But we will start from something small in order to penetrate the market. . We'll start selling pulse motorcycles designed for everyday, urban transportation. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Cyprus

App for reduction of single use plastic

Club EcoSmart wrote: We will start with contacting the bigger market chains in the country and markets. The intended start is having one item of one product that is offered in bulk sale. The customer will take a standard container provided (sold) by the store, take the desired amount. Then, the cashier will weigh the product and renerate a qr code which the customer will scan and save on his phone... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

SmarTTrack

SmarTTrack wrote: The smarttrack device is an autonomous system that tracks the sun in an intelligent way. How it works? it uses an algorithm to determine the precise position of the sun and finds the most optimal path that solar panels should follow in order to get the maximum possible power out of the solar panels. Our system will be used in solar farms that have solar panel installed on dual axis tracking systems. By using our product, in a cloudy day, we can increase the outputted power, by 10-12%. Furthermore, our solution outperforms existing methods by reducing moving time, thus decreasing solar farm maintenance necessities and motors power consuptions. Smarttrack, we increase popularity and efficiency of using renewable energy sources... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Moldova, Republic of

a/b fashion

a/b fashion wrote: Hello, we are a/b fashion and we would like to style the world in second hand.  . Our product is a monthly subscription to a styling service, with items specially selected from second hand markets. We spoke to 20 customers, 3 second hand stores, 5 experts, and ran 100 online questionnaires to develop our product, market, & financials. First priorities are: a seamless customer ux, and investing in the right staff. Our product aims for behavioural change using reward systems and gamification for reducing wardrobes, reusing and repairing pieces. At scale, reducing footprint of fashion. By 2022 we want our company to be the name people associate with sustainable fashion... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Netherlands

Efficient plastic recycling in Graz

REDDD wrote: The eu parliament has set a goal of recycling 50% of the produced plastic waste starting from 2025. In austria 28% of the annually produced plastic waste is currently recycled. That is because there are some issues with the waste separation carried out by the consumer and not all of the plastic waste from the recycling bin is actually recycled. That’s why we came up with a new waste collection/sorting system based on the deposit scheme already in use for glass bottles. The relevant collection machine works by scanning the barcode of the plastic packaging, looking up in a database if the product is recyclable, sorting the waste in a designated container and storing the information about which product was collected for further use... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Waste to feed solutions

Weendle wrote: Everything we do is to empower people to live in dignity, by rethinking and implementing innovative waste solutions. In weendle, we transform waste into feedstock with exceptionally high protein and fat content. This highly scalable and rapid process is carried out by our army of black soldier fly larvae. These exceptional creatures in combination with the skills and knowledge of our human agents, reka gugan and mathieu chaix-bar have the ability to prove that waste could and in fact, should be perceived as food/feed. Our business case to bring this mix into the market of africa will shed light on how we intend to achieve this. Hungry for more? stay tuned!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Netherlands

Regenerate Australia

Regenerate Australia wrote: Carbon sync enables transformational change in agricultural landscape management. This change results in the regeneration of ecosystems, renewal and repopulation of rural communities, remineralisation of food a fibre products and carbon sequestration potential so significant that it could bring australia to net zero emissions in as little as 20 years when adopted at scale. This is all achieved with exisiting, proven technology while at the same time producing food and fibre. This technology is called regenerative agriculture... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Australia

Real-time grid balancing platform 

Enbala Power Networks have developed a platform called “Concerto™” for real-time grid-balancing. Concerto™ is both a Virtual Power Plant (“VPP”) and a Distributed Energy Resource Management System that features interoperable, multi-service optimization with reliable real-time, non-disruptive, constraint-based operations to deliver long term value at all levels of the power delivery system. The platform has the potential to improve energy efficiency by its power monitoring and management system, reducing the amount of energy wasted.

Canada

Sengy - energy saving app

Sengy wrote: Sengy is a self-optimizing app which is designed as a climate change fighting game to motivate customers to save energy in their household. Not only you get a detailed look into your energy statistics of the past based on accurate data from your smart meter. You can actively be a part of weekly, monthly or seasonal challenges, quizzes and surveys to lower your energy consumption. Take a quiz to learn interesting facts about how and what amount of energy you can save, or search for an opponent to play with (e. G. Flat at the same size in m2, in people living in the household, or in a 2km radius), organize collective actions for pv in apartment buildings... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria