The G.R.E.E.N. Kids Challenge

ClimaTech wrote: The g. R. E. E. N. Kids challenge educates pupils in topics concerning climate change and the impact of one’s own lifestyle on climate change. It animates children and their parents to take climate actions in their everyday life by showing simple solutions and more sustainable alternatives to traditional approaches. Children can participate in the challenge together with their classmates. Teachers use the provided information material to explain the challenges and their impact on climate change at school. For each challenge material with background information and further reading is provided. Pupils complete the challenges by uploading a photo to the app. The completed challenge needs to be approved by their teachers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Bioshade

Bioshade wrote: Bioshade is the result of mixing a green wall with a shading system in order to achieve a biophilic, building component that is living and changing, intended to filter solar radiation on one hand, and create a complex sensorial indoor experience on the other. It is not intended to crowd a wall, but to use the glazed surfaces of buildings, especially curtain walls of austere office buildings to create a vertical garden that shades and enriches the interior space in a way that resembles the loved and familiar feeling of siting (and working) in the peaceful shade of a tree... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Romania

ServedOnSalt

ServedOnSalt wrote: At servedonsalt, we are developing cooking solutions for refugee camps and rural areas where we want to store solar energy as thermochemical energy in a salt hydration process. Servedonsalt aspire to provide access to energy for cooking for the world’s poorest, whom are currently relying on firewood collection and cooking over an open fire. Our goal is to develop a low cost alternative to cooking with firewood, which will reduce deforestation caused by firewood collection and reduce the co2 emission and health issues related to cooking over open fire, hence contributing to reach sdg 2, 3 and 7... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Hands On Climate - Make Your Decision

Climate Choice wrote: Our proposal is to elaborate a collection ofstriking and especially self-centered workshop situations. This package can be used by educational institutions, climate aware parents or ngos. Here are three examples to effectively raise awareness for the most important challenges presented by climate change: breakfast: style of diet, packaging, production conditions. Way to school: means of transport. School: saving energy, saving water, waste separation. Leisure time: shopping, fashion, production conditions. Grocery shopping: food items, seasonality, regionality. Night time routine: hygiene products, microplastic, save energy/water... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

PowerWithinU

PowerWithinU wrote: Our charger was created thanks to rising popularity of mobile devices. Unfortunately they often run out of power pretty quickly and require frequent charging. This results in high need for electric power and increases amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Thanks to our device this problem can be fixed with the power of our own muscles on a way to work or school. During longer journeys it can also power one of many 6v devices like micro-fridge without increasing our carbon footprint. It is targeted towards cyclists, fans of new technologies and bike rental centers. In greater perspective our device will reduce demand for electric power, what will result in decrease of amount of greenhouse gases and dusts in atmosphere... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland

Ecooil

Ecooil wrote: The current scenario of crop waste burning s a problem in india, punjab is a major cause of pollution along with transportation. Yearly, 20 million tonnes of wheat straws are produced of which 95% are burnt as waste and some to nourish fields through slash and burn practise. The outcome of pollution from transportation and crop burning results in three times more than of denmark only from northern india. Our mission is to convert these waste wheat straws using cleantech licensed process to produce second-generation biodiesel which can be utilized in the transportation and agricultural sector and supply biofertilizers back to farmers to nourish their fields... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark

Zero plastic waste in Zpw application

RE-FUTURE wrote: 1. The zpw application connects the government,customers,plastic production and recycling companies（plastic trash machine） and markets into a closed plastic recycling system that can achieve zero plastic waste in city. 2. The government helps plastic production and recycling companies establish closed plastic recycling systems and make policies. Government and plastic production and recycling companies put plastic trash machine in various areas of the city. The main function of this plastic trash machine is scoring for the users who collect the plastic waste (maybe 10g per point). Users can log on his application to get the points when the input the plastic waste into plastic trash machine. 3... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Waste GOrganic

Waste GOrganic wrote: Food waste is the last thing we think about,but is a fact-food wastage is 1. 3 bln tonnes anually and the cost of food that goes to waste is $750 billion. And there we have a brilliant solution;this doesn't mean reducing the consumption of food,but rather creating and sell a product that remains in the entire chain of food transformations and returns in it's primal state in the form of an organic fertilizer for the soil. This fertilizer will serve farmers an alternative choice to chemical fertilizers that will be made by composters with advanced technologies in composting. The raw material will be taken from local supermarkets,hotels and restaurants... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Moldova, Republic of

RePhil

RePhil wrote: By introducing a circular system for reusable takeaway bowls rephil reduces waste stemming from to-go packaging. Rephil provides restaurants with reusable takeaway bowls, and therefore offers take-away costumers an attractive alternative, to produce less waste in their everyday lives, while increasing their take away dining experience. After having finished their meals costumers return the empty reusable boxes in our strategically positioned drop-off stations. Rephil collects the dirty boxes, washes them and reallocates them back to the restaurants. . The first markets for rephil are closed ecosystems in austria, primarily focusing on corporate canteens, university campuses, and hospitals... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Smart Competer

Dundees wrote: Smart meters are the future and can play a central role in controlling the ever-increasing power consumption. However, they also present us with some problems. For many, electricity consumption is an abstract concept. With our "smart compete" solution, we offer a visualized and gamified solution in which users are offered both an incentive and an alternative value with the help of competition and complementary currency... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria