Mitigation of the illegal dumping sites

CLENathon wrote: Citizens tend to dump various waste in illegal places around the city. Therefore, there is a problem regarding pollution, contamination, odour, un-used materials that they could be re-cycled (circular economy). The idea is to use nudging by placing bins or other methods with informative logos in the illegal dumping areas so citizens will be indirectly educated and separate the waste even in these areas. Therefore, the materials will be provided to the stakeholders involved as a valuable product. This solution will mitigate the waste with the potential to either establish a waste collection spot or completely remove it depending on the needs of the area... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Cyprus

Deep insight into green infrastructure

TrustWorth-E wrote: There is interest in green infrastructure investing but investors find it difficult to benchmark, analyze and understand the performance of these assets. We provide business intelligence – data. Analytics. Tools – to green infrastructure investors worldwide. . Data: we have data experts on-the ground in 10 geographic regions. They continuously collect and consolidate vast amount of macro-economic and asset-specific data that can drive returns of green energy investments. Analytics: our team of data scientists, mathematicians and full-stack developers builds an advanced-analytic system to identify from historic data the probabilities, correlations and impact of all likely factors driving returns... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany

VepoX Filter

VepoX Filter wrote: A vepox filter can serve an entire household for two years and, at usd 10 per unit, is the most affordable durable household filter on the ugandan market, paying for itself in just six months by eliminating the fuel costs of boiling water. Vepox users also save themselves both the time it takes to boil water and wait for it to cool and the risk of cross-contamination through storage in dirty containers. Women and children no longer have to fetch so much firewood, freeing up time for more productive activities and schoolwork. For households that previously did not treat their water, vepox filter is the first source of safe water for their families, with concomitant health benefits... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Uganda

Highly fuel efficient industrial furnace burners

Improve efficiency in industrial scale fossil burners by up to 15%

India

Gardens of the Future

Gardeners of the Future wrote: Gardens of the future provide for women entrepreneurs, a garden where they can plant their vegetables and fruits to feed their families as well as create their own products (jams for instance) and become economically independent. This place will provide all the necessary equipment so they can produce their product along with learning how to become agro-entrepreneurs. We will create a sustainable food supply for refugee women, their families and their communities respectively. Our solution creates a small sustainable circular economy of enterprises to be able to live as respected citizens... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Cyprus

Making food cheaper

Dude where is my tractor wrote: Uber for farming. We are creating a world where a farmer can get the work done on their field up to 1/3 cheaper and 10x faster by just clicking a button. No need to own expensive equipment and hire scarce talent. We make sure that the work gets done on time and in high quality by partnering up with the best service providers with most efficient equipment and professional operators and solving their machine utilisation problem. It's a trillion dollar business... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

CASP-Computer Assisted Super Pipeline

CASP-Computer Assisted Super Pipeline wrote: Casp- computer assisted super pipeline is a geothermal heat pump control system, making existing and new geothermal systems 25% more efficient. Our first to market product is unique as current technologies do not control the geothermal pipelines in the ground, they only act as an on / off system. Casp makes it possible to control, measure and optimize existing and new geothermal systems without causing a similar downturn in building performance as other energy investments (window replacement, insulation, etc. ). Our work is important as the 1... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Hungary

Surface water hydro kinetic turbine

MACLEC Technical Project Laboratory has developed a hydro kinetic turbine which is able to generate power in a low-velocity stream without blocking or creating any major disturbance in the flow of the water body. Being built to be installed radially over streams of water, the solution has little to no problem with debris/waste interrupting the power generation, even in areas with heavy debris build-up. For similar reasons the company states that it does not interrupt local aquatic life. The device is floating on the surface, thus being able to adjust to changing water level due to local weather.

India

Why use heating if we have the sun

Solar Pump wrote: At any time we ventilate, window opening we think a little when the cold comes in that is not good . If the solar pump passes through the fresh outside, preheated air, sunshine problem is solved!it's not just a preheat vent, but a solar powered heater. In this case the medium is gaseous - air. The air heated by the concentrated sunlight provides technical heat around the 200 ° c or at the desired temperature. It can provide solar energy for heating, industrial heat, which plays a major role in co2 emissions. What to burn on that day when it is boiling all day, rather than solar pump!hyperboloid light concentrator-heated cu core is passed through air through the heat. The copper core was patented black for better adsorption... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Hungary

Software portal for photo based geodata

GeoData DronPort wrote: We are offering geotagged data processing as service for presicion agriculture and environment monitoring. Our solution is a portal with posibility to combine different best tools and to make indexed datalayer comparisions - which are igiving you dada for right desicions even with estonian, swedish or uk landscape. As we do not have gigant fileds then our data processed with us/australia solutions will produce a lot of errors. And there is no farmers who would want to have sugestion to put more fertilyzers into road bordering with your field. But this will happens when using 10 and 30 m pixels for dataprocessing... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia