Eco-Friendly Water Retention Natural Polymer

Eco-Friendly Water Retention Natural Polymer wrote: We are trying to solving the major problem of the agriculture sector as well as the waste management problem. To solve these problems, we designed a natural water-absorbent polymer by using biodegradable waste that can absorb the 150 times of the water than its own weight and can hold absorbed water for a long period of time to maintain the moisture level with the soil. Our designed product is pollution-free, organic in nature, and biodegradable too so it helps improve the soil in an organic way and it will degrade in the soil after 6 months... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Portable smart electric cycle

Providing sustainable urban mobillity with a foldable,electric bicycle that has a low fuel consumption.

India

Air Quality measurement with BigData

Draken Technology Transfer Association wrote: Our solution is a remote measurement device which can be installed on public transportation vehicles, and could make measurements in pm2. 5 and pm10 with an 5 seconds of maximum sampling rate. The data consits more environmental data such as the exact gps position of the measurement, temperature, humidity, etc. The large amount of data could be determined by time and geographical position, so the past and present data could be monitored, pollutant sources could be tracked. The large amount of data and the different data sources can lead to a correlation understanding between different parameters (dewpoint, temperature, etc. ). The prototype have a particulate matter sensor, a gps module and a gprs mobile radio... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Hungary

Microbial clean-up of eutrophic waters

EIDYA wrote: Eidya provides the aquaculture sector with the first comprehensive, microbial nature-based solution to remove excess nutrients from the water environment. These deteriorate health status of the farmed organisms and are also responsible for harmful algal blooms, which can kill off entire aquacultures. The cost of profit and jobs loss, ecosystem reclamation, decline in turism, recreational activities and ecosystem services usually counts in millions. Eidya prevents that. What's more, people consume more farmed than caught aquatic organisms, a trend which is expected to grow as the world's population increases. Hence, aquacultures worldwide will keep using more feed resources... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Slovenia

Urban Cooling Solutions

Urban Cooling Solutions wrote: Urban cooling solutions aims to help municipalities adapt to extreme heat events, whose frequency and intensity are increasing due to climate change. . Ucs offers comprehensive services on the topic of urban cooling. These include helping cities define their urban cooling strategy and priorities, assistance in designing cool public spaces and measuring the cooling performance of public space renovation projects. . Ucs' expertise is based on years of field experience acquired from scientific research on the topic of urban cooling... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

France

Smart building data monitoring and analysis

A platform combining proprietary hardware and algorithms providing actionable insights for efficiency improvements in commercial buildings.

India

Support for making knowledge about air pollution

Let us know more about air pollution of Nyíregyháza wrote: Our group has created a new plan and a possible process system to support independent, especially young high school and university students, researchers as well as civil persons who would like to do something for environmental protection (for example in the topic of air pollution). The support system would be in connection with the local companies and authrities. The local authorities are willing to make a possible fund for support local proposals. The applicants may get in touch the competent persons. This possible support system is consisted of the following subsequent steps: creating the idea. Submit the plan to the platform. Analyzing opportunities by the competent authorities (possible need of financial or equipment support)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Hungary

Biodegradable edible plastic from milk

Milkywaste-zero waste wrote: We can see a lot of alarming facts and figures about our planet slowly drowning in plastic waste. But at milkywaste we also noticed decreasing prices of bovine milk in europe on one hand and increased production of powdered milk on the other hand. This can cause eu farmers to lose their jobs and for all of us to lose our beloved planet. That is why we found an environmentally friendly way to use casein from milk to produce biodegradable and even edible plastic and coating for needs in the packaging industry. By using our products, you are prolonging the expiration date and quality of your products. Thereby increasing the shelf life and reducing waste and cost of waste transfer... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Slovenia

Build aqua drones that maintain waterways

Kayal Technologies wrote: Urban waterways in developing countries tend to be heavily polluted and urban poor live close to that. Keeping urban waterways clean is essential for healthy cities and also preventing ocean plastic pollution. However, the current global methods for waterway maintenance are labour intensive, inefficient and don't scale. We’re automating waterway maintenance with ai and drone technology. We are building all-electric aquadrones that collect floating debris and remove weed using computer vision. They also function as mobile data acquisition platforms, tracking waste aggregation trends while recording water and air quality data. We cut down the operational costs of waterway cleaning by up to 90 percent... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Sri Lanka

Thermoelectric static power generator

Supplying off-grid locations with power using a heat to electricity (thermoelectric) generator. Claims to increase efficiency from 4 % (existing products) to 8 %, reduce cost by 40 % (based on comparison between India and Canada), and reduce materials needed for similar applications.

India