Bicycle-based delivery solution

We produce electrically assisted cargo vehicles for climate friendly last mile deliveries. argo bikes are superior to trucks and delivery cars in cities, in terms of environmental impact, physical footprint and personal safety. Cargo bikes weigh less, occupy less space in the street and allow better eyes-'n-ears driver interaction in traffic. Riding on bike lanes and shortcuts increases safety and gives door-to-door speed matching other vehicles in the city. The CO2 footprint savings exceed 1 kg per 10 kilometers compared to combustion engine vehicles. The energy consumption is less than 10% compared to other electric vehicles.

Sweden

StarkTek

StarkTek wrote: We develop water quality monitoring platform aimed towards delivering in depth water quality data and analytics for our customers. Using iot and lorawan, our solution can deliver real time pollution data which combined with our ai powered analytic tools and algorithms makes identifying pollutant source, severity index and predictive hot-spots much easier. We are on a mission to clean up every polluted water body on earth... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Germany

Stay Cool

Stay Cool wrote: Stay cool is a climate service connected to an app that will help municipalities to communicate and accelerate the response to extreme weather events, in particular heat waves. Using climate and geographical data from copernicus europe's eyes on earth, along with other urban data sources and users’ feedback,. The service will map and communicate the nearest "cool places" (such as parks, museums, or cultural activities in open and indoor spaces, etc. ) as well as the level of accessibility (public, for free, for a fee) to all users, to find "refuge" during the occurrence of a heat wave and, in general, it will display the most “cool” areas (culturally and climatically) of the city... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Italy

Steps

Steps wrote: Steps is an application with a social and economic impact that motivates people to walk and use alternative transport. Our mission is to create a huge community of “steppers” to reduce significantly the impact of co2 emissions caused by individual cars. We would do this by giving our users rewards based on the amount of walked steps or on kilometers traveled in sustainable transport that they do. Those rewards would come from our partners, that will be sustainable local commerces, and we aim to promote them through our application... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Brazil

STEPS - an urban mobility application

STEPS - value your steps wrote: Steps - value your steps. The creation of this application happened for the reason of solving problems in urban mobility. It basically consists of the idea of ​​an incentive for citizens to use public transport, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate their own economy, as well as the local economy. To do this, we created an application that can transform walking, cycling, bus riding and scooter into a local economy, where the beneficiaries would be the users of the application themselves and also the sponsors of it... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Brazil

Digital rewards platform

Stonnivation wrote: Tourism’s global carbon footprint has increased from 3. 9 to 4. 5 gtco2e, four times more than previously estimated, accounting for about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. . This significant rise is due to the quantification of the significant contribution from local transport, shopping and food during their visit. This issue is compounded by day trippers and locals doing similar activities. . Our initial focus is on promoting outdoor tourism in remote and rural locations and rewarding tourism businesses and locals and visitors to make healthier and more environmentally friendly choices. We will re-invest in remote and rural communities to develop infrastructure and resources that support healthy sustainable rural development... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

United Kingdom

StoreConnect

StoreConnect wrote: Denmark being the country with one of the highest shares of fluctuating wind energy in the world, it is a predestined role model for the aimed further development around the world. This leading role makes it a unique test centre for energy storage solutions, where we saw the need for a solution, which was fast to implement to overcome today's already existing problems. The underlying basis for our proposal is an existing solution, which uses kinetic energy to store the produced electricity as potential energy. This is done with concrete blocks which are lifted by a six-armed crane, with an intelligent control system to manage its movements, and therefore without the need for height differences in the terrain... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Denmark

Strawy

Strawy wrote: An average pet clinic has high maintance costs of their plastic bowls. Today we can save up to 80 % of their costs. We are producing short time usable pet food bowls out of wheat straw. Our clients will win with our product more healthier and cleaner work environment. But most importantly we help to save their staff time and money! our product is made 100% out of estonian biodegradeable materials. We created a liquid proof product, which is suitable to fill with all types of pet food... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Stronger concrete with less cement

Cement production accounts for 6–8 % of global CO₂ emissions. Thus, changing the way concrete is produced is very important in abating climate change. Strongcrete technology better controls the concrete casting process and gives the concrete an improved compaction, making it possible to reduce the cement in the concrete mix by 20% and at the same time improve the quality of the concrete. The innovation also includes a remotely controlled robot that travels over the surface of the soft concrete, which delivers a stronger, flatter and tighter concrete surface thereby reducing very common problems like surface cracks as well as enables better bonding.

Sweden

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Perovskite solar cells

Perovskite solar cells are developed by the University of Warsaw and represent a new class of photovoltaic devices. Their efficiency has reached 24 percent within 8 years of development, which is comparable with silicon solar panels that hav been developed for decades. Estimates say that this generation of solar cells will be significantly cheaper than panels currently available on the market. This is due to low temperature fabrication processing, simple manufacturing and cheap components. Furthermore, there is a possibility to make flexible devices which opens a brand-new application of solar panels.

Poland

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