Solar R-nrg Ring project

Ricerca & Rinnovabili srl wrote: Ricerca & rinnovabili started the development of solar r-nrg ring, an innovative, patented pv panel. The sola r-nrg ring will be compact, powerful and it will be the first pv panel in the world that will produce an amount of energy also during the night. Our solution will fit in every sector in which there is no available space to produce energy... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

BioCircle-tech

BioCircle-tech wrote: We are producing a novel and natural spent coffee-based bio product, easily applied as a supplement for improved performances of animal feeds. Spent coffee grounds are residues that left behind in a quantities measurable in millions of tons, that mostly end up in landfill. We collect them and process within green technology, based on a unique combination of enzymatic and bacterial fermentation activity. The resulting product is enriched with physiologically essential compounds and exempted of anti-nutrients. It is several-fold health beneficial, being mainly intended for ruminants and highly recommended in lactating cows diet for improving the milk quality and reducing the risks of mastitis infections... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Serbia

ReFunghi

ReFunghi wrote: Refunghi is a city lab and community project in the field of sustainable product design and urban food production. It wants to bring together people with different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. To fight the global climate crisis, we need to change urban life substantially. With refunghi we want to focus on mushrooms which can not only be used as a sustainable source of proteins but also for ecofriendly materials like alternatives for plastics or vegan leather. Mushrooms can be grown under urban conditions and on supposed waste like coffee grounds, which is another benefit for a more efficient use of our limited resources... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

SocialFeedia is an AI engine for farmers

SocialFeedia wrote: Socialfeedia is a ai engine for farmers so they can replaces intuitive decisions with fact-based ones, resulting in optimising the use of resources to produce and deliver the food consumers wants... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Ireland

Mobile contaminated soil cleaning device

Biovala wrote: Our vision is to create container size, 30 cub. M. Capacity, mobile bioreactor (contaminated soil cleaning device). At the moment we have small scale lab prototype. So how it works?. We excavate contaminated soil and load it to the reactor, which can be brought in site by truck. Soil is held under circum conditions in the reactor with specialy selected bacterial strains. After 2-4 weeks soil is cleaned and can be brought back, from where it was taken... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Lithuania

BikeBuddy

Attractive Cyclists wrote: We gathered extensive geographical data from the openstreetmap, including the positions of street lights and tram tracks in the city of heidelberg. Using the openrouteservice, we generated various routes within heidelberg and analysed their properties with regard to these features. As a proof of concept, we implemented an application that can generate three routes between two points: the shortest one, the one with the highest proportion of illumination, and the one with the smallest intersection with the tram tracks. As a motivational gimmick, the amount of co2 saved by not using an (average) car for this distance is displayed... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany

Eco-clean toothbrush

Effa wrote: Effa is a disposable toothbrush made of recycled paper and all other elements are made of eco-clean materials that do no harm to nature. It is easy to use, cheap and stylish. The brush would be great for those who travel a lot, without doing any harm to nature. The idea is simple and brilliant itself... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Ukraine

ReUse Rethink ReStore

NTNU ReStore wrote: Ntnu restore is an organisation which evolved from a strong wish to reduce waste among students in trondheim and directly affect the co2 emissions. We are a team working on minimising waste by making it easier for students to give and get reused household goods. We are aiming at keeping useful stuff out of the bin by bridging the gap between incoming and outgoing students... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Norway

Active magnetic bearings for electrical machines

Around 40% of the electricity worldwide is consumed by rotating electrical machines. However, most of the electrical machines are not working at the optimum point from a process efficiency perspective. SpinDrive's solution claims to lower the customer's lifecycle costs by 35%. The company provides design and prototyping of high-speed electrical drivetrains and serial production of active magnetic bearings. SpinDrive’s solution claims to lower the drivetrain losses by half. They further claim that, for the 500-kW unit operating 8000 hours per year, their solution enables 2-year payback time.

Finland

Climactiv - be active.

Climactiv - be active. wrote: Let us imagine ashanti. She wants to engage in climate action but finds it difficult to find the right way to do this. But we have the solution, by offering our holistic sustainability approach “climactiv” to ashantis employer, in our example sap (this could also be a city, university or a country). The sample sap was chosen because of their high engagement on sustainable growth of the region. This allows ashanti to collect climate points throughout her day, which she does by coming to work by bike, having a vegetarian lunch and participating in the tree planting challenge in the evening. Additionally, she can enter new challenges for other employers, which can be rated by her colleagues... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Germany