WE3 Connect

WEEEWO wrote: We3 connect is a unique digital platform that incentivizes users to dispose of their small electronic devices in an innovative way: while disposing of broken devices to electronic retailers, they earn points that allow them to access targeted offers and discounts. In this way, not only they save money but also they can actively contribute to climate change mitigation through provision of secondary raw materials. Furthermore, thanks to the footprint calculator, we3 connect will help to increase users awareness about the impact they make while recycling e-waste. At the same time, we identify the main electronic retailer chains as the key partners of we3 connect as they provide us with the infrastructures to collect small-sized e-waste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Italy

Semita Solaris

Semita Solaris wrote: A scientific team of ttü has developed a solar bricks solution where the pv element is encapsulated into polymer-glass composite. The solution enables to produce electric power, using the existing road surface without converting of natural landscapes and farmland. Produced and stored energy could be used for road electric infrastructure in combination with electric network or on autonomous mode without need for expensive wiring. Our aim is to enhance the market readiness level from the lab scale to ready-for-production prototypes... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Water Chakra

Water Chakra wrote: Water and fertilizers are crucial components to the socio-economic development of the nation and sanitation is the basic need. In the manufacturing process of fertilizers, phosphorous and potassium are non-renewable critical resources that are 80 to 100% imported by india. One resource that interlinks the water-nutrients nexus with the sanitation is human urine. Urine contains about 98% water and remaining are nutrients (n, p, k). About 22% of the global phosphorus demand can be achieved through the recovery of phosphorus from human waste. It’s time to ‘reinvent the toilet’... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Wireless electricity transmitter

The solution is based on energy expansion technology. It works through wireless electricity transmission which sends electromagnetic signals to pre-installed receivers. This can enable electricity access to areas otherwise hard to reach with the main grid and rely on fossil fuels to generate energy.

India

Carbon 0

Carbon 0 wrote: The game starts with meeting captain joy who helps you assess your carbon foot print. The questions are formed in positive ways for people to learn how their daily actions effect their foot print. Players challenge is to become carbon0!. After your assessment players get some recommendation. For example if they don't have solar panels in your house you'll be offered information on the location of recommended partners to purchase solar panels. Then players get recomendations about local plants based on your location and where you can get them and where you can plant them. Captain joy sends players to missions to plant the trees or take care of other peoples' trees at local community gardens... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

United States

Online fundraising platform

Pitchapitch wrote: Pitchapitch is an online crowdfunding and networking website, created specifically for cleantech projects, connecting innovative enthusiasts and investors/donators onone platform and providing professional business support... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

Solar Fruits

Solar Fruits wrote: At modern terra we mimic temperate climate and conditions by utilizing our plentiful sunlight and wind resources to grow crops that normally wouldn’t grow in the tropics. This will to help ensure food security of small island developing states in disaster prone regions. Modern terra’s implementation will also aid in reducing high food import bills and carbon emissions from shipping to remote sids. To guarantee the aforementioned, modern terra will also be an educational and equipment resource for local farmers to start their own modern farms... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Barbados

Off-grid agricultural harvest storage

A significant source of loss of income in the Indian food production sector is due to inadequate cold storage solutions. To solve this, MOISTORE has been developed. This solution is a decentralized off-grid and portable post-harvest cooling storage unit with an edible coating that decreases the respiration rate of the harvest. The closed chamber maintains the required moisture and temperature using a solar panel as a power source with a complementary battery for power stability. The power consumption of MOISTORE is approximately 1% compared to traditional cold storage units.

India

From Brownfield to Greenfield

CrazyApe wrote: We want to turn the dead and sandy soil of former brownfields into a living and fertile area with our solution. By covering the soil with mats of fiber around our prototype area, we will lay the foundation for a new, fertile soil. On the top of it, we will spread a fertile soil mixture cointaining terra preta. Having set up the two layers of mats and the fertile soil, we plant a crop which can be harvested up to three times per year. With the yield (the fiber part of the plant) we will create more mats, which we use to cover the soil of the brownfield again. In that way, we will create a natural co2-sink, which 1. ) takes up co2 from the environment and 2. ) fertilizes the ground and 3. ) creates jobs... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Cows of Steel

Cows of Steel wrote: How many of us drink cow milk ? most of us do. Cow milk consumption is expected to increase by 1. 5% per person each year in the five coming years. The problem is that cow milk production has huge environmental impacts. Cow milk production is responsible for 3% of all greenhouse gases emissions in the world! given that these emissions are mostly due to cows, we had the idea of producing milk without cows. . Milk is composed of sugars, nutrients and dairy proteins. Sugars and nutrients can be easily sourced, the challenge lies in producing the dairy proteins. For that, we will use state-of-the-art biotechnology that generates the exact same proteins that are present in cow milk, giving our synthetic milk the exact same taste... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Denmark