Harvesting heat from cities

Heat Harvest addresses the need for cooling in urban hot spots. The standard solution is to install air conditioning units and blow the hot air outside. This solution is not is suitable in densely populated city areas. Thus, other technical solutions are sought. Heat Harvest intends to cool pavements and building walls which are directly exposed to sunlight with water cooling lines which are directly enclosed in concrete, asphalt etc. which therefore have extremely low maintenance needs.

Austria

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Automatically created transport solutions for events

Existing transport infrastructure often reaches its capacity limits at events, for example, which is why alternative solutions are required at short notice. Triply offers a possibility to estimate the arrival routes of the visitors in advance and to provide alternative mobility solutions for the transport. Finding stops and routing are optimized by an underlying triply algorithm, which saves money and valuable time. Triply offers a possibility to clearly display the coverage of public transport systems and to visualize the effects of changes on the accessibility. The interactive map can be used as a basis for planning or for external communication.

Austria

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Virtual assistance for planning climate-friendly trips

The main goal of AiM is to reduce business trips by providing companies with a superefficient virtual assistant and more relevant information, so they would be aware of how much money, time and CO2 emissions they could save when avoiding or optimizing their meeting-trips. By using AI/machine learning, the virtual assistant becomes more and more accurate over time, knowing exactly what works best for each user, always with the sustainability criteria in mind. Business flights can either be replaced by train trips or online video meeting solutions such as Skype depending, among other factors, on the distance between the meeting participants.

Austria

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Guidance for apartment seekers to minimize travel

HomeWay provides software that helps people that are looking for a new home to move closer to public transport stations and to reduce their commuting time. The innovation matches several parameters of users such as budget, daily activities and other specific requirements that can be customized to generate an optimized housing location. By using HomeWay, a home with shorter commuting distances or reduced need of a privately-owned car can easily be chosen. This would reduce emissions from urban transports and simplify urban planning and expansion of urban areas which could further reduce emissions created by mobility demands.

Austria

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CO2 Calculator

CO2 Calculator wrote: Briefly summarized: we have looked at how we can make this mindset more visible to the public while reducing the upcoming problem of introducing the co2 tax to the citizen. Our idea is an app and an associated power / energy / co2 meter for the household. The app uses existing databases (miles & more, db card, paypack, health app), that mean those that already track our behavior. Via the app, the user receives specific offers from our partner companies / institutions (engineering companies, bmu, transport companies) on how to reduce their co2 consumption and thus also save taxes. So an intelligent system, which follows the everyday life of a person and always shows the potential for improvement... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

The G.R.E.E.N. Kids Challenge

ClimaTech wrote: The g. R. E. E. N. Kids challenge educates pupils in topics concerning climate change and the impact of one’s own lifestyle on climate change. It animates children and their parents to take climate actions in their everyday life by showing simple solutions and more sustainable alternatives to traditional approaches. Children can participate in the challenge together with their classmates. Teachers use the provided information material to explain the challenges and their impact on climate change at school. For each challenge material with background information and further reading is provided. Pupils complete the challenges by uploading a photo to the app. The completed challenge needs to be approved by their teachers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Hands On Climate - Make Your Decision

Climate Choice wrote: Our proposal is to elaborate a collection ofstriking and especially self-centered workshop situations. This package can be used by educational institutions, climate aware parents or ngos. Here are three examples to effectively raise awareness for the most important challenges presented by climate change: breakfast: style of diet, packaging, production conditions. Way to school: means of transport. School: saving energy, saving water, waste separation. Leisure time: shopping, fashion, production conditions. Grocery shopping: food items, seasonality, regionality. Night time routine: hygiene products, microplastic, save energy/water... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Smart Competer

Dundees wrote: Smart meters are the future and can play a central role in controlling the ever-increasing power consumption. However, they also present us with some problems. For many, electricity consumption is an abstract concept. With our "smart compete" solution, we offer a visualized and gamified solution in which users are offered both an incentive and an alternative value with the help of competition and complementary currency... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

App for reduction of single use plastic

Club EcoSmart wrote: We will start with contacting the bigger market chains in the country and markets. The intended start is having one item of one product that is offered in bulk sale. The customer will take a standard container provided (sold) by the store, take the desired amount. Then, the cashier will weigh the product and renerate a qr code which the customer will scan and save on his phone... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria

Zero plastic waste in Zpw application

RE-FUTURE wrote: 1. The zpw application connects the government,customers,plastic production and recycling companies（plastic trash machine） and markets into a closed plastic recycling system that can achieve zero plastic waste in city. 2. The government helps plastic production and recycling companies establish closed plastic recycling systems and make policies. Government and plastic production and recycling companies put plastic trash machine in various areas of the city. The main function of this plastic trash machine is scoring for the users who collect the plastic waste (maybe 10g per point). Users can log on his application to get the points when the input the plastic waste into plastic trash machine. 3... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Austria