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Team name: PastEcho
University: TU/e
Challenge: Warm technology for people with Dementia
Challenge Collaborator: Expertise Center for Dementia & Technology

Summary of the project: PastEcho’s AI-powered solution offers personalized care for dementia patients, reduces caregivers’ administrative burden, and enhances patient engagement and monitoring. It addresses the lack of personalization and efficiency in existing solutions, benefiting elderly patients, caregivers, and healthcare systems.

Team name: Anomaly Pulse Masters
University: CTU
Challenge: Digital Ear – An automated anomaly detection in brewing machinery
Challenge Collaborator: Pilsner Urquell (Asahi)

Summary of the project: In Kozel’s brewery, control engineers traditionally use auditory skills to detect machine anomalies, but this method has limitations. To address these, the Anomaly Pulse Masters introduced YeastBeat, an affordable sound detection and monitoring solution that learns normal machine sounds and alerts to anomalies in real time. With 95% accuracy and a low false positive rate, YeastBeat simplifies monitoring, reduces costs, and ensures consistent product quality.

Team name: Circularity Hub
University: TUM
Challenge: Circularity Among Students
Challenge Collaborator: Alfa Guzmán Vargas

Summary of the project: Students in Munich’s dormitories often discard useful items at the end of each semester, causing waste. Circularity Hub addresses this by offering an offline marketplace with online services for buying and selling used items, promoting sustainability. Starting with a two-week pilot at the Olympic Village, the goal is to expand to other dormitories, fostering a sense of community and reducing waste.

Team name: Greyn
University: HEC Paris
Challenge: Make concrete Greyn again!
Challenge Collaborator: Students project

Summary of the project: 7% of concrete produced worldwide is wasted due to poor consistency. Greyn addresses this by using AI and data analysis to monitor and manage the concrete delivery cycle, combining on-board hardware in mixer trucks with a machine-learning algorithm to detect and correct consistency issues. This solution saves money, prevents waste, and reduces CO2 emissions.

Team name: Antscape
University: TalTech
Challenge: Make the most of every piece of urban greenery
Challenge Collaborator: Students project

Summary of the project: Antscape helps local governments and landscape designers efficiently plan and maintain green spaces using data integration and automation. This service reduces manual work, ensures compliance with nature restoration laws, and enhances biodiversity. It promotes urban biodiversity, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and improves environmental health, aligning with sustainable development goals.

Team name: MycelTex
University: DTU
Challenge: Sustainability in the fashion industry
Challenge Collaborator: Students

Summary of the project: The fashion industry has increased from two to 50-100 micro collections a year, making fast fashion one of the EU’s most environmentally harmful consumption areas. MycelTex addresses this by mixing mycelium with recycled garments to create affordable, biodegradable products, reducing textile waste. This initiative supports sustainable development goals related to responsible consumption, climate action, life below water, and poverty reduction.

Team name: ReButtufiers
University: École Polytechnique
Challenge: Enhanced and innovative approach to waste collection processes
Challenge Collaborator: Students

Summary of the project: ReButtify addresses cigarette and e-cigarette waste with innovative product design, including multi-compartment, weatherproof bins with a voting feature to engage users. They are developing a mobile app for real-time updates on bin statuses and environmental impact. Additionally, ReButtify plans to partner with educational institutions, governments, and marketing firms to enhance community involvement and promote waste management efforts.

Team name: SharpMind
University: EPFL
Challenge: Distraction by phones and loss of focus among students during lectures
Challenge Collaborator: PeaceTech Hackathon

Summary of the project: In universities, long lectures often lead students to get distracted and check their phones. ShartMind addresses this by hiding phones in plastic boxes under tables, providing gamified focus statistics through a campus app, and allowing teachers to monitor and adapt to students' attention levels in real-time. This approach helps maintain student focus and improve lecture engagement.

Team name: Bright Bytes
University: TU/e
Challenge: Unite with light
Challenge Collaborator: Team IGNITE

Summary of the project: International students at TU/e often struggle with adapting to a new culture and feeling isolated. Bright Bytes offers a platform with checklists, local tips, volunteer assistance, and social matchmaking to help them feel at home in Eindhoven. This resource aims to reduce stress, increase well-being, and improve retention rates, with plans to expand across the Netherlands and Europe.

Team name: SME Trace
University: TUM
Challenge: Design a 'Digital Product Passport' for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Challenge Collaborator: Beconex GmBH

Summary of the project: Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle with digital traceability due to limited resources and expertise. Our project introduces a ‘Digital Product Passport’ (DPP) to simplify access to product information, ensuring efficient and compliant documentation. SME Trace, a SaaS application, enables easy data input and generates DPPs and QR codes, promoting sustainable and transparent value chains without significant IT investments.

Team name: Bio-Tribo-Corrosion
University: TalTech
Challenge: Creation of setup for enabling bio-tribo-corrosion testing
Challenge Collaborator: Students

Summary of the project: This project aims to enhance the reliability, safety, and lifespan of biocompatible implants like hip and knee joints by developing a bio-tribo-corrosion test setup that simulates the human body’s environments. This setup addresses current testing limitations, reducing premature implant failures. It benefits patients, healthcare providers, and the environment by extending implant lifespans, reducing medical waste, and conserving resources, aligning with health and sustainability goals.

Team name: SenseWise
University: CTU
Challenge: Digital Ear – An automated anomaly detection in brewing machinery
Challenge Collaborator: Pilsner Urquell (Asahi)

Summary of the project: SensWise developed an IoT solution for Plzeňský Prazdroj, a Czech brewery part of the Asahi Group, to detect machine malfunctions through sound analysis. The system uses directional microphones and a central computer to process real-time audio signals, featuring Unsupervised Sound Analysis and Continuous Learning to identify and adapt to anomalies. Cost-effective and flexible, this solution can be applied in various industries, offering significant savings and efficiency improvements.

Team name: WeScreen
University: DTU
Challenge: Elevating Health and Ecology
Challenge Collaborator: Capital Region of Denmar

Summary of the project: Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, costing around €20 billion annually in healthcare. Anticancer drugs in wastewater harm freshwater organisms, and only two out of 16 EU screening programs meet the desired compliance rate. WeScreen aims to increase compliance with a user-centric redesign of the invitation and screening package, improving public health and reducing environmental impact.

Team name: Energonomia
University: École Polytechnique
Challenge: Tackling the challenges posed by carbon emission to make a positive impact towards climate change
Challenge Collaborator: Students

Summary of the project: Our consultancy service offers a holistic approach to reducing carbon emissions, benefiting employees, employers, and society. We enhance worker well-being with eco-friendly workspaces and help employers meet environmental standards cost-effectively, supporting sustainable urban development. Our strategy integrates ecological, economic, and social factors, aligning with the UN’s SDGs for a more sustainable future.

Team name: Helpie
University: EPFL
Challenge: Assisting cognitively impaired individuals in travelling independently and sereneyl
Challenge Collaborator: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS), HackaHealth

Summary of the project: Our project helps people with cognitive impairments travel independently, enhancing their confidence and reducing social isolation. Helpie, our app, focuses on simplicity and minimal stimuli, providing step-by-step guidance and easy ticketing to support users through their journey. Designed to be intuitive and customizable, Helpie ensures accessibility and integration with diverse public transportation systems, and is open source for broad accessibility.

Team name: ChooChooCheap
University: TU/e
Challenge: Breaking international barriers for rail transport
Challenge Collaborator: Hybrid Maglev Railways

Summary of the project: Students often choose planes and cars over trains due to the difficulty of finding affordable train tickets within Europe. ChooChooCheap addresses this by offering a platform that displays the cheapest available train tickets to European destinations based on a map search. This solution benefits train operators, students, and travelers, promoting sustainable travel and contributing to the 11th SDG: sustainable cities and communities.

Team name: Visionary
University: CTU
Challenge: Automatic data creation from written and audio sources IIChallenge Collaborator: Ororo

Summary of the project: Librarians face significant manual work, including data entry from book covers and title pages. To address this, our team developed a modular system using OCR and GPT for character and text recognition, significantly reducing manual data entry costs and streamlining bibliographic metadata creation. Designed as a web application, it ensures easy integration, accessibility, and usability, saving librarians considerable time and resources.