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| City: | Munich |
| Challenge Title: | Open Innovation Call for Co-creation Waste avoidance at Munich’s schools |
| Challenge Owner: | City of Munich |
| Challenge Website: | Challenge webpage |
| Challenge Award: | The most convincing solutions will win the innovation award and will be further developed and tested in practice in collaboration with Munich’s city administration and UnternehmerTUM (the Center for Innovation and Business Creation at TUM). |
| Other Awards: | The challenge consists of two phases: the competition phase and the implementation phase. The idea that is judged to have the greatest potential for implementation will win the innovation award. Furthermore, prize winners will have the chance to implement the concept they submitted within a municipal test field, develop it further and test it in practice. UnternehmerTUM, the Center for Innovation and Business Creation at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), will provide support and coaching, walking prize winners through the incubation program XPRENEURS. The participants who submit the best solution concepts for each challenge will be invited to present their idea to the jury. All finalists will receive a EUR 500 bonus. The jury will then select the most promising solution in each category. At an evening ceremony on Thursday, July 18, 2019, Mayor Pretzl will present these entries with the innovation award. Once the implementation phase has been completed, the winners will receive additional prize money of EUR 1,500. The competition ends with a closing event in December, where the winning projects will present their results from the test field. |
| Theme / Sector: | Waste Management, Sustainable Cities, Smart Cities |
| Challenge Blurb: | How can we increase awareness of and motivation to participate in the topics of waste avoidance and waste separation at Munich’s schools ? |
| Challenge Description: | Waste avoidance at Munich’s schools that features fun elements, but should also raise awareness of waste avoidance and waste separation among schoolchildren and the entire school community, as well as creating incentives to take action. Digital and/or analogue means can be used. |
| Open for Submissions: | Yes |
| Deadline for Submissions: | May 19, 2019 |
| Finalist Announcement: | To be announced |
| Winner Announcement: | July 18, 2019 |
| Who Can Apply: | Entrepreneurs, SMV’s, Start-Ups and even Students, who’d like to test their ideas in a municipal field. |
| Registration Details: | Access Cities in Munich will be happy to help applicants registrate their project on the German speaking homepage https://bit.ly/2v2r2ww |
For application assistance: The Confederation of Danish Industry (DI)
