E³UDRES² Hackathon 2022

This challenge was submitted from Hungary via the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Challenge Owner: Medifood Ltd.

Global food systems face dual challenges of increasing food demand while competing for resources such as land, water, and energy. The global production of food is responsible for a third of all greenhosue gases emitted by human activity, with livestock farming for meat production causing twice the pollution of producing plant-based foods. Thus we have to significantly decrease carbon footprint of agri-food supply chains. One way is to develop new food products with high nutrition content, low production costs, and low environmental impact. Alternative protein sources seem to be a good solution for that.

Questions to solve for this challenge:

• How can a food product (range) with high nutrition content, low production costs, and low environmental impact be produced from alternative protein sources like lab-grown meat, plant-based proteins, edible insects or algae?

• Also consider the marketing and branding of the product, local (EU-regional) consumer needs, production and distributional opportunities

• Introduce your newly developed product range according to the Business Model Canvas
  

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This challenge was submitted from Belgium via UC Leuven-Limburg UAS.

Note: This challenge replaces the previously offered "Digitalisation of Healthcare" challenge.

Challenge Owner:  Book.care

Since a few months, Geriatro.com is a successful online marketplace for respite care in senior living in the West of Flanders (Belgium). It provides recovery stays after hospitalization or illness for elderly people and supports families/ caretakers in need of a break.  Soon after the launch, care providers outside of elderly care start asking if they could also offer their services on the Geriatro platform. Think of care facilities for people who are disabled, recovery resorts for people between 18 - 65 years old with for example a broken leg, meal care providers and so on.  

Geriatro as a brand is a great fit in all European languages, but limited to (post-hospitalization) elderly care.  

Questions to solve for this challenge:

• Re-think the book.care/Geriatro brand name & design - is there anything to be improved? Feel free to come up with your own brand strategy.  

• The URL book.care is ready as a backup - what could the design of this new brand and website look like?

• Which care offering would be useful to have for yourself or your loved ones on this platform? Which problems would you think are useful to solve (remote & digital) for your loved ones that need care?  
  (Respite care, home care, meal care, etc.) 

• How would the different user journeys look like, how could an omni-channel marketing lead generation experience for influencers be designed, and what could be the possible revenue models for this marketplace platform?  

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This challenge was submitted from Romania via Politehnica University Timisoara.

Challenge Owner: Nokia Romania | Timisoara

Digital Technologies and Advanced Manufacturing

"Lack of innovation transfer to support open and collaborative innovation processes and entrepreneurship"

There is still a critical mass of people that could benefit from enriching their innovation and entrepreneurship abilities - there are various financial resources and projects available, and they support partnership, networking, open and collaborative innovation, and knowledge transfer. There has been a huge increase of innovation activity at a country level according to the 2021 European Innovation Scoreboard, Romania having the status of Emergent Innovator.​

Questions to solve for this challenge:

• How to overcome the barriers in implementing accelerating actions of effective and efficient public private partnerships for innovation? ​

• How to foster Green training embodying the fundamental element for enhancing green innovation among public and private organizations and partnerships?​

• How to make functional a network of Digital Innovation Hubs?

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This challenge was submitted from Portugal via Politechnic Institute of Setúbal.

Challenge Owner: Project SPLIT

Project SPLIT intends to transfer to the market the knowledge developed by a team of researchers and clinicians. Focusing on the health condition that causes more disability in users, both in Portugal and in the world, low back pain, SPLIT is defined as an integrated, interdisciplinary care program informed by the best available evidence that allowed a reduction of 80% in the probability that users will develop persistent and disabling (chronic) low back pain compared to usual care provided in primary care.

Questions to solve for this challenge:

• Create an algorithm by a machine learning platform, which will enhance both the improvement of the results obtained and the loyalty of users to the solution and consequently to the organizations certified for it

• Development of a user-friendly interface that can enable users to engage with the platform in a simple and intuitive way

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This challenge was submitted from Austria via St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences.

Challenge Owner:  N'Cyan

Tourism is the main source of the economic income of most mountain valleys in Austria. These Austrian regions are mainly well known for their top-quality winter tourism opportunities, like skiing or hiking. However, also summer tourism is important for these regions. The pandemic has hit this specific industry very hard, creating the need to protect the local population from substraction. On top of that, climate change is starting to threaten the winter season. Austrian Alpine destinations need to re-think their strategies towards broader “touristic” offerings and all-year destinations.

Questions to solve for this challenge:

• How could a draft of an unique claim for an extended Smart & Sustainable tourism system look like?

• How could a concrete Super Sustainable & Innovative Alpine tourism proposal (including branding, marketing and staffing concept) addressing relevant aspects such as mobility, energy & waste management, and human resources look like?

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This challenge was submitted from Latvia via Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences.

Challenge Owner: Valmiera Development Agency

One problem in start-up culture is that when a good idea is born, there is not always a good plan for implementation, development to business. Even when the idea owner has done a good job creating a business model or even a detailed business plan, often things fail due to lack of team or dedication of team members. This problem could be solved with a long-term vision and different approaches at different start-up development stages.

Questions to solve for this challenge:

• How to reduce start-up failure rate in different stages: What support is required to increase start-up success rate?

• Develop a structured plan of pre-incubation - incubation - business support activities involving regional stakeholders

• Develop a simple action plan for testing and implementation of proposed ideas.