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Three Kassel teams in the race for best start-up idea at universities - Vote now
Image: HydroNeo24 ideas are up for election this year, ranging from a management system for aquacultures to quantum computer-secure encryption technology. The best teams will receive prize money totaling more than 10,000 euros and - even more important - idealistic support. Until September 18, everyone has the opportunity to evaluate the ideas online. This vote will be taken into account alongside the verdict of a panel of experts before a jury with representatives from business and science decides on the winners on November 9, 2017.
The winners will be presented at the Museum für Kommunikation in Frankfurt on the evening of the jury meeting. In January 2018, the results will also be presented to a national audience at Deutsche Bank's Quartier Zukunft in Berlin and to investors at the Pitchclub Frankfurt on Feb. 21. Last year, the Variokan team from Giessen won with a novel channel system.
The University of Kassel, which is coordinating the competition, has also entered three of its ideas, known from the UNIKAT start-up consultation and the UNIKAT ideas competition. The teams are HydroNeo - an intelligent management system for aquacultures -, SplitPay - a payment method for groups - and sunu - an IT solution for solidarity-based agriculture.
The competition is being held for the second time. It brings together Hessen's universities in a network and aims to strengthen entrepreneurial and scientific creativity, anchor the idea of start-ups in the universities and present Hessen as a high-performance location for science and business. "An evaluation as well as research among our partners have shown us that our concept is working," says Jörg Froharth, coordinator of the statewide competition. He points to the verdict of founders, jurors, investors and universities, whose detailed opinions can be read on the Hessen Ideen website.
Voting: www.hessen-ideen.de/ideen
Photo (Photo: HydroNeo) at: www.uni-kassel.de/uni/fileadmin/datas/uni/presse/anhaenge/2017/hydroneo.jpg
Contact:
Annika Wallbach
University of Kassel
UniKasselTransfer Incubator
Tel.: +49 561 804-7252
E-mail: wallbach[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
Miriam Cartheret
University Kassel
UniKasselTransfer Incubator
Tel: +49 561 804 2310
Email: c artheret@uni-kassel.de
Background information:
The Kassel teams:
The founding team HydroNeo is developing a management system for aquaculture. This is intended to monitor and control water quality, energy consumption and feed use. Similar to a smart home system, devices and machines of an existing aquaculture infrastructure are extended and interconnected by smart components.
Antes Dogan 's SplitPay idea develops a digital platform that makes joint payment easy. Joint payment is enabled by two features: with a digital joint account, groups can cover recurring group costs, such as rent, energy costs or internet. For one-time group payments, such as vacations, events or gift groups, the digital group credit card is designed. By simply creating a transaction group, no one has to front money anymore.
The sunu team bundles the requirements of Solawis (Solidarity Agriculture) in an open source web application. This simplifies and structures administration, logistics and communication, minimizes error-proneness as well as the time-consuming data entry into different systems. This helps already established and newly emerging solawis to spend more time on activities in the field or in and for the community.