Many Congratulations to the City of Lund for hosting a wonderful event. The two worthy winners joining us in Stockholm are:
Ekobalans Fenix AB
Plagazi AB
City Conversity AB
www.conversity.eu
Business idea
To establish, manage and cultivate a cosmopolitan virtual academy for societal entrepreneurship. A business model called Enterprise-III has been developed to fit the concept in which a triple bottomline will show performance for People, Profit and Planet of proposed societal enterprises. The current development is supported by EU Lifelong Learning programme and Microsoft by their BizSpark programme. The business operations are driven by challenges that trigger collaboration among those engaged in the community to find solutions. The student organization AIESEC is an established partner for "Living Lab"-oriented and end-user-driven construction of solutions
Impact on sustainability
Conversity of Busyland and its local, regional and national installations (according to a franchise model) will increase ordinary citizens future readiness, their civic courage and social inclusion in the cocreation of the next version of our civilization on planet Earth on both the global and the local level.
Plagazi AB
www.plagazi.com
Business idea
Turn-Key onsite hydrogen production from your own waste! Plagazi offers a pioneering method for changing waste into hydrogen. The company name stems from the concept “plasma gasification”. In simple terms the technique is to expose the waste to such high temperatures that it becomes gasified and separated into molecules. The system is entirely closed and gives off no environmentally hazardous waste products. Waste can be transformed into hydrogen, or into methanol and raw material for diesel production.
Don’t waste the waste.
Eco Retreading Systems International AB
Business idea
Implementing a new Swedish technology Eco Retreading System (ERS) for retreading tires on a world market of 8 billion Euros.
The technology is tested earlier but need a renewed test in industrial size for certification automation.
Further documentation is available by request. Investement needs for 3-5 years development is 3 - 5 - 20 million SEK.
Impact on sustainability
ERS retreading method reduces process time from 230 minutes to only 30 minutes.
The energy usage is reduced dramatically 80%, as well as the black pollution of substances and harmful gases are reduced with 80%.
Workers health, local and global positive impact on environment is immense.
Ekobalans Fenix AB
www.ekobalans.se
Business idea
We offer complete solutions for the handling of rest products such as biogas digestates, sewage sludge, and ashes and refinement of these into high quality fertilizers and fertilizer concepts for agriculture, forestry and gardening. Thus we solve two problems at once: we recycle nutrients and we take care of rest products in a sustainable way. In our process we separate nutrients from environmentally harmful substances such as heavy metals, pathogens, medication rests, hormones, etc., and we use the organic fraction for energy production. We are unique in at least four ways: 1. We take care of the entire rest product problem, not just fractions. 2. Our business model: we finance, own and operate the facility for rest product handling at no or minimal investment cost fo the rest product producer. 3. Our starting point in process design is fertilizer customer demand. 4. Our competence mix: engineers and plant ecologists.
Impact on sustainability
The impact on sustainability is large. We use no limited resources and a fraction of the energy needed for the mining and production of standard artificial fertilizers. Our carbon footprint is minimal compared to artificial fertilizers. Sludge centrifugation, with or without incineration, is much less energy efficient.
Green Furniture Sweden AB
www.greenfurniture.se
Business idea
Ekodesignfurnitures
Impact on sustainability
Healthy and good recyclable concept for furniture’s by using qualitative materials, small packaging and free of artificial chemicals with a great design. Green Furniture Sweden provides a more sustainable, visual, affective design and with great quality products.
SignPay AB
www.signpay.se
Business idea
SignPay means “Signatures & Payments”. We are a company which offers mobile solutions for Signatures, Payments and Login based on mobile e-ID.
Secure, Easy, Convenient, Smart.
We are combining high security with easy usage for the customer: By using the mobile phone security tokens and scratch cards are not needed anymore.
SignPay has two business areas;
Consulting in the area of mobile e-ID
Offer services built upon the upcoming infrastructure of mobile e-ID
Our customers are Operators, Banks, Enterprises, Authorities and Telecom Suppliers who wants to use or offer legally binding electronic signatures based on the WPKI technology.
Glimworks AB
www.glimworks.com
Business idea
We are in the information age – well on our way to an age of information overload. We are all desperately in need of peace of mind. If the information age was all about sending and creating information, the next age needs to be about receiving and perceiving information. The next age needs to be centered around representing and presenting information in the way each human needs and would like to to have it. Its all about the user-device interaction. Together we can enable a world that includes all of humankind in the usage of the devices of society – even those of us that today are restricted, limited or without possibility to use the "one user interface and information format fits everyone" of today. An age of perception is needed, where our individual attention span and needs are truly recognized. The movement so far has 20+ working followers.
Impact on sustainability
This idea make it possible to shift consumption society from physical goods to what is inside, that is the information that built up the user-device surface and interaction. Separation of the device from its information. A distribution model/technology for information with focus on building the user interface interaction YOU need.
CrossBorder Technologies AB
www.xborder.eu
Business idea
Cross Border Technologies pallet systems are made of steel and aluminum and challenge conventional wooden pallets. The so-called Turbo pallets are very light and empty, they are stackable, saving two-thirds of the space. Pallets are completely recyclable, and with its light weight, they have an environmental benefit with lower CO2 emissions during transport.
Impact on sustainability
It is a less voluminous pallet with a long service life and lower weight than what is on the market today.
