Tag: SEUA17 Poland

Country: Bulgary

Category: Climate

Project Aim: The water crisis affects 2/3 of the population on earth. Increasing number of countries are searching for solutions with which they can reduce the use of water sources. Researches from 2016 show that the global water crisis affects every continent and over 2.8 billion people around the world at least one month out of every calendar year. Through the efficient usage of the available water sources, this problem can be avoided or at least reduced to a minimum level.

Our team believes that with small steps we can help with the water crisis globally. Reducing the amount of water used daily in households, public buildings and businesses can help on a local level, mastering a global problem.

What does Rivus do?

Rivus is on a mission to optimize the usage of water in every household in order to achieve global impact through water preservation. We are developing a water saving tap nozzle and a shower head that reduces the water usage with up to 90%. The Rivus Nozzle S1 comes with one stream option which uses 90% less of your tap water which equals 1.2 liters per minute. Rivus Nozzle S2 has a second stream which flow is 5 liters per minute. We have superior advantages compared to our competitors – our nozzle is saving up to 60% more. We provide a better stream – a spiral cone which distributes the water more efficiently with an absence of a side splash. The materials used in our hardwares are ceramic and brass which help for a longer lifespan of the faucets.

What’s Rivus’ future?

With working prototypes and patent documents filled in, we are currently focused on further developing our business model and creating a crowdfunding campaign. We are on popularizing our product and the mission behind it mainly in Bulgaria but we are planning to expand in Europe and other regions suffering from water deficiency in the world. We are working on strategies how to obtain access on different markets like California, Middle East, Australia and India which are already seeking solutions for the water crisis.

Country: Poland

Category: Creative

Project Aim: Packhelp has been launched in 2016. The idea to start a packaging company has been born due to a very simple reason. We believed that many companies underestimated the real importance of packaging in their business conduct.

It is a great marketing channel, which provided a 100% reach to customers. It allows to convey the message of the brand and philosophy of the company. It also provides product exposure and makes up for a great part of brand awareness.

Furthermore, we saw that the packaging industry before didn’t meet the requirements of many customers. Smaller companies could feel discriminated, as packaging was mostly targeting big partners. Not every business needs thousands of boxes – we understood that beginnings can be much smaller.

What does Packhelp do?

Starting from that point, we believed that there is space for a packaging company that would provide a new quality of service. We decided to change the image of a packaging company by three elements of our competitive advantage:

Shortening production time. Whilst most of companies offered a long production time, we decided to channel efforts to provide a service starting from 14 days of production time. It was a revolutionary idea.

Set a new standard for a minimum order – 30 pieces. Usually, packaging companies forced clients to order big batches of boxes. We wanted to change that image too.

Creating a box should be fun and easy. That is why we developed an online box editor, which allows to create a box without any special graphic skills.

Our box editor is a tool that allows the user to create a box by either uploading a design or starting from scratch with online tools. We have also prepared an app for AR visualisation, which offers a view of the designed box. It is the technological enhancement that ensures our clients that their product is crafted to their needs.

What is Packhelp’s future?

Currently, Packhelp is a company that has localised its offer for seven languages in total – Polish, English, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Czech. We have expanded our offer of packaging products and have many plans for further European expansion in 2018.

Finally, Packhelp offers cardboard boxes, because we carry about the environment. The popularity of plastic packaging is fortunately behind us and more eco-friendly solutions are becoming the trend nowadays. That’s why cardboard used by Packhelp is made of recycled materials.

We believe, that Packhelp proves business diversification is important in all European industries. Packaging industry was not delivering a product suited for all customers – we aim at resolving that problem. At the same time, we believe that ideas like ours can really influence changes in the industry.

Country: Poland

Category: Water

Project Aim: We have invented and built a durable, multifunctional and water-conserving portable bathroom. Our device – HandyShower – can function as a faucet, a shower, as well as a washlet (a bidet). It’s like a Swiss knife, only it’s a bathroom.

HandyShower  is equipped with a patented self-closing valve that facilitates water conservation in a way no other device on the market can.

The main idea behind HandyShower is to allow access to basic water hygiene everywhere and for everyone. Over 600 million people do not have access to running water; among them are people who live in areas that have been affected by a blackout or a natural disaster, victims of wars and citizens of developing countries. We also want to provide an all-in-one portable sanitary system to adventurers out there: outdoor enthusiasts, offroaders, mountain climbers, sailors, bikers, surfers, pilgrims etc.

What does HandyShower do?

Currently there is no other 3-in-1 personal hygiene device that is equipped with a self-closing valve. We already have an existing product and have conducted a succesful crowdfunding campaign in Poland. We have managed to gather a community of testers that help us improve the device. We have secured our IP in Europe, US, Australia, India, China, Taiwan, Japan and India.

What’s the HandyShower’s future?

We’re preparing for a Kickstarter campaign launch in May 2018 with our new improved HandyShower v.1.5.

Country: Poland

Category: Energy

Project Aim: Ogarniamprad.pl is the first social energy trading platform for collective energy purchasing and switching. It allows smaller customers execute bulk-buying power and shop around for the best energy deals in real time and switch to the most attractive retailers. Easy, reliable and profitable as it has never been before. In academic-industry collaboration we develop online and offline strategies to raise awareness of affordable solutions for smog and CO2 emission reduction in Poland and Europe.

This Award is very important for me as a CEO of Ogarniamprad.pl as it puts energy customer engagement, that we mainly deal with, in a right place, as a key value driver of the future sustainable zero emission word.

Country: Poland

Category: Edtech

Project Aim: Ever wanted to know how is it to run your own business? Revas with its Business Simulation Games will help you experience running a business and gain useful entrepreneurial skills in a risk-free virtual environment. Business simulations are aimed mainly at secondary schools (esp. VET) and universities to facilitate teaching management and entrepreneurship as well as training business acumen and socio-economic competence. The portfolio of simulation covers now the following industries: Car garage, Beauty salon, Transport company, Hair salon, IT service, Bakery and Construction company.

What does Revas do?

We created Revas based on our experience in teaching entrepreneurship. We noticed that most entrepreneurship courses/lessons focus on the theoretical part of starting a business (legal forms, taxes, documents etc.) and participants are taught how to start but they barely understand how to manage their business and lack the necessary practical skills. That is partly why the statistics of failure among young businesses are so grim – even up to 80% of young companies fail in the first year. It is often because young entrepreneurs do not understand how their company and the market work, do not know how to adapt to volatile market conditions, react to competitor’s actions and analyse their financial and market results. Or simply they imagined running a business totally different.

That is why we offer simulations that, just like flight simulators, are the closest thing to the real life and allow participants to gain necessary skill and experience while experimenting with different strategies and decisions in a risk-free environment. Also, again as with flight simulators that teach pilots flying certain machines, we want to teach young people running business in the industry that matches their profession or field of study. If you are learning to become a car mechanic, you can try yourself as a manager of a Car garage and Logistics students can use Transport company. The main idea is that people understand business better if we give them real-life environment they feel familiar with. Then, they can make various business decisions in their virtual companies to develop essential skills needed in business (creativity, problem solving, making decisions, team work, data analysis, strategic thinking etc.) as well as get hands-on business experience and realize whether starting one’s own business is the career path one would like to take. Also, as participants compete with one another, they easily immerse themselves in the simulation, keeping the motivation for learning at a high level.

What is Revas future?

Right now, we have proved that simulations are needed in the Polish market and we begin our adventure with international markets. Starting with European countries, we would like to enthuse teachers and trainers with the idea of teaching entrepreneurship in a practical and industry-specific way.

Being recognized as the best EdTech company in Poland proves that our efforts to change the status quo in the field of entrepreneurship education are justified. Taking part in the European final is a great honour that gives us huge motivation to go on.