Izzivi mednarodnih podjetij (02/2022)

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ENEL: AI for protected vegetation recognition (Environmental sustainability. Biodiversity preservation).

🌱 Enel is looking for new tools to improve the environmental sustainability and biodiversity preservation of its renewable installations, as photovoltaic plants and/or wind farms..
💡 The company is looking for solutions to be applied during the construction phase of renewable power plants to detect selected tree or other vegetation species, that may be rare, in danger of extinction, or of particular importance for the local biodiversity equilibrium of the considered area, or that are protected by regulation. Improperly identified plant species during the preliminary phase of a project could delay the renewable plant construction. ⏱️ Challenge closes on 14th February 2022 ⏱️

❣️ The company is looking for early discovery research that involves targets with strong genetic evidence in haematology, with a focus on haemoglobinopathies (sickle cell disease, beta‑thalassemia, and alpha‑thalassemia), coagulopathies (haemophilia A, haemophilia B, von Willebrand disease, hereditary antithrombin‑III deficiency), or myeloproliferative neoplasms.
💡 Approaches of Interest: Therapeutic approaches to treat haemoglobinopathies / coagulopathies / myeloproliferative neoplasms. Unique and innovative therapeutic modalities are encouraged. Open to different modalities including small molecules, biologics, oligonucleotides, and gene therapy including gene editing. Novel approaches for in vivo or ex vivo targeted delivery to haematopoietic stem cells, hepatocytes, or endothelial cells, including lentivirus, adeno‑associated virus (AAV) capsids, and lipid nanoparticles (LNP) ⏱️ Challenge closes on 22nd February 2022 ⏱️

Procter & Gambler: Seeking High Moisture Barrier Sachet Packaging (Biodegradable packaging material).

🚧 The company is looking for a packaging material innovation, to replace the current multi-material laminate sachet packaging of the CSDW water purification product.
💡 The company is interested in packaging that is less persistent in Nature, while still providing the required high moisture barrier properties to safeguard the product’s efficacy. ⏱️ Challenge closes on 2nd March 2022⏱️

PepsiCo: Seeking Next Generation Sustainable Cooler (Refrigeration. Materials).

🆒 PepsiCo is seeking creative solutions, innovative design idea, out of the box thinking for entire system to create Next Generation Sustainable Cooler.
💡 The company is open to a broad range of solutions to reduce cooler GHG emissions that can apply throughout a cooler’s lifecycle, from manufacturing through to end-of-life. Solutions may include novel designs not only related to refrigeration system but also include other systems such as: New Alternative material, design construction of the cooler, ways to disrupt current design, eliminating the foam…etc to reduce/remove diffusion limitations within a biofilm and/or increase useable cell densities within a bioreactor. ⏱️ Challenge closes on 23rd June 2022⏱️

ENEL: Energy Storage Systems: technologies to optimize costs, profitability and sustainability.

🔋 Enel is looking for new technologies, architectures and control strategies to lower energy storage costs considering the whole lifetime, to improve the way the Energy Storage assets are built, operated and maintained, in order to maximize their profitability and sustainability overall the whole value chain.
💡 The company is looking for solutions that have a real interest for energy storage end-users. The solutions should at least at 5-6 TRL level (Technology validated \ demonstrated in relevant environment) or that are focusing not on functional system but only on a specific sub-component. ⏱️ Challenge deadline: always open ⏱️

MONTELEZ: Effective technologies for decanting confectionary fluids from road tankers.

🍯 Montelez wants to have a positive impact on our future and therefore are looking into an industry-wide solution that enables us to empty tankers more effectively. We hope to find a solution to use internally and to share with our supply partners.

💡 The company is looking for solutions: effective emptying the tanker (a smarter way to empty a tanker— a material technology that enables confectionary liquids to flow without sticking to the stainless-steel tanker walls; Examples of such technology exist, however, these are mainly tried and tested on low viscosity fluids and emulsions) and metering systems for confectionary fluids (which will enable us to be more accurate with our internal accounting and with our supplier invoicing. These could be tanker mounted or installed at plant). ⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated ⏱️

MONTELEZ: Sustainable methods for reducing the amount and/or environmental impact of agro-chemicals on key crops

🎋 Natural, safe means for increasing growth of key crops such as wheat and cocoa and/or to fight common insect pests such as mirids in cocoa and diseases such as fusarium head blight in wheat and black pod disease in cocoa.
💡 The company is looking for solutions that result in: Effective control of pests and disease – high survival rate of strains. Improve nitrogen fixation. Easy handling materials (low environmental sensitivity/ product stability to sunlight, humidity, temperature, rain). Environmentally friendly. Shouldn’t require additional equipment or investment for farmers. Reduce carbon emissions. Must have at least Proof-of-concept data. ⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated ⏱️

MONTELEZ: State-of-the-art technologies for monitoring and measurement of crop health and yield (Smart agriculture)

🌱 Innovative methods and tools for continuous, in-season monitoring and measurement of cocoa tree health status and yield to inform pre-emptive actions to limit tree damage or yield loss and allow for efficient use of resources.
💡 The company is looking for solutions: Crop health monitoring and pod counting solutions that enable continuous, real-time, in-season tracking could allow for more accurate monitoring and measurement with fewer labour resources. Digital collection of data would also enable long-term records to be developed to better understand yield challenges to cocoa in a changing climate. AI image analysis, electronic noses and other emerging sensing solutions (e.g. for plant volatiles). ⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated ⏱