The Challenge
Cars, trains, buses and planes – can we imagine our world without them? Yet, with the world reaching the end of oil, we have no other choice but to re-design the way travel and transport. What should the new mobility look like? How do we meet the global transportation needs in a sustainable way?
How do we transition from old to new mobility? What about solutions already created – such as electric cars or hydrogen-run trains – is there global sustainable future for them? Commercial space trips – is that really the future for all of us?
For the First Round of the competition, the challenge is to propose an original idea that re-invents the future of Transportation in a sustainable way. Acceptable ideas include:
* A new product or service,
* A new way of logistic,
* A new way of using an existing product or service,
* A new way how to organize transportation (public, business, private),
* A new policy or procedure, or
* A new collaborative network, partnership or project.
Imagined as a multi-year open innovation competition, each year Challenge: Future focuses on one specific theme, a universal challenge to be re-imagined and re-invented. We are delighted to announce that the theme of the inaugural 2009-2010 academic year is the Future of Connecting.
1st round winners by COMMUNITY votes
1st round winners by JUDGES evaluation
(not in community favorites)
| 1 | Yet Another Revolution | 66.8 | |
| 2 | Travelling without moving | 63 | |
| 3 | future fuel - panchjanya | 60 | |
| 4 | IBA | 28 | |
| 5 | Bending Reality | 23 | |
| 6 | Transporters | 22.8 | |
| 7 | the jetsons | 15.6 | |
| 8 | KSE right move | 14.4 |
| 1 | iLine | 80.3/100 | |
| 2 | Backcasters | 78.7/100 | |
| 3 | Yellowtail barracuda | 77.7/100 | |
| 4 | ESEnergy | 76.3/100 | |
| 5 | ESPreneurs-Transport | 74.7/100 |
BEST 60 teams by overall judging score
VALID FOR ALL CHALLENGES
PRE-CHALLENGE
September 2009 - November 2009
Teams are formed and ...
KICK-OFF
21st November 2009
Imagine the future…
SEMI FINALS
18th January - 15th February 2010
Create your solution and video…
FINALS
From 12th March 2010
From ideas to innovations...
FINAL EVENT
14th - 18th May 2010
The event will take place in Bled, Slovenia, EU. The judging panel will select and announce the winners.