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These are the ideas that emerged from the hackathon DECARBONISING THE VERAS CAMPUS

The 5 solutions address the vegetable garden, composting, circular construction, open data and solar accumulation

Last Friday, 23rd October, we ended the #hackathon Decarbonising the Vera Campus with the presentation to the jury of the proposals of the 5 teams of students who participated in this edition.

The hackathon was a storm of innovative ideas for saving energy and materials, reducing and recycling food waste, rethinking mobility, motivating the university community, and a thousand other proposals.

The 5 finalist ideas were:

  1. POLIHORTA: a vegetable garden on campus and in the surrounding area, which they would manage themselves and which would help to grow produce at an attractive and affordable price for students
  2. CAMPUSTAJE: a glass-type composter at the UPV, which would allow farmers, students and residents of Valencia to deposit organic waste and obtain compost.
  3. LA CASA DE PAPEL: to renovate campus buildings using cement partially made from waste paper
  4. DATA: a tool to assess the current situation on campus in terms of impacts on climate change, as a first step to motivate and mobilise the university community.
  5. THERMAL STORAGE: a solar thermal storage system to replace traditional fossil fuel boilers in some campus buildings.

In the final session, the jury selected the two teams that will go on to the five-month mentoring programme at the Col·lab in Las Naves. These two teams are CAMPUSTAJE and DATOS.

Mentoring at Col·lab aims to help students’ ideas mature to a stage as close as possible to demonstration in a relevant or real environment, ideally in the city of Valencia. To this end, the teams will have the support of the team of mentors at Col·lab, the public accelerator of the Valencia City Council and the centre of social and urban innovation of the Valencia City Council.

The hackathon is an initiative of the chair associated with the framework of the Missions València 2030 #MissionsValència.

It has been organised by the UPV-Las Naves Chair of Urban Energy Transition and the CSIC-UPV Ingenio Institute, with the collaboration of the Sistemika UPV team of facilitators.

The UPV’s Environment Unit, the Centre for Development Cooperation, the Open Government Chair, the Sustainable Earth Chair, the Housing Innovation Chair, the Climate Change Chair and the Valencian Economy Chair, all from the UPV, also collaborated by offering their support.