Open for participation
Current projects where you can still join and participate in our open innovation programs.


Transform Healthcare. Scale in Essen.
Can your solution in AI, MedTech, or digital health transform how hospitals deliver and manage care? Whether it’s predictive analytics, robotic surgery, digital therapeutics, or smart hospital systems—join EWG’s Health Scale-Up Challenge and tap into their Market Entry Program, offering funding, clinical networks, and business support to expand into the German and European markets, with Essen as your launchpad. Who can take part? This challenge is open only to scale-ups that are planning to relocate to Essen or open a branch in the region. #Health #DigitalHealth #EssenHealth #VentureScaling #InnovateTogether #AIinHealth #E-Health
Ongoing
Projects currently in progress where participation has closed. Follow along to see the results!


Driving Innovation with Speech-based Conversational AI
LBBW is calling on AI experts to develop a proof of concept showcasing that speech-based conversational AI can enhance verbal communication in complex B2B environments. Starting with real estate financing, help us explore how AI-driven spoken dialogue systems can streamline decision-making and stakeholder interactions. Successful participants will gain access to co-creation opportunities, research collaborations, or long-term partnerships with LBBW. #ConversationalAI #NaturalLanguageProcessing #B2BCommunication #RealEstateFinancing #LLMSolutions


Venture Clienting mit Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim sucht innovative Startups und Scale-ups, die gemeinsam an Innovationen in den Bereichen Digital Twins, AI-Driven Data Analytics und Digital Showrooms arbeiten wollen. #VentureClient #AI #DigitalTwin #DigitalShowroom


Venture Clienting mit Sparkasse Bremen
Sparkasse Bremen sucht innovative Startups, Scale-ups und Tech-Unternehmen, die im Rahmen des Venture-Client-Inkubators gemeinsam an Lösungen in einen von zwei Bereichen arbeiten wollen 1) KI-basierte Finanztools für Selbstbestimmung oder Finanzwissen oder 2) Nachhaltigkeits-Angebote für den Mittelstand #VentureClient #SmartFinance #Nachhaltigkeit


AI-Assistant for Content Generation
Join our challenge to automate content creation with AI! First goal is to co-create a prototype focusing on text-based outputs like newsletters or blog posts. Gain paid collaboration opportunities, career advancement, and exclusive certifications with Deutsche Telekom IoT #AIAssistant #ContentManagement #MarketingAutomation


AI im Engineering: Smarte Fahrzeugentwicklung
Rheinmetall strebt, unterstützt durch state-of-the-art KI-Modelle, eine Revolution im Entwicklungsprozess von Landfahrzeugen an. Ziel: Schluss mit manueller Datenzusammenführung durch Ingenieure hin zu einem KI-Assistenten, der präzise, datenbasierte Konzepte für Komponenten und Baugruppen eines Fahrzeugs liefert. Nimm teil, sichere dir eine wichtige Business-Partnerschaft und präge mit uns die Zukunft des Engineerings! Deadline: 09. Juli 2024 um 23:59 Uhr (MESZ) #AI&Innovation #VehicleConstruction #DataDrivenEngineering


KI-Innovationen: Nächste Stufe der Kundeninteraktion
Die Württembergische Versicherung AG sucht bahnbrechende AI & GenAI-Innovationen, um die eigene Landingpage zu transformieren. Einreichungsdeadline: 09.07.2024, 11:59 Uhr MEZ/MESZ #GenAI #DigitalCustomerJourney #InnovativeInsurance


Use AI to revolutionize banks' risk management and decision-making
We are seeking innovative solutions that integrate Large Language Models with traditional quantitative analytics to predict financial risks with greater accuracy. Deadline: July 9, 2024 at 23:59pm (CEST) #AIRiskPrediction #FinancialAnalytics #AIinBanking


Foundation Model Evaluator
Develop an innovative concept or prototype to assess & evaluate the performance of foundation models, optimizing their selection process for practical AI use cases. Deadline: July 9, 2024 at 23:59pm (CEST) #GenAI #FoundationModels #ModelEvaluation
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Deloitte's Quantum Climate Challenge 2024 – Flood Prediction
We invite you to explore quantum computing and machine learning by tackling the challenge to develop a new approach in enhancing flood forecasting and disaster prediction to improve climate resilience. #quantumcomputing #QuantumML #machinelearning #floodprediction #climatechange


Sustainable Construction & Machinery: Advancing Zero Emissions and Circularity
Join us in reshaping the construction industry towards zero emissions. Show us your innovative approaches for sustainable construction and machinery, focusing on circular approaches, data-driven efficiency, or customer-centric innovation.


Visual Insights - Innovative Visualisierung von Prozessdaten der Energiebranche
Gemeinsam mit Iqony könnt ihr die Effizienz von Windkraftanlagen erhöhen. Wie können komplexe Prozessdaten von Windkraftanlagen durch kreative und intuitive Visualisierungen besser nutzbar gemacht werden? Werde Teil der Visual Insights Challenge und entwickle innovative Visualisierungen für komplexe Prozessdaten, um den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien voranzutreiben!


Future Retail: Innovative Customer Journey
Tired of waiting in line? Then this challenge is for you! Get ready to revolutionize the check-in & check-out experience within a holistic store concept and create seamless shopping encounters. Explore how Rossmann can enhance the user experience while outsmarting demographic change and the shortage of skilled workers – join us in shaping the future of retail!


Generative AI as a personal agent for knowledge management processes
Unleash the power of Artificial Intelligence and generative models in the pharmaceutical industry together with Boehringer Ingelheim by developing personalized AI agents that support health workers in knowledge management, research & content creation. Shape the future of human-machine interaction and master demanding challenges in the pharmaceutical industry together.


Visual Intelligence and 3D-Modelling for next-level Retail
Collaborate with a leading multinational retail-group and leverage new technological advancements in visual intelligence to automate 3D-modelling. Transform the way retailers handle product imagery to enable faster and more accurate inventory management, improved customer experiences, and optimized supply chains. For the roll-out of a scalable solution, there would be an adequate multi-million project budget available after the challenge.


A personalized pension guide with AI
Have you ever felt overwhelmed, confused or bored by the pension system, your pension scheme, or entitlements? Join APG, a leading pension provider in the Netherlands, in exploring the use of generative AI like ChatGPT to provide tailored insightful and relevant information about retirement planning that meets everyone´s unique needs. Let us hear your innovative ideas!


Venture Capital meets AI
Explore the Fusion of Venture Capital and AI! This innovation challenge invites you to uncover new technological opportunities for strategic investment and VC financing. How can AI enhance the process of identifying promising startups for venture capital investment? How can AI transform the way companies secure capital? Discover new opportunities and shape the future of strategic investment in the era of AI!


Next Level Banking with GPT
Sparkasse Bremen, a leading bank in Germany, and its affiliates Smavesto (Roboadvisor) and Flexi (Proptech) are seeking your solutions to enhance their services using cutting-edge technologies like GPT. Can you design innovative solutions to improve customer service and enhance marketing efforts for exciting financial services ?


Enpulse Call: Carbon Management
CO2 in unserer Atmosphäre wirkt als Brandbeschleuniger für den Klimawandel. Wir suchen Eure Startup-Ideen, um bereits vorhandenes CO2 der Atmosphäre zu entziehen, es für weitere Zwecke nutzbar zu machen oder mithilfe von Nachweisführung Transparenz über die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette herzustellen. #CarbonManagement #StartupProgram #Scholarships


Future of sustainable energy concepts
The increasing climatic challenges as well as political geo-crises have an ever more immense influence on energy consumption. Sustainable energy concepts and renewable energies can efficiently counteract these challenges. However, this requires innovative and intelligent solutions that ensure the development of sustainable, implementable and climate-friendly energy concepts by processing complex data sets. #smartenergyconcepts #energytransisition


Future of smart inventory for turbine components
Manufacturers of wind turbines are operating worldwide offering their services far beyond sales - such as maintenance or repair services. However, the turbines are distributed worldwide and are therefore maintained by different providers. Thus, General Electric is looking for digital solutions to provide a digital-mappable inventory of the manufacturer's wind turbine fleet components that have been installed and modified in recent years, as well as a long-term system to have real-time and up-to-date turbine component information. #smartwindturbineinventory #realtimedataboom #agiledataservices


Mystery Waste Box – Wie die Digitalisierung das Rätsel der Abfallzusammensetzung lösen kann
In der Abfallindustrie bedarf es effizienterer technologisch führender Systeme, um eine verbesserte Müllerkennung, folglich auch Sortierung und Abfalltrennung zu gewährleisten und somit Müll ressourcenschonend und -gewinnend zu grüner Energie zu verarbeiten. #futurewastedisposal #digitalwastedetectionassistant #digitalwasterecognitionassistant


Digital Future Challenge
Werde aktiv für eine der kommenden Herausforderungen unserer Zeit: Entwickle innovative Ideen und Ansätze zu den Themen New Work & Einführung neuer Technologien & Innovationen wie z.B. Roboter, künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und Quantencomputing und gestalte unsere digitale Zukunft wegweisend mit!


Joyful Diversity with AI
Support the BMW Group and its employees to shape a joyful working environment & an inclusive communication. Together with passion we can make a difference for a better future. #AIforDiversity #InclusiveCommunication #ModernWorkEnvironment


Accelerating ESG-related legal research technology
Partner with Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, to build an AI-based application to automate the monitoring of enacted and planned ESG regulations in the area of real estate development! #AIforESG #SustainableLegal #RealEstateRegTech #LegalTech


The Future of Smart Fleet Planning
Come together with SIXT, the global premium service provider and innovation leader in the mobility sector, to find new data-driven approaches and data science-based solutions including the use of AI that offer enormous potential for the comprehensive optimization of fleet planning process. #SustainableFleetPlanning #FleetOptimization #DataDrivenFleet


Quantum Climate Challenge 2022
Click here to be part of the new Deloitte's Quantum Climate Challenge 2023! Quantum.Link by Deloitte invites you to investigate how Quantum Computing can be used to reduce the negative impact of air travel on the climate by optimizing flight trajectories.
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