Sector Coupling for Smart Cities

What is in it for you?

In order to give the developed solutions, the greatest possible appreciation and attention, all solutions of the final teams will be published in a joint publication! This way, they can be regarded as recommendations for action or instruments for politics, economy, and society and at the same time be pursued further.

In addition, the best six teams of the overall DEUTSCHLAND 4.0 project will receive prize money totaling 15.000€, which will be divided equally among all six teams.

Besides prize money we have many exciting opportunities for you:

• An invitation to the Federal Chancellery for a personal interview with Dorothee Bär for the award-winning teams
• Contact to experts from business and science
• Further collaborations with the company of the use case with the prospect of implementing the project
• Access to exclusive events and personal mentoring by innovation experts from the Lufthansa Group
• Support for the continuation of your solutions through the Campus Founders' Accelerator Program
• Potential internships with the cooperation partners

Incentives - Vattenfall

Vattenfall wants to give promising participants and teams the opportunity to further advance their ideas and solutions. The finalists of the use case will work together on the approaches in the course of the elaboration phase in order to discuss possible further joint steps individually in the follow-up to the project.

The first ideas for a joint collaboration beyond the project are as follows:

• Direct participation as working student, intern, bachelor / master student
• Setting up pilot projects
• Potential international scaling