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Sustainable Facade Systems

As the world faces pressing climate concerns, sustainable construction takes center stage. Be part and co-create groundbreaking innovations for facade fastening systems with Würth. Tackle the problem of thermal bridges through new materials/ methods or build circular approaches that help to reuse deconstructed panels/ cladding/ sub-constructions.

#SmartFastening #EngineeringInnovation #AdvancedFacadeFastening #FacadeConstructionSystems

  • ✅ Completed
  • 🏁 Winner

    Congratulations to team Cold Pad!

  • 🏆 Prize

    potential collaboration or bonus payment + prize pool

  • 🌎 Scope

    global

  • 🚀 Program

    This Challenge is part of the Future Materials Innovation Program

  • 💡 Questions

    If you have questions, feel free to join our Q&A calls

What’s in it for you?

If you're still not convinced, we have plenty of incentives to finally convince you: By delivering prize money, exclusive events, collaboration programs or even funding opportunities our program will enable you to give your career, your concept or your startup the boost it deserves.

  • Collaboration opportunities
    During the collaboration phase, the challenge finalists will work together with the challenge provider on their approaches. If the solution meets a high level of quality, Würth is open to potential collaboration models such as Co-creation, expert knowledge transfer, and hiring or cooperation. ·    
  • Prize pool
    By participating in this challenge, you have the chance to win attractive prize money. The winners of each challenge will receive EUR 4,000 and EUR 1,000 will be awarded to the second place. By reaching (and concluding) the final collaboration phase you therefore secured your prize money.
  • Social Media prize
    Your social media activities will also be rewarded! Share your steps, processes, or progress with us and post about the ekipa events, the challenge providers and our collaboration. In the final event, one final team from the entire Future Materials Innovation Program will be honored with the Social Media prize of EUR 500.
    To take part make sure to tag all your social media posts with the following hashtags:
    #FutureMaterialsProgram #TeamName #ekipa
  • Personalized Certificates
    By participating in this challenge, you will receive a personalized certificate that confirms your participation in the challenge of the Future Materials Innovation Program. You will receive your certificate by the end of the program from us via mail.
  • Exclusive events & mentoring
    If you are selected as one of the two final teams from the qualification phase, you will have exclusive access to our ekipa Innovation Bootcamp and Final Event. In these, you will not only pitch your solution to a jury formed by representatives of the respective sectors, but you also receive coaching sessions, listen to interesting keynote speakers and have the opportunity to network with representatives from businesses as well as other innovators.
  • Impulse paper
    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 paper of all initiators.