Innovative Solutions against Indoor Air Pollutants

With 4,900 employees allocated in more than 100 countries, tesa is a global, innovative front-runner of self-adhesive solutions in two main markets: direct industry and trade markets. Trade markets includes “General Industrial Markets” and “Consumer and Craftsmen (C&C)”,among others.

The C&C business has been served for decades with all kinds of adhesives tapes and the iconic brand position of "tesa" has been achieved not only in Germany.

The portfolio has already been successfully extended to solutions well exceeding the adhesive tapes solution, for example to self-adhesive bathroom accessories, DIY insect protection screen, fine dust cleaning filter for printers, etc. 

Therefore, in users perception, tesa does not only stand for adhesives but for clever, reliable and high quality solutions helping him to improve, decorate, arrange & protect his home and to achieve better results at work in his daily life.

tesa wants to further extend and grow their solutions portfolio and brand promise around protection and is looking for innovative household solutions that not only facilitate consumers’ daily life but that also makes them feel good and safer at home.

With your help, we want to embrace consumers to have a living space with cleaner and healthier air conditions and therefore to increase their satisfaction and comfort feeling while being at home!

ekipa is a full-service provider for innovation challenges with the digital generation. We bring together digital natives with the long experience of established companies and organizations. This results in creative solutions for the great challenges of our society. Our current ekipa crowd consists of more than 10,000 users, among them students, graduates and also young founders. In addition to cooperation’s with nearly 80 universities throughout Europe, which integrate the challenges into the university context, our young company from Frankfurt has more than 350 startups from business incubators and hubs in its network. Ekipa thus drives the networking between the young, digital generation and the big companies, opens up unused potential and creates added value for both parties.

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In general for the first phase, which runs until April 6th, you have to briefly describe your idea in the given submission template. If you want, you can supplement that with additional documents - such as more detailed concepts or drawings. You can find all information about the submission in the "submission" Tab.

Also, we have a series of explanation videos that describe how you can participate on our platform: CLICK HERE

Thats great! Optimally hollistic approaches are searched.

tesa will pick 8 teams that advance to the interview phase and based on the interviews 6 teams that will advance to the elaboration phase.

At the end of the qualification phase we will notify the semi-finalists via mail and provide them with a detailed feedback from tesa.

The winning teams will also be notified via e-mail at the end of the project and the contact will be handed over to the experts at tesa to discuss the next steps.  

The rewards involve a prize pool of 7,500€ that will be distributed to the winning teams as follows:

1st Place: 4,000€

2nd Place: 2,500€

3rd Place: 1,000€

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