Source: Marie Möller, WITENO GmbH
It still happens far too often that good ideas and projects gather dust in laboratories and drawers instead of improving life, the economy or even the world. The aim of the UNIQUE ideas competition, which the University of Greifswald organises every year together with WITENO GmbH and other partners, is to change this. The competition is aimed at students, graduates and university employees and is the Greifswald edition of the nationwide inspired ideas competition.
The award ceremony took place at the end of June, at which an independent jury of high-ranking representatives from business, science and politics cast their votes. Sponsor and audience prizes were also awarded. The winner of the evening was the "HanseDeeg" project, which is dedicated to the production and marketing of low-carb ready-made potato products. The friends of potatoes scooped three prizes: Andreas Moll Katharina Ambrosius and Dinah Petersen not only took first place in the "Students" category, but also the special sponsor prize from "InterMedienNetworks" and the audience award.
The overview of the winning teams:
Category "Students"
- Place: "HanseDeeg" - Andreas Moll Katharina Ambrosius, Dinah Petersen
Production and marketing of low-carb ready-to-eat potato products - 1st place: "Gender in medicine" - Sebastian Paschen, Moritz Roloff, Saskia Mohrhagen
Initiative to take gender-specific characteristics into account in medical training and research - 1st place: "Tiles Art App" - Nicolas Glaser, Fabian Schlichting
App for the optimisation of (tile) trade businesses
Category "Researchers & Graduates"
- 1st place: "Küstenforscher" - Johannes Sarau, Tim Luedtke
Educational project for the Greifswald Bodden - First place: "FreiRaum Usedom" - Susanne Henne
Networking centre in the town of Usedom - Place: "BaltConsult" - Judith Kärn
Policy advice for the Baltic Sea states
Special prize "Sustainability"
- "Alge.Mein" - Hendrik Blase, Anna Schurig, Malin Geistmann, Cord Masche
Researching and promoting algae as a supplementary foodstuff
Special prize "IBU project" by Dirk Heidel
- "FreiRaum Usedom" - Susanne Henne
Networking centre in the town of Usedom
Special prize from "InterMedienNetworks
InterMedienNetworks CEO Robert Zeidler took the opportunity to award the special prize to three teams this year:
- "Booker" - Marianna Piruzyan, Mercedes Spiering
App for easier organisation of events - "HanseDeeg" - Andreas Moll, Katharina Ambrosius, Dinah Petersen
Production and marketing of low-carb ready-to-eat potato products - "Gender in medicine" - Sebastian Paschen, Moritz Roloff, Saskia Mohrhagen
Initiative to take gender-specific characteristics into account in medical training and research
Audience Award
With the help of the live feedback system from the Rostock-based start-up Tweeback:
- "HanseDeeg" - Andreas Moll, Katharina Ambrosius, Dinah Petersen
Production and marketing of low-carb ready-to-eat potato products
The winning teams can not only look forward to substantial prize money. They also receive advice and active support from recognised start-up experts in the further development of their ideas and, in the best case scenario, in the founding of the company.
The prizes won by the winners were only possible thanks to the numerous sponsors, who deserve our sincere thanks: GENIUS Venture Capital GmbH; BioCon Valley® GmbH; InterMedienNetworks GmbH; Savings Bank Western PomeraniaHardtke Svensson & Partner; Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald; I.B.U. Projekt GmbH.
We would like to congratulate all award-winning ideas and thank all participants in this year's UNIQUE ideas competition! We wish you good luck for the nationwide ideas competition on 13 July!
Press contact
At WITENO GmbH At the University of Greifswald
Marie Möller & Dr Gudrun Mernitz Dr Stefan Seiberling & Dr Heinrich Cuypers
Technology Centre Vorpommern Centre for Research Promotion & Transfer
Brandteichstr. 20, 17489 Greifswald Wollweberstraße 1, 17489 Greifswald
Phone +49 3834 550 113 Phone +49 3834 420 1174
unique@witeno.de unique@uni-greifswald.de
FURTHER INFORMATION
UNIQUE ideas competition | https://unique.uni-greifswald.de/
In recent years, the UNIQUE competitions at the Greifswald research centre have proven to be an effective instrument for stimulating start-ups from the University of Greifswald, the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the Friedrich Löffler Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health. In recent years, more than 120 teams of researchers and students have developed start-up concepts with validated potential, resulting in the founding of more than 30 companies from all areas of the university. The competition is aimed at creative students, alumni and researchers who develop successful business models from innovative ideas. In addition to attractive bonuses and special prizes, the winners can look forward to a wide range of qualification measures to support their start-up. The partner WITENO GmbH, the association of municipal technology centres in Greifswald, supports company founders and young companies.
The UNIQUE ideas competition is supported by funds from the European Social Fund (ESF).
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