The call for projects for the City’ZEN Challenge, an international, inter-school competition, ended on January 5, 2021. Thirty-one projects were received on subjects related to the local economy, the environment, agriculture, health, tourism, education and e-commerce.
The jury, composed of members of the Berger-Levrault executive team, selected, with no small amount of effort, the ten finalist teams that will take part in the second step of the competition.
Each selected team will be supported by a Berger-Levrault coach whose main role is to contribute to the development of each innovative project-idea.
The close cooperation between the students and the coaches will last six months and culminate in the presentation to the final Grand Jury at the end of June 2021.
Context: Health/blood donation
The concept:
The strict and restrictive measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic caused a severe deficit in the country’s blood banks. This situation has become serious for blood cancer and hemophilia patients.
Our idea is to create a mobile application that will facilitate the blood donation process by linking blood donation centers to donors, which will help to maintain a stable, sufficient blood stock and therefore save lives.
Context: eHealth care
The concept:
Our solution will allow doctors to write prescriptions and send them to all pharmacies using the mobile application. After confirmation, the patient will receive a list of the pharmacies that have the medication he or she needs. Using a specific identification number, the patient will either go to the pharmacy or place an order online.
In addition, databases of patients will be added to this application, since all their medical information will be archived. This will considerably reduce medical errors and also save patients time and money as they will not have to, for example, repeat medical tests they have already done.
Context: eHealth/Healthcare for elderly persons/Care or retirement homes
The concept:
Medic’App is an application designed to help elderly persons organize their medication intake, and to provide them with the location of the nearest pharmacies and emergency services. The application will include an “alarm” system in which the user configures the name of the medication and the frequency of intake, and this will then appear as a phone notification.
Other features under consideration include an appointment calendar, an SOS button to call an emergency contact and reminders to refill medications.
Context: Catering/food and health/e-commerce
The concept:
We have all had the experience of trying to plan an evening with a group of friends when the choice of restaurant was not unanimous. Allergies, diet, budget, neighborhood/location, personal preferences… all these factors can make choosing a restaurant a complicated process. WherEat aims to solve this problem.
Thanks to a detailed profile management system that takes into account all factors and details of each participant as well as other factors such as date, time, location, distance, travel time, etc., the algorithm-based mobile application will suggest the most relevant restaurants.
The application will also allow participants to share the bill according to what they have ordered individually.
With WherEat, choosing a restaurant will be a piece of cake!
Context: Solidarity/health care/social services
The concept:
The idea is to create a mobile application to help people suffering from isolation (for example, due to COVID) by facilitating their daily life. It will connect them with volunteers in their neighborhood who will provide them with various services such as: purchase/delivery of groceries, food and other essential supplies, handiwork services and/or household chores, administrative tasks, etc.
Context: COVID/Health/Disease prevention
The concept:
How can we make people aware of the need for better and more effective handwashing?
Our solution is to create a user experience for establishments that are open to the public. It will be an interactive educational display consisting of a screen, a dispenser and a compartment. The screen will display a video showing the optimal way to wash your hands. The dispenser, highlighted on the display, will offer users a disinfectant solution. This solution combines a hydro-alcoholic solution and a fluorescent solution/powder. Users can wash their hands with the solution, following the video or not. They can then test the distribution of the product on their hands by simply placing their hands in a black compartment.
The fluorescent solution, which creates energy through exposure to light, will glow in the dark. The user will be able to see the result using a camera. In addition, artificial intelligence can be used to calculate the percentage of surfaces covered during hand washing and compare this result with those of other users.
The terminal will indicate that the experiment data is collected for this purpose.
Context: Services to citizens/Local authorities/Electronic documents
The concept:
The objective is to simplify access to identity papers through a mobile application, while guaranteeing the security and confidentiality of personal data. The dematerialization of documents helps to avoid oversight and long administrative procedures in case of theft or loss.
The application is highly secured thanks to double encryption technology.
Context: Local trade and agriculture/environment/health/solidarity
The concept:
VegeGreen is an application for product exchange between individuals living in the same neighborhood, which allows each person to locally produce what they wish, while supporting the whole community.
The goal is simple: to use this application to allow a connection between the actors producing at the local level (small producers, farms, people with a vegetable garden, etc.) and the potential buyers of these products (private individuals). The idea is to encourage local supply chains, meetings and support.
People who own gardens can provide free access so that others can maintain them and cultivate their products.
Context: Motor vehicle safety/road safety/emergency response
The concept:
Every second lost in a road accident reduces the chances of survival. This is why we want to develop Aceso.
A black box connected to the vehicle records all the parameters before an accident, such as speed, point of impact and geolocation. In the case of a major impact, Aceso automatically contacts emergency services, indicating the position of the vehicle in order to save time.
Context: Environment/trade and retail/food and textile production
The concept:
To create a free mobile application to learn about the carbon footprint of food and textile consumer products. The carbon footprint will be calculated based on several recognized environmental factors.
In addition, the application will offer alternative products (in terms of price and quality) that have a lower carbon footprint.
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