UCreate alumni projects
Since 2020, more than 120 projects have benefited from support under the UCreate program. We also support non-program projects that are residents of the Villanova. These project leaders reflect the new generation of actors of change at UNIL who are working towards a sustainable future.
Congratulations to all of them for their determination, their creativity and their ability to carry out these projects in parallel with their studies, research or professional activity !
Would you like to take part in the next UCreate cohort ?
UCreate alumni projects
Since 2020, more than 120 projects have benefited from support under the UCreate program. We also support non-program projects that are residents of the Villanova. These project leaders reflect the new generation of actors of change at UNIL who are working towards a sustainable future.
Congratulations to all of them for their determination, their creativity and their ability to carry out these projects in parallel with their studies, research or professional activity !
- All
- Art, history, culture
- Education (EN)
- Energy, water, environment
- Equality, diversity, inclusion
- Food
- Healthcare, lifescience
- Leisure & Sport
- Shared economy, e-commerce
- Sustainable finance
A Voice for All
NGO stakeholders often find it very difficult to access scientific literature. It is difficult to access, expensive, takes a long time to produce and is not mobile.
A Voice for All offers an application that makes peer-reviewed literature accessible, fast and enjoyable, with a non-monetary subscription option.
📆 Autumn 2022 cohort
Academly
60% of doctoral students stop or extend their studies, and inadequate supervision is correlated with the desire to stop.
48% of academic advisers say they have not been trained to manage a diverse team.
Academly offers a team management tool that helps researchers who want to foster a good working environment by providing relevant, easy-to-access resources on mentoring and leadership.
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
Allerpass
20 to 40% of the population suffers from allergies. To seek treatment, patients generally have to go through an emergency department, a GP and/or a GP. This process can take months, from reaction to consultation. What's more, paper allergy passports are expensive, cumbersome, difficult to trace, sometimes illegible and often forgotten by the person concerned.
Allerpass offers a digital allergy passport for monitoring and teaching patients about severe allergies. Allergy sufferers benefit from better care and health monitoring, and doctors save consultation time by having all the information they need to treat their patients properly.
📆 Autumn 2022 cohort
Alleviate
In the paediatric intensive care unit, measurement poses three problems:
- Assessment: 70 instruments developed for the 4 conditions combined, and the overlap of symptoms increases the mental workload for nurses who have to remember to assess 4 different conditions. When several instruments are available, this can create confusion and nurses have been known to choose the wrong instrument for the wrong condition.
- Once the assessment has taken place, the second challenge is to document it. 1 instrument out of 4 is integrated into the electronic medical record, while the other 3 are on paper. Of the instruments integrated into the electronic medical record, only 12% automatically calculate a score. Calculating scores and remembering to document them in the hectic environment of the PICU therefore represents a workload.
- The third challenge is interpreting the scores. There is a lack of guidance on how to interpret and use the scores and, at present, no instrument has usable score-based EB recommendations.
Alleviate's mission is to develop a simple tool to help relieve unnecessary suffering. It is an electronic tool that combines four previously developed measuring instruments and eliminates overlapping elements. It is patient-centred and relies on continuous communication between nurses, which is a unique feature. It ensures that the right instruments are used for each patient at the right time. An internal scoring algorithm calculates a score for each condition and, based on this score, makes evidence-based management recommendations.
Archeostoria
In March 2020, 630 people in French-speaking Switzerland were surveyed about their views on Switzerland's historical heritage. 93% of them would like to see children made more aware of the need to protect Switzerland's heritage. 85% visit at least one archaeological site a year. 60% want to be kept up to date with current events in Swiss archaeology.
Archeostoria is the first Swiss archaeological association dedicated to the general public. It offers cultural outings and visits, cultural mediation for children and schools, promotion and collaboration with museums, as well as expertise and communication.
📆 Spring 2020 cohort
Art croisé
No consultancy firm takes care of the promotion of works of art from the Caribbean on its own.
Art croisé is an innovative marketplace and creative ecosystem for representing, promoting and linking Swiss and Caribbean artists.
📆 Autumn 2021 cohort
ATIPIKEY
99% of people on the autism spectrum face problems of inclusion in the workplace, whether through a lack of accessibility to certain jobs, or a lack of adaptation of working environments.
Through participative expertise, intelligent match making and long-term support, Atipikey helps people on the autism spectrum in their working lives. It also trains companies to make the most of atypical talent by creating personalised training on and through inclusion.
🗞️ ATIPIKEY won a CHF 10'000 grant from FIT Impact, in October 2023. More info here.
🗞️ ATIPIKEY won the Prix Coup de Coeur of CHF 10,000 at the Prix PERL in May 2024. More info here
Discover their website here : https://www.atipikey.ch/ Discover their video presentation here : https://vimeo.com/862279618/e1cb8df88b
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
BioHeatShield
The central problem addressed is the increased vulnerability of crops to extreme temperature variations due to climate change. This problem is particularly pressing for small-scale farmers who do not have access to advanced technological solutions.
How might we offer small-scale farmers loosing agricultural yields due to heat waves, an accessible, effective and inexpensive solution ?
📆 Spring 2024 cohort
Cap’Able
46% of young people feel that they are poorly informed about what can be done about climate change. 70% of young people feel very or extremely worried about climate change.
Cap'Able offers a game covering all aspects of climate change. Validated by experts, it aims to inform in order to inspire, with game mechanics inspired by real life.
An article from Uniscope about the project is available here: https://wp.unil.ch/uniscope/capable-laventure-qui-met-le-pion-sur-nos-incoherences/
📆 Autumn 2022 cohort
Discover their website :
Click & Act
To create an innovative web platform for humanitarian projects combining crowdfunding, information exchange and micro-decision-making. For a community to commit to a project, it needs to be involved and made an actor in it. The solutions developed aim to make social projects possible by empowering users and donors.
Read Matteo's article in Le Temps here, and his appearance on Forum des Idées (RTS) here.
Discover his website here.
📆 Autumn 2022 cohort
This project was supported by TL as part of the UCreate program.
Clubhouse Hockey
Information about hockey news is scattered across several platforms and sources, in several languages. Since it is provided by federations and institutions, the content is conventional and not very captivating, which makes for a boring experience for enthusiasts.
Clubhouse Hockey is a free mobile application that brings together all the content and information in one place to help all hockey fans enjoy their sport.
📆 Spring 2021 cohort
COcean2
COcean2 is active in the effort to decarbonize our ecosystem using our largest carbon sink: the ocean. For its first pilot project aimed at issuing qualitative carbon contribution credits with social co-benefits, the Hydrochar by COcean2 project, in collaboration with UNIL's Institut de la Dynamique de la Surface Terrestre and Agroscope, is tackling the creation of biochar from macrophytes grown on Lake Léman.
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
Convergence
The ecological transition in everyone's daily life often requires a lot of resources, knowledge and training in sustainability, visibility and integration into a community.
Convergence is a physical and digital community of sustainable alternatives, which makes the transition possible, easy and enjoyable, through integration into a local ecological transition network and access to strong sustainability guides.
📆 Spring 2020 cohort
Discover their website :
Culture for the Planet
Only 10% of museums are part of a sustainability network. Management generally lacks the resources to invest, the necessary skills and other priorities.
- Culture for the Planet proposes a model with 3 components:
- Creating a benchmark to help situate the museum within the United Nations' sustainable development objectives
- Providing a series of workshops to implement these measures and communicate on sustainability in museums
Offer an alliance between two cultural institutions
Discover their new scientific article entitled "How Sustainable Are Cultural Organizations? A Global Benchmark" in the journal Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy.
📆 Autumn 2022 cohort
CYBERSEC
There are few specialized resources to help victims of crimes committed in cyberspace.
CYBERSEC is a support service for victims of online fraud. Through a community of mutual aid and personalized support, we alleviate the risks and consequences suffered by victims of cybercrime.
DIA4U
Diabetes is increasingly prevalent in developing countries, affecting an estimated 422 million people. Diabetes kills and cost 760 billion dollars in 2019. Many healthcare professionals do not have the necessary knowledge, due to a lack of circulation of knowledge.
DIA4U offers a customised train-the-trainer programme to improve diabetes knowledge and care in developing countries.
📆 Spring 2021 cohort
Discover their website :
Diabète, Même pas peur!
Parenting a child with type 1 diabetes is a real daily challenge, marked by exhaustion and worry, especially when you have to entrust your child to someone else.
Diabète, même pas peur! revolutionizes this reality by offering parents the opportunity to create, on-demand and effortlessly, a training course in caring for their child. This training, combining best practices in the field with the specificities of the child, is based on content validated by healthcare professionals. Available at the click of a button, it enables anyone to acquire, in less than 30 minutes, the skills and confidence needed to care for a child in complete safety.
In this way, we are contributing to a future where families affected by type 1 diabetes can live with serenity and freedom.
🏆 Diabète, Même pas peur ! wins the Pitch'N'Bar at GEW 2023. Find out more about it here.
Discover their interview for the FIT Impact with the 24 heures : here.
🗞️ Diabète, Même Pas Peur, wins the Grand Prix of CHF 20'000 at FIT Impact, in May 2024. Find out more here.
For further information :
📆 Spring 2024 cohort
e-Fishency
Worldwide, fish populations are not doing well, which is why the authorities are trying to support them by "re-stocking" with artificially-bred fish. However, the processes used today are based on laws that are 50 years old. Fish are selected at random, which can lead to serious problems with reproduction and adaptability.
e-Fishency aims to offer specific genetic solutions to improve productivity, reduce mortality and allow natural and aquaculture populations to thrive again, while respecting the natural processes that humans all too often tend to simplify.
📆 Spring 2020 cohort
Discover their project here.
E-Motion
Too few patents are filed in obstetrics, indicating the low level of innovation in the discipline. At present, the core business of childbirth is clearly losing ground to other disciplines such as foetal medicine. And yet, delivery by vaginal route or caesarean section remains the ultimate goal of a pregnancy. We are seeing a real dehumanisation of childbirth in favour of patient safety.
E-Motion proposes to use virtual reality to help create and maintain a maternal bond at every stage of pregnancy and childbirth.
📆 Autumn 2020 cohort
Discover the project here.
EcoCompteur
On average, a Swiss family of 3 will consume 191 litres of water per person per day in 2021. At the same time, access to data and information can reduce water consumption by 20-30%.
EcoCompteur is proposing the hire of real-time data meters linked to a specific water outlet. These meters would be linked to a monitoring application.
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
EthiS
The current structure of EMSs poses a number of ethical challenges. These include a number of dilemmas, such as:
- Should nursing staff support a resident's request for assisted suicide?
- At what point should care staff restrict the freedom or autonomy of a resident suffering from dementia?
- How can care teams manage situations where residents refuse life-saving treatment?
EthiS supports EMS decision-makers by equipping their teams through a co-creative process that enables them to find shared and appropriate responses to everyday ethical problems.
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
Faith-based metrics in Impact investing
On the current market, there are no tools that align faith, sustainable development objectives and environmental, social and governance criteria. There is no standardised tool that bridges the gap between faith and finance.
Faith-based metrics offers support to financial and religious players and international organisations in their faith-based finance initiatives, by providing them with the latest scientific research in the field, particularly in terms of developing measurement and evaluation tools.
📆 Autumn 2022 cohort
Green
By 2022, 45% of young people in Switzerland will be choosing to be eco-responsible consumers. Yet local shops are often more expensive than the big chains.
Green is proposing to make eco-responsible products accessible by means of a card worth 20 francs a year, entitling holders to discounts in all types of local shops in the Lausanne region.
This project was supported by BCV as part of the UCreate program.
📆 Autumn 2022 cohort
Grinsight
Government agencies, NGOs and businesses want to move towards a sustainable, low-carbon world, minimising the threats that climate change poses to their operations. However, it is difficult to understand how climate change may threaten an organisation's assets and revenues. Any strategic decision needs to be taken in the most informed way possible, taking into account all possible sources of risk and using all available data.
Grinsight offers to clearly identify the risks and opportunities associated with climate change for different types of organisation. Their consultants can support strategic planning with data-driven information, helping organisations to move towards a low-carbon economy. They can also implement a risk management plan that takes into account the different risks or potential events.
📆 Autumn 2020 cohort
Discover their website:
Hapstick
Post-operative rehabilitation for patients using crutches poses a real problem. Patients often have to do partial weight-bearing, which means that they have to put the right percentage of weight on their injured leg throughout their recovery process.
Hapstick is an innovative solution using smart crutches and a mobile app to collect data and provide live information to patients and physiotherapists.
📆 Spring 2021 cohort
Hippocampus
On average, doctors spend 5 hours a day dealing with administrative tasks, which amounts to 5 to 20 hours of overtime a week. This accumulated fatigue can lead to medical errors, costing the State CHF 30 million a year. What's more, patients are only given an average of fifteen minutes per consultation.
Hippocampus offers an application to increase doctors' efficiency and reduce their overtime, with assisted note-taking, an intelligent task manager and automatic generation of clinical documentation.
📆 Autumn 2022 cohort
Iterator
In the entrepreneurial world, ideas and iterations tend to get lost. Templates and canvas are time-consuming, and feedback is hard to come by.
Iterator helps innovators minimise risk by reducing the time and cost of iterations and increasing the effectiveness of hypothesis testing.
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
Jawslab
80% of biologists have already been unable to reproduce another researcher's experiment. At the same time, 93% of biologists still use a paper notebook, which leads to problems in disseminating information.
Jawslab offers digital assistance to facilitate the organisation and transmission of scientific data in order to increase the reliability of results, through a diary, protocols, a file manager and an electronic notebook.
📆 Spring 2020 cohort
Discover their website:
Le HUB des possibles
More and more of society is becoming aware of the ecological issues at stake, as well as the unpredictable health, energy and geopolitical context.
A number of difficulties are emerging:
- Openness to scientific facts and forecasts is leading to a rise in negative emotions (depression, eco-anxiety, eco-colonialism, etc.).
negative emotions (depression, eco-anxiety, eco-angry, etc.), leading to damaging psycho-social risks. - It's easier to take refuge in daily routine in the face of potential collapse
- Denial, paralysis, a lack of knowledge about the levers for action and/or the force of habit prevent society from mobilising on a large scale.
Le Hub des possibles is a Think-and-Be Tank* designed to support individuals and organisations (businesses, public authorities, non-governmental organisations) in adopting a clear-sighted optimistic stance and taking steps to mobilise environmental and social action.
Discover their TEDx Talk here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkedkA1NaI
Discover their website:
LingoRank
Learning a foreign language can be challenging: it's a time-consuming process, the books are generally unengaging and not personalised. Applications offer irrelevant subjects, the texts are not up to date and there is a certain stagnation over the long term.
LingoRank wants to make learning a new language part of everyday life, by offering articles and videos with integrated translations on areas of interest.
📆 Autumn 2022 cohort
Low Impact Food
By 2050, it will be essential to rethink our consumption of meat products. 593 million more hectares will be required for livestock farming, 7,400 billion more calories will be needed, and this will be equivalent to 11 giga tonnes of additional CO2.
Low Impact Food offers sustainable protein sources with a high positive impact. Innovative, healthy and local insect-based food products.
📆 Spring 2020 cohort
Discover their website:
Maison Jaune
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young men. Of the 674 panelists, 60% consider the subject taboo.
Maison Jaune is a psychological support platform offering a range of personalised solutions designed to put professionals in touch with patients by breaking down mental health taboos with a sense of humour. Several formats are available:
- Le Cabinet, for online psychological counselling
- Le Divan, for counselling by certified psychologists
- Le Bureau, for training programmes run by certified trainers
- La Tablée, with discussion groups
- La Bibliothèque, for informative content
📆 Autumn 2021 cohort
MATIS
There is a growing need for accessible and efficient equipment to support authentication, so as to add vital scientific evidence to their reports. Scientific analysis is dedicated only to works of art of high value, and is expensive, time-consuming and requires transfer to a laboratory, which can damage the works.
MATIS offers an affordable and portable multi-spectral camera for authenticating works of art (paintings, manuscripts, tapestries, etc.), revealing precious information such as intaglio drawings, erased signatures or pigments.
📆 Spring 2022 cohort
🎊 MATIS won CHF 150,000 in November 2022 at the BCN Innovation Awards.
Discover their website here
MBENEFITS
Investment decision support tool, specialising in the evaluation of energy performance and decarbonisation investment projects.
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
Mini Marrow
Patients seeking transfusions face a long and tedious process: they have to wait an average of 4 to 8 months for a consultation, are dependent on expensive treatment and random donations.
Mini Marrow is an in situ, long-term platelet production system as an advanced biomedical therapy for transfusion-dependent patients.
📆 Spring 2021 cohort
Minka
In Bolivia, more than a third of the population lives in poverty, with almost 85% of the labor force working in the informal sector. This makes most of the population vulnerable to cover unforeseen expenses and basic needs.
Minka is the first Bolivian crowdfunding platform that allows individuals in need to raise funds internationally, while increasing transparency and trustworthiness in the campaigns.
Motifs
There are 210,000 illiterate people in French-speaking Switzerland. 50% of them were born and educated here, in the Romandie, and 70% already speak French, but can't write or even read it. A new approach to teaching French is needed.
Thanks to a range of didactic tools and professional expertise, including the creation and development of Phonocolor, Motifs supports trainers in their mission to teach French.
Munay
Of the 8.2 million people living in Latin America, 68,000 are Bolivian women. 87% of them feel they suffer gender discrimination. Access to entrepreneurship is also felt to be much more difficult for women.
Munay is proposing to set up a digital community for Bolivian and Latin American women entrepreneurs, with the aim of giving them knowledge, visibility and easier access to investors.
📆 Autumn 2021 cohort
Mycélium
Science tells us to slow down, yet everything is speeding up. With globalisation and ubiquitous digital technology, our ties to the land are weakening. Philosophers Baptiste Morizot and David Abram talk of a crisis of sensitivity, in other words, a lack of attention to other living things, which could be the cause of the current ecological crisis.
With their new scientific mediation structure, Mycélium offers local authorities and businesses a time for expression and sharing in the open air, in tune with their local area. Outdoor workshops combining scientific, sensory and emotional approaches are on offer. Their mission is to provide a link between Science, Society and Territory by acting as a relay for local and sustainable initiatives.
Discover the project here
📆 Spring 2024 cohort
Mycorhize
Supporting local authorities and businesses in developing a comprehensive, systemic sustainable development strategy.
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
MYMUSEUM
MYMUSEUM is a platform offering a detailed agenda of current museum exhibitions and activities, as well as professional reviews and thematic itineraries between the various institutions. It promotes Swiss museums, where all too often real treasures slumber in anonymity.
NEREUS
Reducing the carbon footprint of university canteens requires the adoption of new, less energy-intensive protein sources.
Spirulina is a superfood rich in protein, nutrients and antioxidants. NEREUS produces fresh spirulina on campus to supply local canteens.
Nuole
To reduce plastic waste, NOW Care offers an alternative powdered shampoo and shower gel which, once mixed with water, has the same benefits as the consumer's favourite products.
🗞️ Nuole won the CHF 5,000 Public Prize at FIT Impact, in May 2024. Find out more here."
Discover their website here
📆 Autumn 2020 cohort
Pakolo
182 million parcels were delivered in Switzerland in 2020, representing 373 kilos of recycled waste per inhabitant per year, 38% of which was cardboard.
Pakolo offers a 100% Swiss-made adjustable and reusable parcel for e-commerce platforms that care about the environment.
📆 Autumn 2021 cohort
Pattes amicales
In Lausanne, there are 9,000 elderly people living alone in one household and 6,000 dogs. What do they have in common? Loneliness.
Our dog-walking service helps lonely seniors and dog owners by organizing walks between elderly people accompanied by dogs and looked after by students.
Pill Scan
It is frequent that a pill is “free of identification” which means that it has been moved out of its packaging, its blister, or put into a pillbox. The difficulty in pill recognition may be problematic to many healthcare professionals, including pharmacists, physicians, nurses, paramedics, family caregivers and patient. It becomes risky and may led to an administration error.
For healthcare professionals, how might we help them avoiding loosing time trying to identify a "free of identification" pill or throwing it away ?
📆 Spring 2024 cohort
Pouss’ensemble
Creating collaborative permaculture gardens for an ecological, social and inclusive transition.
Prevails
It remains difficult to manage and understand medical information - all the more so during the COVID-19 health crisis. Data storage is siloed, and the issue of data protection is central.
Prevails provides a patient genome and phenome database and platform where individuals and scientists can work together to share information that will accelerate the development of precision treatments for COVID and other health conditions.
📆 Spring 2021 cohort
reCOVer-e
In Switzerland, 300,000 people suffer from long covid. Patients in care have to record their various symptoms by hand, which makes analysis difficult and burdensome for therapists.
ReCOVer-e is an application that offers a digital symptom diary that is fast, simple, available and motivating. Data is classified, aggregated and analyzed quickly and easily, for better patient care.
Recyc’link
Helping small, medium-sized and large businesses to manage their waste sustainably by offering them the best possible solution from our network of local service providers.
📆 Spring 2021 cohort
Retr’aide
At present, due to the demographic situation, there are not enough opportunities for our senior citizens to be cared for in suitable structures (EMS, supervised flats, etc.). What's more, opening such facilities has become complex, due to the number of criteria that have to be met and the fact that these institutions are limited at cantonal level. Another way of thinking about this is to increase the independence of elderly people at home as much as possible. This is a social problem, but it also has personal and family implications when the situation arises.
For elderly people who need assistance at home and their families who need support for taking care of them: how might we release the mental charge for families by supporting elderly people needs at home?
📆 Spring 2024 cohort
Safe2eat
30% of people have food allergies and other have food preferences/restrictions (e.g. pregnancy, diet, vegan, vegetarian). Those persons waste time and energy to find suitable and/or safe food products and they usually buy the same products over and over.
For people with food allergies or restrictions, how might we help them select "safe food" while avoiding wasting their time & energy when doing groceries ?
📆 Spring 2024 cohort
SeaStem
SeaStem is an algae industry startup, developing equipment for the algae industry to sustainably improve the seaweed production logistics.
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
Discover the project here
Second Life
Use recycled plastic bricks to build temporary structures.
📆 Spring 2022 cohort
SleepSensor
Sleep disorders are very common and represent an enormous burden for society. To improve diagnosis and monitor the effectiveness of treatments, new methods of recording sleep are needed.
SleepSensor offers a three-level solution:
- A non-intrusive sensor-based system for acquiring physiological data during sleep.
- Machine learning algorithms for signal processing, feature extraction and automatic classification of sleep and wake stages.
- Machine learning algorithms for analysing patient data.
Shanaz has been awarded an Innosuisse grant worth 400,000.- in 2022, and an Innotrek grant worth 100,000.- in 2021.
📆 Spring cohort 2021
Sustainable Landscapes
Coffee and cocoa account for over 90% of the added value of Switzerland's foreign agricultural trade. Yet the subsidiary's companies face challenges in their supply chain due to the harmful effects of other economic activities on the same landscape.
Sustainable Landscapes helps Swiss subsidiary companies to source high-quality coffee and cocoa, by supporting agreements between representatives of economic activities in the landscape to change their practices and reduce harmful effects.
.
Sustainable Science
University labs often accumulate dormant equipment, resulting in wasted resources, inefficient space utilization, and environmental harm. Meanwhile, emerging biotech startups and schools face budget constraints when acquiring new scientific equipment, impacting their research efforts.
How to bridge the gap between the accumulation of dormant equipment in university laboratories and the needs of budget-conscious start-ups ?
Sustainable Science aims to provide a dedicated platform for buying and selling second-hand laboratory equipment. By connecting university labs with environmentally conscious buyers seeking affordable and high-quality equipment, we foster a circular economy within the scientific community, making Science more sustainable.
Rescuing instruments, fueling research!
📆 Spring 2024 cohort
Swappy
People who are increasingly concerned about the environment are finding it hard to find ways of giving their clothes a second life. The current solution of putting unwanted clothes up for sale requires too much effort. From a societal point of view, fast fashion is destroying the environment.
Swappy offers users the chance to send their unwanted clothes to their centre. An online platform makes it possible to buy
second-hand clothes in the same way as with any other online shop.
📆 Autumn 2020 cohort
Terrha
Environmental professionals invest a considerable amount of time in managing geodata, hampering their efficiency. Searching for, formatting and presenting data are complex tasks that monopolise a significant proportion of their precious working time.
terrha offers a digital platform to address the complexity of geodata management. By offering advanced processing tools and access to a centralised database, the aim is to enable professionals to overcome the time challenges associated with their tasks. As a top operational priority, terrha is working to meet the challenges associated with hydrogeology.
Discover their website:
📆 Spring 2023 cohort
TOCx
People with OCD and their families experience a real challenge every day and have difficulty finding support and help due to a shortage of doctors specializing in this area. In addition, few practical resources are available to these people to help them manage these OCDs.
How might we help people with OCD and their families, who have difficulty finding specialist doctors, to be able to manage their OCD independently?
📆 Spring 2024 cohort
Tralala Shop
Many parents have a cellar overflowing with clothes that are too small or other almost new items that they store or end up throwing away even though most of them are almost new and unused. In addition, many parents want to buy their baby/child items second hand, for economic and/or ecological reasons.
How could we help parents of young children free themselves from their children's belongings and be able to easily find new ones?
This project was supported by BCV as part of the UCreate program.
Discover their website here.
📆 Spring 2024 cohort
Tribunaid
Community association offering support, guidance and counselling to people without legal representation.
📆 Spring 2021 cohort
Unidress
The fashion industry accounts for 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. In 20 years, clothing production has increased 400-fold.
Unidress offers a digital platform for the responsible sale and repair of second-hand clothes that prioritises the digital traceability of clothes to reduce the ecological footprint of users. Thanks to its collaborative sharing model, it promotes a local economy while increasing the lifespan of clothes.
📆 Autumn 2021 cohort
Discover their website:
Uniq&
Faced with the challenge of digitalization, second-hand watch retailers are disappearing in favor of large watchmaking groups.
Uniq& offers online sales solutions for second-hand watch dealers. A turnkey e-shop enables existing customers to be served, while a centralized marketplace increases their visibility.
Wimpact
According to a 2019 Allianz Global Investors survey, 75% of savers want to invest sustainably, but only 5% succeed. As it stands, financial products are not convincing, considered too complicated, opaque and unsustainable.
Wimpact offers a vision of finance that serves people and the planet, with the mission of mobilising savers to accelerate the sustainable transition. They offer a positive impact investment platform for savers, ensuring impact, simplicity and transparency.
📆 Spring 2020 cohort
ZeroCarb
The 370,000 SMEs in the services sector need help with their ecological transition. They often feel that they don't have the time to look into these issues, feel that they have done all they can, are not convinced of the real consequences of these measures, or doubt that they can do anything concrete and impactful at their level.
ZeroCarb provides an innovative and accessible carbon emissions calculator for small and medium-sized businesses. It clearly highlights the measures for improving the carbon footprint and the cost involved. Half-yearly monitoring is then offered, as well as publication of the result and its reduction target, as an example to others.
📆 Autumn 2021 cohort
This project was supported by BCV as part of the UCreate program.